...Annabelle Wagner Bergfeld Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 OUR AGE S DROWSY BLOOD ANNABELLE WAGNER BERGFELD THE OTHER NIGHT I attended a dinner made possible by one of the phenomena of our time. Presumably by its own volition, a dot was being removed from the roster...

...Dennis E. Showalter Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 A River of Blood and Time: Images of Jewish-Gentile Relations in Contemporary Pulp Culture Dennis E. Showalter Analysis of the Jewish place in American society has generated the spilling of gallons of ink and the setting...

... into the blood of the Egyptian national identity. Thus, this essay deals with modernity in translation in the postcolonial zone and contributes to the effort to highlight the artistic activity in the Muslim world in the twentieth century—a century that has been mainly defined as Western and usually excludes any...

... the Is the Negro to Remain Black 241 process of fusion has been completed without trace. The pro­ cess of race fusion is of no sociological importance beyond the time when the brand of bastardy begets an unfavorable social opinion. What boots it how the Anglo-Saxon came to be; whether the original fusion of blood...

... of justices, the vestments of bishops, the uniforms of generals. Nor are they simplified figures from historical legend. The Judge Jeffreys of Captain Blood is an example of the latter. Not only in legend but also in Macaulay and those historians who, into the twentieth cen­ tury, wrote under the influence...

... by Southern and Northern blood, in defence of Civilization itself. I propose, in this course of lectures, to set before you, as fellow citizens with me of our dearly loved country, some of * The first of a course of three lectures on the John McTyeire Flowers Founda­ tion, given at Trinity College in May...

... tainted blood. Longfellow, Lowell, and others waxed mildly poetic upon this idea, but in the novels the thesis is well-nigh paramount. Turned to many moods, it is sordid in Hildreth s Archy Moore, first important work of this class, sentimental in Mrs. South­ worth s Retribution, spectacular in Boucicault...

..., and on Lido Beach. A week before the biennial officially opened, Margolles mapped these crime scenes onto the U.S. Pavil- ion, covering the entrance with blood-­stained fabrics from crime scenes...

... a paradigm for racism, one which contains a curious set of ambivalences and ironies. Originally inspired by the killing of their own flesh and blood, Indian haters generalize their personal grievance into a racial conflict and ultimately out-Indian the Indian in revenge. They exist like metaphoric half...

..., Ecuador, and Peru. The arguments for these various migrations are based upon intricate technical evidence: cranial and skeletal measurements, skin and hair coloring, existence or absence of Oriental eyefolds, types of blood, language and language concepts, artifacts and tools. Considerable consternation...

... of the most important features of these conceptions of citizenship was the lack 15 of interest in the idea of the nation as a community of descent. In other words, these theories did not tend to elaborate a mythology of shared blood as the basis...

... the negro question I wish to place before the reader certain cold-blooded facts and certain undeniable tendencies which show how deceptive are those soul-soothing statements now current among publicists as to the relations between the blacks and the whites of America. As a teacher of English it frequently...

... Quarterly • Summer 2011 Figure 1. Lynette Seelmeyer, “True Blood,” Rock n’ Roll Bride, December 4, 2009, www.rocknrollbride.com/2009/12/true-­blood/ wedding dresses again work against these normative cultural conventions. For instance, Hayley conventionally displays her engagement and wedding...

... a wonderful article on this topic ‘‘My mother is a pure-blood Albenian ‘‘My father is a pure-blood Georgian ‘‘As for me, I am a pure-blood Turk ‘‘I am totally confused. My family will let me go to university only if I wear the headscarf, and thestatewillletmeonlyifIdon’t ‘‘As a GERMAN...

..., N. C. Believing from available accounts that it must be an infectious disease, and, further, from its generalized nature that the organism was most likely to multiply in the blood, the writer concluded that a thor­ ough examination of such blood with the high powers of the microscope would be likely...

... mixture of blood in the race was relatively small and that while the English-speaking people are Restriction of European Immigration and Concept of Race 27 derived through different channels, no doubt there is among them, nonetheless, an overwhelming preponderance of the same race stock...

... possesses a magic quality: it is the only sword which can be used effectively against Grendel s mother. In addition to conventional weapons, the blood of these creatures is supematurally potent. The blood of the Geatish dragon fatally poisons its victims, and perhaps even more powerful than the dragon s...

...-balanced seriocomic novel, Through the Fields of Clover (1961), there enters a period of variety. The Blood of the Lamb (1962) is almost unrelieved tragedy. Reuben, Reuben (1964) is serious fare mixing both tragedy and comedy. Let Me Count the Ways (1965) reverts superbly to the earlier manner...

... of the heart, the peristaltis of the intestine, the elasticity of the walls of the blood vessels, the control of the sugar content in the blood, of the rate of oxidation of foods for the production of energy, of the rate of growth, rhythmic cycles of reproductive phe­ nomena, all lie outside the realm...

... by Du Bois as follows: “Have we in America a distinct mission as a race—a distinct sphere of action and an opportunity for race develop- ment, or is self-obliteration the highest end to which Negro blood dare aspire?”2 It is with reference to this dichotomy, either a distinct mission...