Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford
- Published in print:
- 1998
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201243
- eISBN:
- 9780191674846
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201243.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Social History
This chapter seeks to show how politics mattered to women, and women to politics. It begins with a narrative of four queens ruling early modern England, and continues with a survey of women's ...
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This chapter seeks to show how politics mattered to women, and women to politics. It begins with a narrative of four queens ruling early modern England, and continues with a survey of women's participation in the political realm in a diversity of social contexts. A case study of the years 1640–60 explores the range of women's activities during the Civil War period. Political narrative, which remains the dominant mode of historical writing for the early modern period, has been resistant to the inclusion of gender as an analytical category. At the end of the seventeenth century, despite the exclusion of female sex from liberal theories of social contract, women continued to be active in both mass and elite politics.Less
This chapter seeks to show how politics mattered to women, and women to politics. It begins with a narrative of four queens ruling early modern England, and continues with a survey of women's participation in the political realm in a diversity of social contexts. A case study of the years 1640–60 explores the range of women's activities during the Civil War period. Political narrative, which remains the dominant mode of historical writing for the early modern period, has been resistant to the inclusion of gender as an analytical category. At the end of the seventeenth century, despite the exclusion of female sex from liberal theories of social contract, women continued to be active in both mass and elite politics.
Jonathan Lamb
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198182641
- eISBN:
- 9780191673849
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198182641.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 18th-century Literature
This chapter argues that the vulnerability to interruption exhibited in political narratives of the mid-century is an index of the longevity of the desire for a principled and systematic discourse. ...
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This chapter argues that the vulnerability to interruption exhibited in political narratives of the mid-century is an index of the longevity of the desire for a principled and systematic discourse. It is the genius of patriotic eloquence, however, to have adapted the terms of superior principle — self-denial, civic humanism, unconditional love of country, and so on — to the situational pragmatics of daily political manoeuvring without ever being decisively interrupted and embarrassed by the charge of hypocrisy. Its success must be owing in part to the speed with which it allowed its exponents to dodge and outstrip adversaries committed to bulkier trains of ideas and less swiftly exchanged sets of values.Less
This chapter argues that the vulnerability to interruption exhibited in political narratives of the mid-century is an index of the longevity of the desire for a principled and systematic discourse. It is the genius of patriotic eloquence, however, to have adapted the terms of superior principle — self-denial, civic humanism, unconditional love of country, and so on — to the situational pragmatics of daily political manoeuvring without ever being decisively interrupted and embarrassed by the charge of hypocrisy. Its success must be owing in part to the speed with which it allowed its exponents to dodge and outstrip adversaries committed to bulkier trains of ideas and less swiftly exchanged sets of values.
Bart van Es
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199249701
- eISBN:
- 9780191719332
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199249701.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
This chapter examines a possible solution to the problems presented by the first chapter. It shows the importance of chorography for both historiographic and political debate. Following an analysis ...
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This chapter examines a possible solution to the problems presented by the first chapter. It shows the importance of chorography for both historiographic and political debate. Following an analysis of various chorographic texts, it demonstrates how the same structures appear in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene as well as in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe and Prothalamion. It explains that these structures have an unusual capacity for absorbing rival voices. It discusses that through the combination of land and history they gave Spenser freedoms not to be found within the confines of chronicle. It shows that readings of Spenser's river passages expose an alliance between historical and political narratives. It adds that particularly, the poet can be revealed to have used rivers with exceptional subtlety to connect ancient history with current colonial endeavor.Less
This chapter examines a possible solution to the problems presented by the first chapter. It shows the importance of chorography for both historiographic and political debate. Following an analysis of various chorographic texts, it demonstrates how the same structures appear in Books III and IV of The Faerie Queene as well as in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe and Prothalamion. It explains that these structures have an unusual capacity for absorbing rival voices. It discusses that through the combination of land and history they gave Spenser freedoms not to be found within the confines of chronicle. It shows that readings of Spenser's river passages expose an alliance between historical and political narratives. It adds that particularly, the poet can be revealed to have used rivers with exceptional subtlety to connect ancient history with current colonial endeavor.
Molly Andrews
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199812394
- eISBN:
- 9780199388554
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199812394.001.0001
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
This book explores how stories and imagination come together in our daily lives, influencing our thoughts not only about what we see and do, but also our contemplation of what is possible and its ...
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This book explores how stories and imagination come together in our daily lives, influencing our thoughts not only about what we see and do, but also our contemplation of what is possible and its limitations. Beginning with the premise that stories are central to the way in which individuals and communities negotiate their identities, the book examines different ‘ordinary’ settings in which we construct who we are, and who we are not—central problems of everyday life. Combining scholarly research with personal experience, this book examines the critical role of imagination in how we accomplish this task. What kinds of narratives do we anticipate, and how does this affect how we construct ‘reality’. What happens when we meet the unexpected? Imagining other possible lives directs us to ruminate on what it means to be human and the world we might create.Less
This book explores how stories and imagination come together in our daily lives, influencing our thoughts not only about what we see and do, but also our contemplation of what is possible and its limitations. Beginning with the premise that stories are central to the way in which individuals and communities negotiate their identities, the book examines different ‘ordinary’ settings in which we construct who we are, and who we are not—central problems of everyday life. Combining scholarly research with personal experience, this book examines the critical role of imagination in how we accomplish this task. What kinds of narratives do we anticipate, and how does this affect how we construct ‘reality’. What happens when we meet the unexpected? Imagining other possible lives directs us to ruminate on what it means to be human and the world we might create.
Molly Andrews
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199812394
- eISBN:
- 9780199388554
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199812394.003.0005
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology
Chapter 5 explores the role of imagination in political narratives, tracing the connections between personal narrative and social change. Using the case study of Obama’s strategic use of stories, the ...
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Chapter 5 explores the role of imagination in political narratives, tracing the connections between personal narrative and social change. Using the case study of Obama’s strategic use of stories, the chapter develops a theoretical model of political narratives, arguing for their central importance in analysing formal and informal politics. The chapter explores the changing life of national stories, examining how each generation re-invents for itself national narratives, re-positioning them within its own frames of reference and bestowing them with a revitalised sense purpose. The chapter examines the role of political narratives as a tool for re-imagining citizenship.Less
Chapter 5 explores the role of imagination in political narratives, tracing the connections between personal narrative and social change. Using the case study of Obama’s strategic use of stories, the chapter develops a theoretical model of political narratives, arguing for their central importance in analysing formal and informal politics. The chapter explores the changing life of national stories, examining how each generation re-invents for itself national narratives, re-positioning them within its own frames of reference and bestowing them with a revitalised sense purpose. The chapter examines the role of political narratives as a tool for re-imagining citizenship.
Peter Lake
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300222715
- eISBN:
- 9780300225662
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300222715.003.0027
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This introductory chapter provides an outline of some of the ideological, political, and institutional structures and contexts within which the plays under discussion in this study were produced and ...
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This introductory chapter provides an outline of some of the ideological, political, and institutional structures and contexts within which the plays under discussion in this study were produced and consumed. Shakespeare's stagings of history were peculiarly intense in their concentration on the doings of kings and princes. In an emergently absolutist personal monarchy and during a period in which issues of succession and legitimacy were much on people's minds, plays that were so insistently about kings and queens were also quintessentially political plays. As a great deal of recent work has shown, such political concerns could well structure and, in their turn, be structured by, parallel sets of concerns and beliefs about the workings of the social order and the gender hierarchy. Political narratives then became useful ways to figure and interrogate the dynamics of economic exchange and value determined by the market or the workings of the gender hierarchy.Less
This introductory chapter provides an outline of some of the ideological, political, and institutional structures and contexts within which the plays under discussion in this study were produced and consumed. Shakespeare's stagings of history were peculiarly intense in their concentration on the doings of kings and princes. In an emergently absolutist personal monarchy and during a period in which issues of succession and legitimacy were much on people's minds, plays that were so insistently about kings and queens were also quintessentially political plays. As a great deal of recent work has shown, such political concerns could well structure and, in their turn, be structured by, parallel sets of concerns and beliefs about the workings of the social order and the gender hierarchy. Political narratives then became useful ways to figure and interrogate the dynamics of economic exchange and value determined by the market or the workings of the gender hierarchy.
Christian McCrea
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781911325826
- eISBN:
- 9781800342446
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781911325826.003.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter focuses on David Lynch's 1984 film version of Dune. It analyses Dune's narrative structure, characterisations, its approach to science fiction, and audiovisual language that are all ...
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This chapter focuses on David Lynch's 1984 film version of Dune. It analyses Dune's narrative structure, characterisations, its approach to science fiction, and audiovisual language that are all highly idiosyncratic. It also illustrates Dune as an audacious science-fiction film that refuses to be futuristic, as a political narrative that is undone by the power of prophecy and dream, and as an adventure story structured like a poem. The chapter talks about the feeling of watching Dune, which is described as being unmoored from cinema itself and free-floating in the form's infinite, unexplored possibilities. It explores the core elements of Frank Herbert's novel version of Dune, which is heavily reliant on its own internal logic.Less
This chapter focuses on David Lynch's 1984 film version of Dune. It analyses Dune's narrative structure, characterisations, its approach to science fiction, and audiovisual language that are all highly idiosyncratic. It also illustrates Dune as an audacious science-fiction film that refuses to be futuristic, as a political narrative that is undone by the power of prophecy and dream, and as an adventure story structured like a poem. The chapter talks about the feeling of watching Dune, which is described as being unmoored from cinema itself and free-floating in the form's infinite, unexplored possibilities. It explores the core elements of Frank Herbert's novel version of Dune, which is heavily reliant on its own internal logic.
John Seed
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748621514
- eISBN:
- 9780748651306
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748621514.003.0003
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter turns away from Dissenting histories to David Hume's History of England (1754–63) and its hostile account of the role of the Puritans in England's seventeenth-century crisis. Histories ...
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This chapter turns away from Dissenting histories to David Hume's History of England (1754–63) and its hostile account of the role of the Puritans in England's seventeenth-century crisis. Histories and memories of the seventeenth century, and in particular of the wickedness of Puritan fanatics, were reproduced by the most powerful cultural institution of Hanoverian England: the Church of England. The chapter goes on to consider ways in which the Church, with the imprimatur of the State, diffused a particular version of the seventeenth century to a wider population. There are convergences between this ‘official’ perspective and that of Hume's History of England. Both contribute to a political narrative of the nation in which the Puritan tradition is dismissed as pathological or anathematised as subversive.Less
This chapter turns away from Dissenting histories to David Hume's History of England (1754–63) and its hostile account of the role of the Puritans in England's seventeenth-century crisis. Histories and memories of the seventeenth century, and in particular of the wickedness of Puritan fanatics, were reproduced by the most powerful cultural institution of Hanoverian England: the Church of England. The chapter goes on to consider ways in which the Church, with the imprimatur of the State, diffused a particular version of the seventeenth century to a wider population. There are convergences between this ‘official’ perspective and that of Hume's History of England. Both contribute to a political narrative of the nation in which the Puritan tradition is dismissed as pathological or anathematised as subversive.
Graham Dawson, Jo Dover, and Stephen Hopkins (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780719096310
- eISBN:
- 9781526120809
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719096310.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
For the three decades of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ (1968–98), the United Kingdom experienced within its borders a profound and polarizing conflict. Yet relatively little research has addressed ...
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For the three decades of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ (1968–98), the United Kingdom experienced within its borders a profound and polarizing conflict. Yet relatively little research has addressed the complex effects, legacies and memories of this conflict in Britain. It occupies a marginal position in British social, cultural and political history, and the experiences and understandings of those in or from Britain who fought in it, were injured or harmed by it, or campaigned against it, have been neglected both in wider scholarship and in public policy. In the peace process since 1994, British initiatives towards ‘post-conflict’ remembering have been limited and fragmented.
This ground-breaking book provides the first comprehensive investigation of the history and memory of the Troubles in Britain. It examines the impacts of the conflict upon individual lives, political and social relationships, communities and culture in Britain; and explores how the people of Britain (including its Irish communities) have responded to, and engaged with the conflict, in the context of contested political narratives produced by the State and its opponents.Setting an agenda for further research and public debate, the book demonstrates that ‘unfinished business’ from the conflicted past persists unaddressed in Britain; and advocates the importance of acknowledging legacies, understanding histories, and engaging with memories in the context of peace-building and reconciliation. Contributors include scholars from a wide range of disciplines (social, political and cultural history; politics; media, film and cultural studies; law; literature; performing arts; sociology; peace studies); activists, artists, writers and peace-builders; and people with direct personal experience of the conflict.Less
For the three decades of the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ (1968–98), the United Kingdom experienced within its borders a profound and polarizing conflict. Yet relatively little research has addressed the complex effects, legacies and memories of this conflict in Britain. It occupies a marginal position in British social, cultural and political history, and the experiences and understandings of those in or from Britain who fought in it, were injured or harmed by it, or campaigned against it, have been neglected both in wider scholarship and in public policy. In the peace process since 1994, British initiatives towards ‘post-conflict’ remembering have been limited and fragmented.
This ground-breaking book provides the first comprehensive investigation of the history and memory of the Troubles in Britain. It examines the impacts of the conflict upon individual lives, political and social relationships, communities and culture in Britain; and explores how the people of Britain (including its Irish communities) have responded to, and engaged with the conflict, in the context of contested political narratives produced by the State and its opponents.Setting an agenda for further research and public debate, the book demonstrates that ‘unfinished business’ from the conflicted past persists unaddressed in Britain; and advocates the importance of acknowledging legacies, understanding histories, and engaging with memories in the context of peace-building and reconciliation. Contributors include scholars from a wide range of disciplines (social, political and cultural history; politics; media, film and cultural studies; law; literature; performing arts; sociology; peace studies); activists, artists, writers and peace-builders; and people with direct personal experience of the conflict.
Marina Dekavalla
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780748696581
- eISBN:
- 9781474418829
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696581.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, UK Politics
This chapter adopts a partly theoretical approach to analysis of the discourse of Scottish press narratives on independence, focusing particularly on editorial coverage and detailing accounts from ...
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This chapter adopts a partly theoretical approach to analysis of the discourse of Scottish press narratives on independence, focusing particularly on editorial coverage and detailing accounts from five daily morning and five Sunday titles. The approach utilizes Greimas’s work on narrative semiotics, and considers tropes in Scottish press accounts such as The Quest for Change and The Quest for Independence. In this manner the analysis finds consistent underlying meanings in the press narratives it examines, but likewise discovers coherence associated with the ‘change’ model, with increased devolution apparently seen by both press and public as a safer route to change than independence.Less
This chapter adopts a partly theoretical approach to analysis of the discourse of Scottish press narratives on independence, focusing particularly on editorial coverage and detailing accounts from five daily morning and five Sunday titles. The approach utilizes Greimas’s work on narrative semiotics, and considers tropes in Scottish press accounts such as The Quest for Change and The Quest for Independence. In this manner the analysis finds consistent underlying meanings in the press narratives it examines, but likewise discovers coherence associated with the ‘change’ model, with increased devolution apparently seen by both press and public as a safer route to change than independence.
Sean Akerman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- June 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190851712
- eISBN:
- 9780190851743
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190851712.003.0004
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
Chapter 3 focuses on voice—in particular, how personal narratives become embedded in a political voice for many exiled groups. The author illustrates this tangled relationship in his fieldwork and ...
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Chapter 3 focuses on voice—in particular, how personal narratives become embedded in a political voice for many exiled groups. The author illustrates this tangled relationship in his fieldwork and then elaborates on it through the work of scholars who have written on the Harkis of France and on refugees in South Sudan. What becomes clear in these accounts is that personal narratives of exile provide a challenge to the understanding of what a narrative account means by the degree of a narrator’s investment in audience, testimony, witnessing, and a need to speak with unquestioned authority. The author also considers the narrative form many of these accounts take: hope.Less
Chapter 3 focuses on voice—in particular, how personal narratives become embedded in a political voice for many exiled groups. The author illustrates this tangled relationship in his fieldwork and then elaborates on it through the work of scholars who have written on the Harkis of France and on refugees in South Sudan. What becomes clear in these accounts is that personal narratives of exile provide a challenge to the understanding of what a narrative account means by the degree of a narrator’s investment in audience, testimony, witnessing, and a need to speak with unquestioned authority. The author also considers the narrative form many of these accounts take: hope.
Nachman Ben-Yehuda
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226450582
- eISBN:
- 9780226450643
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226450643.003.0009
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
This chapter examines the connection between politics and archaeology in relation to the main excavations in Masada during 1963–1965 headed by Yigael Yadin. It suggests that Yadin and others ...
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This chapter examines the connection between politics and archaeology in relation to the main excavations in Masada during 1963–1965 headed by Yigael Yadin. It suggests that Yadin and others constructed interpretations for Masada that supported the Masada mythical narrative, which is a political ideological narrative. This was accomplished by contextualizing the findings within the mythical narrative.Less
This chapter examines the connection between politics and archaeology in relation to the main excavations in Masada during 1963–1965 headed by Yigael Yadin. It suggests that Yadin and others constructed interpretations for Masada that supported the Masada mythical narrative, which is a political ideological narrative. This was accomplished by contextualizing the findings within the mythical narrative.
Molly Andrews
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- October 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780190864750
- eISBN:
- 9780190864781
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190864750.003.0002
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
What stories are told, and ultimately tellable, has consequences for our ability to imagine the world otherwise. This chapter examines in-depth a particular story told 25 years in retrospect by an ...
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What stories are told, and ultimately tellable, has consequences for our ability to imagine the world otherwise. This chapter examines in-depth a particular story told 25 years in retrospect by an East German dissident about a book that he had hidden from the Stasi and that ultimately disappeared. After the wall opened, the narrator reads his Stasi file. Most remarkable to him was what was not there: there was no mention of the stolen book. The narrator invites me, his listener, into a world of intrigue where the stakes are high. Despite not knowing how the book disappeared, it is clear that with its discovery, he could have been jailed for years. The story hinges on a moment in which the narrator was not present and requires a leap from both teller and audience. Ultimately, it delivers its punch from a contemplation of what did not happen, an alternative imagined (yet once fully possible) future that would have followed on the heels of any official reporting of the hidden book. The story conveys much about the dissident, even while it offers insight into a world beyond any one individualLess
What stories are told, and ultimately tellable, has consequences for our ability to imagine the world otherwise. This chapter examines in-depth a particular story told 25 years in retrospect by an East German dissident about a book that he had hidden from the Stasi and that ultimately disappeared. After the wall opened, the narrator reads his Stasi file. Most remarkable to him was what was not there: there was no mention of the stolen book. The narrator invites me, his listener, into a world of intrigue where the stakes are high. Despite not knowing how the book disappeared, it is clear that with its discovery, he could have been jailed for years. The story hinges on a moment in which the narrator was not present and requires a leap from both teller and audience. Ultimately, it delivers its punch from a contemplation of what did not happen, an alternative imagined (yet once fully possible) future that would have followed on the heels of any official reporting of the hidden book. The story conveys much about the dissident, even while it offers insight into a world beyond any one individual
James Donald
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199354016
- eISBN:
- 9780199354047
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199354016.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter examines the politics of Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker: less their beliefs, than the way they performed politics. Several “performances” by Robeson are discussed, most notably his ...
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This chapter examines the politics of Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker: less their beliefs, than the way they performed politics. Several “performances” by Robeson are discussed, most notably his commitment to Soviet-led internationalism at a rally to support the Spanish Republic in 1936 and his appearance before HUAC in Cold War Washington. His uneasy relationship with Stalinism and the United States is examined, as is the damage to his mental health. Baker became increasingly active in her antiracism and, dressed in her Free French uniform, she spoke at the March on Washington in 1963. These performances are discussed in relation to the paradigmatic political narratives of the epic or romantic, the tragic, and the comic. Whereas Robeson’s later political career may be seen as tragic, Baker’s performance in Washington increasingly had a comic edge to it: one that foreshadows a more modest, less hubristic, and less psychologically damaging version of political engagement.Less
This chapter examines the politics of Paul Robeson and Josephine Baker: less their beliefs, than the way they performed politics. Several “performances” by Robeson are discussed, most notably his commitment to Soviet-led internationalism at a rally to support the Spanish Republic in 1936 and his appearance before HUAC in Cold War Washington. His uneasy relationship with Stalinism and the United States is examined, as is the damage to his mental health. Baker became increasingly active in her antiracism and, dressed in her Free French uniform, she spoke at the March on Washington in 1963. These performances are discussed in relation to the paradigmatic political narratives of the epic or romantic, the tragic, and the comic. Whereas Robeson’s later political career may be seen as tragic, Baker’s performance in Washington increasingly had a comic edge to it: one that foreshadows a more modest, less hubristic, and less psychologically damaging version of political engagement.
Philip Auerswald
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199795178
- eISBN:
- 9780190258481
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199795178.003.0014
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Innovation
This chapter describes prosperity on a global scale with focus on the political narrative in the United States. It illustrates significant narratives of domestic doom that relate to exaggerated ...
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This chapter describes prosperity on a global scale with focus on the political narrative in the United States. It illustrates significant narratives of domestic doom that relate to exaggerated external and internal threats, which led to miscalibrated and self-destructive responses. One case of external threat is the 9/11 attacks. What resulted after the attacks were a pair of foreign wars whose cost exceeded a trillion dollars, the reversal of five decades of government prohibition against torture, and unprecedented intrusions into the civil liberties of US citizens.Less
This chapter describes prosperity on a global scale with focus on the political narrative in the United States. It illustrates significant narratives of domestic doom that relate to exaggerated external and internal threats, which led to miscalibrated and self-destructive responses. One case of external threat is the 9/11 attacks. What resulted after the attacks were a pair of foreign wars whose cost exceeded a trillion dollars, the reversal of five decades of government prohibition against torture, and unprecedented intrusions into the civil liberties of US citizens.