Cross-Cultural Reckonings, Gelfant

Автор: Atencio Rebecca J.
Название: Memory`s Turn: Reckoning with Dictatorship in Brazil
ISBN: 0299297241 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780299297244
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: After twenty-one years of military dictatorship, Brazil returned to democratic rule in 1985. Yet over the following two decades, the country largely ignored human rights crimes committed by state security agents, crimes that included the torture, murder, and disappearance of those who opposed the authoritarian regime.
In clear and engaging prose, Rebecca J. Atencio tells the story of the slow turn to memory in Brazil, a turn that has taken place in both politics and in cultural production. She shows how testimonial literature, telenovelas, literary novels, theatrical plays, and memorials have interacted with policies adopted by the Brazilian state, often in unexpected ways. Under the right circumstances, official and cultural forms of reckoning combine in Brazil to produce what Atencio calls cycles of cultural memory. Novel meanings of the past are forged, and new cultural works are inspired, thus creating the possibility for further turns in the cycle.
The first book to analyze Brazil's reckoning with dictatorship through both institutional and cultural means, Memory's Turn is a rich, informative exploration of the interplay between these different modes of memory reconstruction.
Winner, Alfred B. Thomas Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies
Honorable Mention, Roberto Reis Book Prize, Brazilian Studies Association

Автор: Gilpin R. Blakeslee
Название: John Brown Still Lives!: America S Long Reckoning with Violence, Equality, and Change
ISBN: 1469613956 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469613956
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: From his obsession with the founding principles of the United States to his cold-blooded killings in the battle over slavery's expansion, John Brown forced his countrymen to reckon with America's violent history, its chequered progress toward racial equality, and its resistance to substantive change. Tracing Brown's legacy through writers and artists like Thomas Hovenden, W. E. B. Du Bois, Robert Penn Warren, Jacob Lawrence, Kara Walker, and others, Blake Gilpin transforms Brown from an object of endless manipulation into a dynamic medium for contemporary beliefs about the process and purpose of the American republic. Gilpin argues that the endless distortions of John Brown, misrepresentations of a man and a cause simultaneously noble and terrible, have only obscured our understanding of the past and loosened our grasp of the historical episodes that define America's struggles for racial equality. By showing Brown's central role in the relationship between the American past and the American present, Gilpin clarifies Brown's complex legacy and highlights his importance in the nation's ongoing struggle with the role of violence, the meaning of equality, and the intertwining paths these share with the process of change.

Автор: James Turner
Название: Reckoning with the beast: Animals, Pain, and Humanity in the Victorian Mind
ISBN: 0801866774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801866777
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: In this work, historian James Turner focuses on the rise of Victorian concern for the humane treatment of animals. In delving into the history of animal rights, he also covers such varied aspects of Victorian culture as attitudes towards sex, pain, child labour, women, poverty and science.