Bøger om År 1920 til 1929

This book explores Toni Morrison¿s strategic negotiation of the essentialism/anti-essentialism dialectic regarding the representation of African American female subjectivity, the rewriting of African American history, and the re-appropriation of African American musical aesthetics in fiction. It also examines how Morrison¿s dual-stance positioning demonstrates the conscious strategy of achieving the double goal of recovering African American and female voices as well as of critiquing hegemonic cultural logics about race and gender. The book argues that the motivations behind Morrison¿s dialectic accommodation of the two stances in her fiction, namely The Bluest Eye, Sula, ¿Recitatif¿, Jazz, and Paradise, are related to her strategic positioning that offers fruitful possibilities for mediating affirmations of difference and the necessity of racial, gender and cultural group politics.

The Breaf Historical Sketch covers the historical development of Ukraine Statehood in the ¿¿ - at the beginning of the ¿¿¿ century. The material is represented relying on historical sources, and contemporary scientific research of domestic and foreign historiography, latest scientific and methodical achievements. The manual discusses various aspects and perspectives of society in socio-economic relations and national development of Ukraine.

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio propose une perception de la réalité et de ce qui s¿y trouve au-delà. Le rationnel, l'irrationnel et le transrationnel sont foncièrement liés à l¿écriture de cet auteur. Une écriture d¿où s¿échappe une philosophie de l¿existence dans ses certitudes et ses incertitudes. L¿écriture de Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio est une écriture marquée par la réflexion, par le questionnement perpétuel. On peut même dire qüil s¿agit d¿une écriture aux frontières des réflexions humaines dans leurs rapports à la connaissance et à la vérité. Les questions s¿empilent ainsi dans les romans lecléziens et témoignent d¿une sorte d¿inquiétude répétée qui traverse les récits et les personnages.

This deluxe box-set brings together selected novels, novellas and short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, contained in five clothbound volumes with foil stamping. Fitzgerald is considered one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century, celebrated for his penetrating and moving depictions of the Jazz Age. This beautiful slipcased collection contains his most iconic works such as The Great Gatsby and The Beautiful and Damned alongside lesser-known gems including 'The Offshore Pirate' and 'Ice Palace'. Includes: - The Great Gatsby - This Side of Paradise - The Beautiful and Damned - Flappers and Philosophers >Showcasing the variety and depth of Fitzgerald's genius, this box set makes a wonderful collectible of gift for any literature lover. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Collector's Classics series are high-quality, clothbound box-sets of classic works of literature. With elegant embossed cover-designs and colored endpapers, these editions make wonderful gifts or collectibles to treasure forever.

The First Russian Art Exhibition (Erste Russische Kunstausstellung), which opened at the Galerie van Diemen in Berlin on October 15, 1922, and later travelled to Amsterdam, introduced a broad Western audience to the most recent artistic developments in Russia. The extensive show - more than a thousand works, including paintings, graphic works, sculptures, stage designs, architectural models, and works of porcelain - was remarkably inclusive in its scope, which ranged from traditional figurative painting to the latest constructions of the Russian avant-garde. Coming on the heels of the Treaty of Rapallo, the exhibition was a first cultural step towards bilateral relations between two young and yet internationally isolated new states - the Weimar Republic and the Russian Soviet Republic. Moving away from the narrow focus on the avant-garde, the volume presents new research that examines the exhibition's broader historical scope and cultural implications. The reception of the exhibition within artistic circles in Germany, Europe, the United States, and Japan in the 1920s is addressed, as well as the disposition of many of the works exhibited. The combination of longer, thematic essays and short features, along with reproductions of newly identified works and a selection of unpublished archival materials make this book valuable to both a scholarly and a general readership.

The horrors of World War I left a mark on all of Europe as well as on the United States of America. Within the political, intellectual and academic life the catchphrase of international good will established itself. This term, rather this vision, must not be ignored in the context of the birth hour of the Austro-American Institute of Education, when international education was still in its infancy. The institute¿s founder, Paul Leo Dengler, seized an opportunity presented to him at the end of 1925 ¿ apparently just in time amidst the pioneering spirit following World War I ¿ to propose and present his Amerika-Institut in Vienna to leaders of the Institute of International Education in New York. Eventually, in March of 1926 the Austro-American Institute of Education (AAIE) was founded in Vienna.The idea of a comprehensive history of the AAIE is to shed light on the evolvement of some of the most significant intellectual forces that have been shaping international cultural relations over the past century.Volume I of AAIE¿s history takes a close look at the activities, programs, key-players and the bilateral mission of Dengler¿s institute during the years 1926¿¿1971.

M. T. Vasudevan Nair¿s much acclaimed novel Randamoozham is a retelling of the ancient epic the Mahabharata based on the perspective of Bhima, the second Pandava. Bhima, Lone Warrior is the English translation of the work by Gita Krishnankutty. Possessed of amazing strength, fierce loyalty and great tenderness, Bhima is almost always eclipsed by his brothers Yudhishtira and Arjuna. The title wholly signifies his helplessness as a second born. This dissertation entitled Mind Mapping Bhima: A Freudian Psychoanalytic Reading of M. T. Vasudevan Nair¿s Bhima, Lone Warrior, aims to have a psychoanalytic reading of the protagonist Bhima with the help of Freudian concepts and theories. The key idea is conveyed through three core chapters. The first chapter, ¿Journey through the Retellings of the Mahabharatä examines the genre ¿epic¿ with special mention about the Indian epic, the Mahabharata. Moreover, an introduction about retellings and how they reshape the traditional outlook regarding epics are given. Some prominent retellings of the Mahabharata including M. T. Vasudevan Nair¿s Randamoozham are discussed here.

Diane Glancy once again puts Indigenous women at the center of American history in her account of a young Inupiat woman who survived a treacherous arctic expedition alone. In September 1921, a young Inupiat woman named Ada Blackjack traveled to Wrangel Island, 200 miles off the Arctic Coast of Siberia, as a cook and seamstress, along with four professional explorers. The expedition did not go as planned. When a rescue ship finally broke through the ice two years later, she was the only survivor. Diane Glancy discovered Blackjack's diary in the Dartmouth archives and created a new narrative based on the historical record and her vision of this woman's extraordinary life. She tells the story of a woman facing danger, loss, and unimaginable hardship, yet surviving against the odds where four "experts" could not. Beyond the expedition, the story examines Blackjack's childhood experiences at an Indian residential school, her struggles as a mother and wife, and the faith that enabled her to survive alone on a remote island in the Arctic Sea. Glancy's creative telling of this heroic tale is a high mark in her award-winning hybrid investigations of suffering, identity, and Native American history.