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Performing Empire: Theater and Colonialism in Caroline Link's Nirgendwo in Afrika [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In Caroline Link's popular 2001 film Nirgendwo in Afrika, a Jewish family fleeing the Holocaust finds refuge in British-controlled Kenya. Theater plays a crucial role in the film: Members of the Redlich family explicitly call upon one another to engage ...
Erickson, Peter
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Making Progress: Ellison, Rinehart, and the Critic

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2015
Since Ralph Ellison’s death, the draft materials of his second, unfinished novel have become available, in addition to his notes for Invisible Man (1952).
Cheryl Alison
doaj   +1 more source

Ellison’s White Liberal Rhinehart: the Negro American Core of Book I of Three Days Before The Shooting… [PDF]

open access: yesЛитература двух Америк, 2018
Composed over a nearly twenty-year period following Brown v. Board of Education, Book I of Three Days Before the Shooting… renders an intricate narrative of the identification with blackness, and subsequent ideological transformation, required of white ...
Benji de la Piedra
doaj   +1 more source

"I Believe in Nothing If Not in Action": African American Humanism and (Embodied) Agency

open access: yesCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies, 2016
This article explores African American humanism and reflects on its relationship with Enlightenment humanism, anti-, and posthumanism. It regards African American humanism as an alternative to these philosophies based on an analysis of Ralph Ellison’s ...
Alexandra Hartmann
doaj   +1 more source

Alienated, Anxious, American: The Crisis of Coming of Age in Ralph Ellison’s 'Invisible Man' and the Late Harlem Bildungsroman [PDF]

open access: yesLimina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2014
Themes of fear and loathing are often associated with the narrative trajectory of the twentieth century American Bildungsroman. In the traditional European prototype, coming-of-age is charted through the representation of ordeals and life lessons which ...
Tamlyn E. Avery
doaj  

Habiter le monde avec des sons

open access: yesGéographie et Cultures, 2010
In the history of Afro-American culture, music has always occupied a special place. Black writers, artists, philosophers and sociologists etc. have all felt obliged to pay their debt to or set their aesthetic goals based on music’s achievements.
Emmanuel Parent
doaj   +1 more source

Record the track and track the record: On the call‐and‐response dynamics in Hip Hop practice

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract Call‐and‐response has primarily been studied in Black Atlantic artistic traditions. We transpose call‐and‐response dynamics to the writing and recording process of a Hip Hop studio session. Combining collaborative autoethnography with formal analysis and using Communication Accommodation Theory's conceptual parameters of conscious and ...
Dastan Abdali, Steven Gilbers
wiley   +1 more source

Age and ethnic differences in volumetric breast density in new zealand women: a cross-sectional study. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2013
Breast cancer incidence differs by ethnicity in New Zealand (NZ) with Māori (the indigenous people) women having the highest rates followed by Pakeha (people primarily of British/European descent), Pacific and Asian women, who experience the lowest rates.
Lis Ellison-Loschmann   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pimps, Star Chambers, Ratbags, and Westphalians: The Rhetoric of Reaction and Racial Discrimination in Australia, 1975–1995

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 71, Issue 4, Page 669-700, December 2025.
Australian public debates about race have featured intense contests about free speech and identity, including about the federal Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). While these developments may be understood as reflecting the contemporary ascendency of “culture war” politics, they may in fact follow a familiar pattern of political contestation around ...
Tim Soutphommasane   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

FROM MILAN TO WEST BERLIN: SPATIAL ALIENATION AND THE POST‐1945 ANXIOGENIC CITYSCAPE IN ANNA MARIA ORTESE'S SILENZIO A MILANO AND INGEBORG BACHMANN'S ‘EIN ORT FÜR ZUFÄLLE’

open access: yesGerman Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 4, Page 544-566, October 2025.
ABSTRACT This article examines Anna Maria Ortese's collection of journalistic reportages and short stories, Silenzio a Milano (Silence in Milan, 1958), and Ingeborg Bachmann's speech ‘Ein Ort für Zufälle’ (17 October 1964). It focuses on their topophobic images of Milan and West Berlin, the anxious representations of these post‐1945 urban landscapes ...
Roberto Interdonato
wiley   +1 more source

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