Der Toussaint Louverture Mythos
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Der Toussaint Louverture Mythos
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Author : Isabell Lammel
language : de
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2015-07-31
Der Toussaint Louverture Mythos written by Isabell Lammel and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
Wie wurde und wird der haitianische Revolutionsführer Toussaint Louverture (1743-1803) in der französischen Literatur repräsentiert? Isabell Lammel betrachtet die unterschiedlichen Renarrationen dieses Mythos, der in der Historiografie nahezu dem Vergessen anheimfiel, vom Ende des 18. bis zum Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts. Mithilfe des jeweiligen historischen und soziokulturellen Kontexts erläutert sie die sich realisierenden Transformationen des Mythos. Der Umgang mit Toussaint Louverture im französischen Nationaldiskurs veranschaulicht zugleich die Auseinandersetzung Frankreichs mit seiner eigenen Kolonialvergangenheit - aber auch mit dem Nationalhelden Napoleon.
Black Spartacus
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Author : Sudhir Hazareesingh
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-09-03
Black Spartacus written by Sudhir Hazareesingh and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culminated a dozen years later in the proclamation of the world's first independent black state. After the abolition of slavery in 1793, Toussaint Louverture, himself a former slave, became the leader of the colony's black population, the commander of its republican army and eventually its governor. During the course of his extraordinary life he confronted some of the dominant forces of his age - slavery, settler colonialism, imperialism and racial hierarchy. Treacherously seized by Napoleon's invading army in 1802, this charismatic figure ended his days, in Wordsworth's phrase, 'the most unhappy man of men', imprisoned in a fortress in France. Black Spartacus draws on a wealth of archival material, much of it overlooked by previous biographers, to follow every step of Louverture's singular journey, from his triumphs against French, Spanish and British troops to his skilful regional diplomacy, his Machiavellian dealings with successive French colonial administrators and his bold promulgation of an autonomous Constitution. Sudhir Hazareesingh shows that Louverture developed his unique vision and leadership not solely in response to imported Enlightenment ideals and revolutionary events in Europe and the Americas, but through a hybrid heritage of fraternal slave organisations, Caribbean mysticism and African political traditions. Above all, Hazareesingh retrieves Louverture's rousing voice and force of personality, making this the most engaging, as well as the most complete, biography to date. After his death in the French fortress, Louverture became a figure of legend, a beacon for slaves across the Atlantic and for generations of European republicans and progressive figures in the Americas. He inspired the anti-slavery campaigner Frederick Douglass, the most eminent nineteenth-century African-American; his emancipatory struggle was hailed by those who defied imperial and colonial rule well into the twentieth. In the modern era, his life informed the French poet Aimé Césaire's seminal idea of négritude and has been celebrated in a remarkable range of plays, songs, novels and statues. Here, in all its drama, is the epic story of the world's first black superhero.
Civil War And The Collapse Of The Social Bond
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Author : Michèle Lowrie
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-10-13
Civil War And The Collapse Of The Social Bond written by Michèle Lowrie and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-13 with History categories.
Can civil war ever be overcome? Can a better order come into being? This book explores how the Roman civil wars of the first century BCE laid the template for addressing perennially urgent questions. The Roman Republic's collapse and Augustus' new Empire have remained ideological battlegrounds to this day. Integrative and disintegrative readings begun in antiquity (Vergil and Lucan) have left their mark on answers given by Christians (Augustine), secular republicans (Victor Hugo), and disillusioned satirists (Michel Houellebecq) alike. France's self-understanding as a new Rome – republican during the Revolution, imperial under successive Napoleons – makes it a special case in the Roman tradition. The same story returns repeatedly. A golden age of restoration glimmers on the horizon, but comes in the guise of a decadent, oriental empire that reintroduces and exposes everything already wrong under the defunct republic. Central to the price of social order is patriarchy's need to subjugate women.
Men On Horseback
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Author : David A. Bell
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2020-07-28
Men On Horseback written by David A. Bell and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-28 with History categories.
"In his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell’s description of our predicament makes for essential reading." —Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Review of Books An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen In Men on Horseback, the Princeton University historian David A. Bell offers a dramatic new interpretation of modern politics, arguing that the history of democracy is inextricable from the history of charisma, its shadow self. Bell begins with Corsica’s Pasquale Paoli, an icon of republican virtue whose exploits were once renowned throughout the Atlantic World. Paoli would become a signal influence in both George Washington’s America and Napoleon Bonaparte’s France. In turn, Bonaparte would exalt Washington even as he fashioned an entirely different form of leadership. In the same period, Toussaint Louverture sought to make French Revolutionary ideals of freedom and equality a reality for the formerly enslaved people of what would become Haiti, only to be betrayed by Napoleon himself. Simon Bolivar witnessed the coronation of Napoleon and later sought refuge in newly independent Haiti as he fought to liberate Latin America from Spanish rule. Tracing these stories and their interconnections, Bell weaves a spellbinding tale of power and its ability to mesmerize. Ultimately, Bell tells the crucial and neglected story of how political leadership was reinvented for a revolutionary world that wanted to do without kings and queens. If leaders no longer rule by divine right, what underlies their authority? Military valor? The consent of the people? Their own Godlike qualities? Bell’s subjects all struggled with this question, learning from each other’s example as they did so. They were men on horseback who sought to be men of the people—as Bell shows, modern democracy, militarism, and the cult of the strongman all emerged together. Today, with democracy’s appeal and durability under threat around the world, Bell’s account of its dark twin is timely and revelatory. For all its dangers, charisma cannot be dispensed with; in the end, Bell offers a stirring injunction to reimagine it as an animating force for good in the politics of our time.
Universal Pronouncing Dictionary Of Biography And Mythology
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Author : Joseph Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Universal Pronouncing Dictionary Of Biography And Mythology written by Joseph Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Biography categories.
Indignez Vous
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Author : Kai Fischer
language : de
Publisher: Neofelis Verlag
Release Date : 2014-11-14
Indignez Vous written by Kai Fischer and has been published by Neofelis Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts postulierte Francis Fukuyama als Reaktion auf den Zusammenbruch des sozialistischen Ostblocks noch das "Ende der Geschichte" und den Triumph des Liberalismus. Die weltweite Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts und die Folgen des "Arabischen Frühlings" haben diese These jedoch Lügen gestraft. Ganz in diesem Sinne fordert der Résistancekämpfer Stéphane Hessel "Indignez-vous!" in seinem gleichnamigen Manifest für die Gegenwart ein. Diese kritische Neubewertung der Geschichte spiegelt sich in der Literatur des ausgehenden 20. und beginnenden 21. Jahrhunderts in zahlreichen Spielformen alternativer Gesellschafts- und Geschichtsentwürfe wider. Der Sammelband «Indignez-vous!» vereint jene wissenschaftlichen Beiträge, die im Rahmen der gleichnamigen Tagung für Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz im Februar 2013 vorgetragen wurden. Ausgehend von der Annahme einer erneuten Hinwendung zu geschichtsphilosophischen Themen um die Jahrhundertwende wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Auswirkungen die in verschiedenen Nationalliteraturen zu konstatierende intellektuelle Neubewertung der Gegenwart für die literarische Auseinandersetzung mit Geschichte hat.
Werkstattgeschichte
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Author : Verein für kritische Geschichtsschreibung e.V.
language : de
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2023-03-31
Werkstattgeschichte written by Verein für kritische Geschichtsschreibung e.V. and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-31 with History categories.
WerkstattGeschichte ist eine Zeitschrift, in der über Geschichte und ihre Akteur*innen ebenso reflektiert wird wie über historisches Forschen und Schreiben. Sie bietet Platz, konventionelle Perspektiven zu durchbrechen und neue Formen der Darstellung zu erproben. Die Zeitschrift bleibt der Sozialgeschichte verbunden, legt aber deutlichen Wert darauf, die große Geschichte aus einer alltagsgeschichtlichen Perspektive zu befragen. Das von Benjamin Brendel herausgegebene Heft »Reizende Gerüche« untersucht Dimensionen kultureller und sozialer Konstruktion von olfaktorischen Wahrnehmungen. Dabei thematisieren die Beiträger*innen vor allem die historische Wandelbarkeit von Praktiken des Riechens und mit ihnen verbundene Emotionen im europäisch-nordamerikanischen Kontext.
Universal Pronouncing Dictionary Of Biography And Mythology
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Author : Joseph Thomas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Universal Pronouncing Dictionary Of Biography And Mythology written by Joseph Thomas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Biography categories.
Black Cultural Mythology
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Author : Christel N. Temple
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2020-04-01
Black Cultural Mythology written by Christel N. Temple and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Winner of the 2021 CLA Book Award presented by the College Language Association Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of "mythology" from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relationship between legacies of heroic survival, cultural memory, and creative production in the African diaspora. Christel N. Temple comprehensively surveys more than two hundred years of figures, moments, ideas, and canonical works by such visionaries as Maria Stewart, Richard Wright, Colson Whitehead, and Edwidge Danticat to map an expansive yet broadly overlooked intellectual tradition of Black cultural mythology and to provide a new conceptual framework for analyzing this tradition. In so doing, she at once reorients and stabilizes the emergent field of Africana cultural memory studies, while also staging a much broader intervention by challenging scholars across disciplines—from literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, and beyond—to embrace a more organic vocabulary to articulate the vitality of the inheritance of survival.
Parthenope Neapolis Napoli
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Author : Elisabeth Oy-Marra
language : de
Publisher: V&R Unipress
Release Date : 2018-09-10
Parthenope Neapolis Napoli written by Elisabeth Oy-Marra and has been published by V&R Unipress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-10 with Science categories.
Bis in die 60er Jahre des 20. Jahrhunderts war die Stadt am Golf ein Sehnsuchtsort, und auch heute noch blühen die Zitronen in Unteritalien. Dieser Band mit Beiträgen aus der Archäologie, der Geschichts-, Kunst-, Musik-, Film- und Literaturwissenschaft zeigt aber, dass Neapel auch stets ein Hort der Unruhe, des Zwielichtigen, wenn nicht des Anrüchigen war und ist. Die Stadt ist so durchlässig wie der Tuffsteingrund, auf dem Parthenope einst erbaut wurde. Als »Stadt des Porösen« (Walter Benjamin) steht Neapel für eine reiche antike Überlieferung, für eine hoch entwickelte Opernkultur und eine barocke Verblüffungskunst, die ihresgleichen sucht, aber auch für die lange spanische Fremdherrschaft, für blutige Rebellionen und nicht zuletzt für die Auswüchse globalisierter Kriminalität. Until the 1960's the city situated on the Gulf was a place of desire and even today lemons are still blossoming in Southern Italy. This volume with essays from archaeology, study fields of history, art, music, film and literature depict that Naples also was and still is a hotbed of unrest, of shadiness not to say disreputability. The city is as porous as the volcanic tuff on which Parthenope once was built. As a »porous city« (Walter Benjamin) Naples stands for a rich ancient tradition, for a highly developed opera culture and for an outstanding baroque art but also for a long period of Spanish rule, for bloody rebellions and last but not least for global crime.