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Spanish People on the Silver Screen: Nation and Region in the Cinema of the Second Republic
2013
The article reflects on the presence and scope of the discourses of Spanish nationalism in the mass culture through the study of Spanish cinema produced during the years of the Second Republic. From a theoretical perspective based on the latest theoretical developments on nationalism, and particularly those concerning the role of culture, the article seeks to place the cinema in the heart of the study of Spanish nation-building process in the first decades of the twentieth century. The analytical axis will be the examination of the filmic construction of the regional imaginaries as a representation of Spain. After some general considerations concerning the presence of regional and national …
Divenire minoranza, il trattamento della follia in età borbonica. L’Ospizio di Santa Teresa di Palermo (XIX secolo)
2022
Interessanti spunti riguardanti il trattamento della follia si ricavano dal contesto siciliano all’inizio del XIX secolo, periodo in cui si perfeziona il controllo sociale da parte delle istituzioni. Nello specifico, si vuole qui proporre il caso dell’Ospizio di Santa Teresa di Palermo, l’ex noviziato dei Teresiani Scalzi poco fuori le mura della città di Palermo, istituto adibito nel 1802, durante il soggiorno forzato della corte borbonica in Sicilia e il protettorato inglese, al contenimento dei cosiddetti «incurabili», cioè di qualsiasi minaccia che potesse interferire o interagire con la società sana del tempo. Interesting insights into the treatment of madness are to be gained from the…
El sistema escolar en la ciudad de Valencia en el siglo XV
2019
En la València de finals de l’Edat Mitjana existí una reduïda inserció de l’ensenyament de les lletres en el món de l’aprenentatge domèstic. Per a les famílies benestants, l’escola de gramàtica era la prolongació de l’ensenyament domèstic allí on no arribava la competència paterna. L’església era l’única institució que, fins finals del segle XIV, comptava amb els mitjans i personal necessari per a mantenir escoles. A partir de 1373 la intervenció municipal posà fi al monopoli eclesiàstic. Durant el segle XV coexistiren les escoles subvencionades per l’esglèsia i pel municipi, juntament amb altres d’independents.
Glimmering utopias: 50 years of African film
2010
The history of African film began in the 1960s with the independence of the colonies. Despite all kinds of political and economic difficulties, numerous films have been made since then, featuring wide-ranging processes of consolidation, differentiation and transformation which were characteristic of post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa. However, these feature films should not merely be viewed as back references to specifically African problems. The glimmering fictions are imagination spaces. They preserve ideas about how the post-colonial circumstances should be approached. Seen from this perspective, the history of African film may be studied as a history of African utopias. Die Geschichte des…
Pētera Ķiķaukas referāts “Grāmatas un lasītāji”
1953
Prof. dr. philol. Pētera Ķiķaukas rakstīts referāts, kas nolasīts 1953. gada 25. janvārī Baptistu draudzes un jaunatnes vakarā Toronto (Kanādā), Draudzīgā aicinājuma atceres pasākumā. Referāta autors aicina lasīt grāmatas un saglabāt latviešu kultūrvēsturisko identitāti trimdā.
Beatlestudies 3, Proceedings of the Beatles 2000 Conference
2001
This book contains a selection of papers presented at the BEATLES 2000 Conference, held at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, from 15 to 18 June, 2000. The conference was organized by the Department of Music at the University of Jyvaskyla, the BEATLES 2000 research project, and Confennia Ltd.
Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe: De-essentialising Euro-Mediterranean History
2011
Informed by an interpretative framework where the theoretical paradigms of British Cultural studies and Black feminism inextricably interweave, the paper aims at illustrating a complex identity model of the Black British woman as delineated in Anglo-Nigerian writer Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe (2001). Published at the turn of the 21st century, Evaristo’s second novel-in-verse revolves around the life-experience of a young black woman born of Sudanese parents in Roman London, Zuleika, who ends up having an intense relationship with the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus. In its highly orchestrated narrative fabric where prose and poetry conflate, this unconventional historical novel…
Castron kastraatio : Pedro Juan Gutiérrezin proosa castrokommunistisen utopian romuttajana
2016
This dissertation explores how Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's fiction corresponds to the Castrocommunist utopia. The study has three goals: (1) to explain how Castro-communism has formed, altered and impacted on Cuban literature; (2) to investigate how Gutiérrez's fiction corresponds to the Castro-communist utopia and ideals; and (3) how his parodic (anti)detective story Nuestro GG en La Habana (2004) is based on and relates to Cuban socialist detective stories, Graham Greene's spy farce Our Man in Havana, Castro-communist historiography and the social, ideological and economic shifts in Cuban society during the 1990s. Previous studies on Gutiérrez's fiction have focused almost exclusively on the a…