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...John Engle Mostly dismissed as a trivial entertainment, Frederick Kohner’s Gidget: The Little Girl with Big Ideas (1957) is in fact a telling aesthetic and cultural document. University of Vienna PhD, Jewish exile from Nazi Germany, and successful Hollywood screenwriter Kohner empathetically...

...Fawzia Mustafa Set at the turn of the twentieth century, as Germany consolidated control over its East African colony, Abdulrazak Gurnah’s 1994 novel Paradise encompasses the last of the “Arab” caravan trading expeditions from the East African coast deep into the interior of the continent. In doing...

... that it documents. Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 diary Germany rape recovery World War II Midway through the diary of an anonymous female journalist, A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City (1953), the diarist has a conversation with a Berliner who identifies himself...

...) and the transformative virtue of that very fear through the mystery of Grace. . . . Which is why the title of the major polemical work that Bernanos was writing even as his source, Gertrud von le Fort, was speculating on the collapse of Germany in 1931, is of particular interest. La Grande peur des bien-pensants...

... perspectives on the historical present and, in turn, possibilities for alternative political imaginings of the future. While it is not set in the antebellum South but in Germany during World War II, Clifford’s Blues nonetheless features a protagonist who is enslaved, and it explicitly invokes the history...

... by “disrupt[ing] temporal linearity, points of view and the comforts of plot-driven resolution” (5). In the world of le Carré, the Second World War was less a victory than a hypocritical compromise, a Faustian bargain between Western democracies and the tatters of Nazi Germany, whose surviving fascists...

... back to Schiller as well as to Rousseau, but Disney’s version of the total work of art visvis the rationalization and integration of social, cultural, and economic life in postwar America, though often compared to the regulation of cultural life in Nazi Germany, also sought to delineate...

... debates about totalitarianism have tended to focus on Europe during World War II or to compare the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in a manner that precludes discussion of the racial injustice stemming from democracy’s entanglement with colonialism and the slave trade. Race and the Totalitarian Century...

...).The latter view, which Renan advocates in “What Is a Nation?” is that race, language, religion, and ge­ ography, while useful descriptors, do not determine nationhood. Renan rejects the notion, circulating in Germany under Bismarck and later ex­ 35 Carol J. Singley ploited by Hitler, that a nation...

...” (Ruyter 22, 57-66). Some of those adaptations eventually found their way to Europe in the early twentieth century— mainly to Germany and Russia, but to other areas as well. Preston does mention Delsartism in Germany (90), and she discusses more fully the arrival of Delsartean theories and practices...

... (469) O n 1 May 1935 Virginia and Leonard Woolf set out by car from Har­ wich, England, for a month-long tour of Europe, a trip that would take them through Holland, Germany, Italy, and into France. Prior to their de­ parture, Harold Nicolson, a member of the British diplomatic service...

... would have remained cognizant of the intentions of the “revolution” and its potential supporters throughout France. Beckett’s well-documented sensitivities to propaganda developed during his formative years under the cultural nationalism of the Irish Free State and during his tour of Nazi Germany...

... study succeeds is in navigating this quagmire by grounding interpretation in reception, illuminating Nietzsche by tracking responses to his works in Ireland, following studies elsewhere on the impact of Nietzsche in Germany, France, and the United States (Bixby gives a comprehensive overview...

... of the alienation effect and how Brecht used foreign China as a symbol for native Germany. Fi­ nally, between college and graduate school, I lived in Paris, a block away from the former residence of Zhou Enlai, but, aside from attending an exhibit at the Centre Pompidou called “Alors, la Chine,” the Tel Quel...

... as an animal causes the poet no psychic anxiety: such identification for an African American woman or for a Jew in Germany would resonate with prejudicial stereotypes from which Moore is free. (75) Lasker-Schüler instead uses gender doubling and cultural mixing in an extravagant play...

... as either victims or lynchpins of a vilified communist system and its aligned left-wing ideologies, including its more extremist versions. Once the mistake is discovered, Blažević-Krietzman is allowed to proceed to West Germany. The story shows how national boundaries not only regulate trans-border...

... in German reparations” (101). But whereas Dar­ lington may have been motivated to relax the conditions of Versailles by a sense of personal guilt toward his suffering friends in Germany, by the time of Suez, neither Britain nor America was above the methods that Darlington decries back in 1923...

... chairman of West Germany’s currency reform commission in 1947; his policies in this role contributed to the dramatic postwar economic recovery, or German “economic miracle,” for which he is most famous. His political stature coming out of this success led Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to appoint Erhard...

.... The city was celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the former socialist bloc in the late 1980s and 1990s. Present at the event were Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel; Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet president; and Lech Walesa, the leader...

... of imagination—most significantly in his earlier refusal to tell Margaret of Ruth’s bequest and later to grant the pregnant Helen leave to spend a night at Howards End before her self-exile to Germany. As the novel closes and Henry is forced by Dolly’s faux pas to acknowledge his dismissal...