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The objective of the paper is to discuss Philip Roth’s approach to the Jewish community in Newark, where he spent his childhood and where he chose to set several of his novels. Roth’s narrations referring to his hometown are written in the first person singular and often take the form of childhood memories. The persistent return to the settings of the Jewish quarter of Newark in the past seems an attempt at understanding the reality of a relatively closed community, yet far from isolation, which provided him with all the elements determining his complex sense of identity. Despite the various grades of fictitiousness of the characters and settings, the narrating protagonist of a number of Roth’s novels is usually a Jewish schoolboy born and brought up in Newark. The paper includes short analyses of “Jewish memories” in three novels by Philip Roth: The Plot Against America, where the narrator is called Philip Roth but the circumstances are elements of pure political/historical fiction, American Pastoral, where the speaker is Nathan Zuckerman, Roth’s frequent alter ego, and Portnoy’s Complaint, narrated by the fictitious Alexander Portnoy. Being both American and Jewish has considerable implications, which include, for example, the characters’ sexuality. The image of the childhood and adolescence of Roth’s protagonists seems not only an obsessive theme to be found in so many of his texts, but also the core of the intellectual construct which may be recognized as his sense of identity
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Independence celebrations kick off a year of centennials across Eastern Europe.
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The purpose of the work is to substantiate the expediency of forming consolidated information resources of social memory institutions at the level of individual towns and communities as an effective instrument for preserving the historical and cultural heritage of the regions and developing e-culture. The methodology of the research consists of general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis; the comparative-historical methods for comparing ways of preserving the historical and cultural heritage are also used. Scientific novelty. The authors consider consolidated information resource as a modern socio-communicative system; for its designing and implementation it is proposed to use the methodology and tools of socio-communicative engineering. Conclusions. Socio-communicative projects on consolidation of information resources of social memory institutions of small-scale cities, the methodological principles of which are being developed, are intended to ensure the preservation of social memory at the regional level, with their further integration into the national information resource
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Nebojša Popov, Izbor Milivoje Maksić, Opasno nuđenje tuđeg Mirko Tepavac, Kako upokojiti prošlost Ima i zadovoljnih Kriminalizacija Srbije Nacionalizam protiv nacije Ima li alternative Milivoj Despot, Cinizam zaštitnika civila Vojin Dimitrijević, Srbi i Nemci: lažne i prave paralele Živorad Tasić, „Sitne krađe i otimačine“ Feliks Kanic, Rat i ratnici „Građanin-trkač“ Pavle Radić, Krvave i svilene gaće Raka Radović, Junaci ovog doba Andrija Dodig, Od praznika do praznika Pogrešne vatre Dragan Banjac, Poneko korektno, većina zlonamerno Emin Zulfikarpašić, Sarajlije više vide Emin Zulfikarpašić, Sarajevo u nekoliko slika Emin Zulfikarpašić, Ekspres preporučeno Jusuf Nikšič i Azra Ćemalović, Mostar, grad limenog mosta Mirko Đorđević, Iskušenja tranzicije Alternativa za Bosnu ("Bošnjak Adil Zulfikarpašić”, izdanje: Bošnjački institut, Cirih, 1994. Autori: Milovan Đilas i Nadežda Gaće) Ejub Štitkovac, Zajednička izgradnja bogomolja Svenka Savić, Religija i obrazovanje (Dr Tadej Vojnović, „Razgovori o Lukinom evanđelju”. seminari, Protektor, Zagreb, 1995) Teofil Pančić, Pravoslavna knjiga se rodi Intelektualno džeparenje Jovana Raškovića Miodrag Stanisavljević, Komasacija naroda
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At the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, we encounter the cruel ban of satire in public discourse. In neighboring Croatia, NewsBar is on trial due to its satirical texts. In Serbia, the […]
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1. Izbori Razgovaraju Amerikanac, Japanac i Bosanac o izborima. Amerikanac: _ Kod nas se za manje od 2 sata nakon izbora zna ko je pobijedio. Japanac: – Hehe nije to ništa, kod nas se zna […]
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In this paper the author tries to represent the culture of memory (Kuljić 2006) which became independent in the post-socialist environment, becoming a kind of cultivated and privileged “refuge of forgetfulness” that aims to expel those traditions that are not welcome when constructing a society that is new and more vital in terms of identity. It is quite clear that these are the societies for which, not just socialism, but also other instances of historical encounter with their identity archetypes, represent the “wreck of memory,” and the abyss of warning about creation, design and emigration into a new past that is comfortable enough for them. Is this the way that each of us should go? Is it the way of collective catharsis or a systemic and ideological exorcism, which systematically creates and persecutes all those who do not conform and do not get used to the climate of “The Damned Yard” (Симић 2014)? It seems that this condition forces a man to wake up from a passionate ideological coma and become a chronicler of life turmoil, i.e. “his own war” (Prilepin 2016).
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World War II in general and Holocaust in particular are important topics of the debate in the Lithuanian public discourse. Due to that the Lithuanian and Russian press is seen by the author not just as a significant source of information, but also as a peculiar tool for structuring knowledge about Lithuania’s historical past. The article reveals that the perception of Holocaust history is changing in the Lithuanian and Russian press in recent years by rethinking of the dominant Lithuanian historical narrative and representing diverse approaches to the role of Lithuanians in collaboration with the Nazi regime. The Holocaust Discourse is constructed as important experience in considering and strengthening the human rights protection discourse in Lithuania as well. The article is based on selected texts published in 2016 by online daily DELFI and printed newspapers in the Lithuanian and Russian languages (150 publications in total).
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Kyiv says the collapse of a landmark Cold War arms-control pact gives it a free hand to develop new ballistic missiles.
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The author considers the process of sacralization of topoi in the individual memory and translation of images from the individual memory into the cultural memory, introduces the concept of “landscape worlds of biography”. The content of this concept is related to the concepts of the topoi, “image”, “landscape”. Sacralization of topoi in individual memory is most overtly manifested on the historical and/or cultural “border”, in situations of “reconsidering/processing of the past”.
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From Freud onwards many cultural theorists have been aware of the impor¬tance of forgetting as an inherent failure of memory to retain “whole truth and nothing else but truth”. Which led them to revise their interpretative strategies in order to pay more attention to the unsaid in V memory texts. Nowadays, this has become a common procedure in post-colonial criticism, in feminist readin¬gs of cultural texts, and in post-Freudian criticism. In this paper the author pays attention to some of those theories of “the reading the unsaid” that have proven to be the most influential in contemporary cultural studies.
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Witnessing history and feeling dedicated to a certain period of history can be possible if people pass on their knowledge which they’ve obtained from their memories and past experiences to the next generation. With this regard memories are among the most significant references while writing history. There are important studies that discuss the references which approach the main sources of the history. History puts forward new perspectives on methodology by discussing its own sources. There are different views on the relationship between memoirs and history. According to one of these views memoirs can be defined as the act of publicizing part of a private or social life by an individual who wants to continue his/her existence in the future. The reasons why memoirs are written can be stated as to prevent memories from being forgotten, passing on a reality (that is afraid to be lost) to history, society, to show your admiration to people you live with, to confess a sin or to give a lesson to next generations. The main concern of the authors in writing memoirs is writing about their experiences instead of writing about themselves. By this the person devotes his/her narration to history and becomes a significant reference of it. The relevant study aims to put forward the contribution of memoirs to the history studies and analyze the methodological usage and writing process of the memoirs which are regarded as the main references of academic researches on history. In this way an opportunity will be provided to evaluate the events and facts from different perspectives by revealing the invisible parts of the events which can’t be found in the documents, the other side that can’t be seen in the mirror, the details which reveal humanity and daily life. This situation should be interpreted as the contribution of memoir source type to history studies.
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Lack of knowledge about the massacres at Kurapaty leave modern Belarus on shaky foundations.
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As the 30th anniversary of 1989’s anti-communist revolution approaches later this year,many young Czechs will likely wonder what all the commotion is about.
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The nation occupies a central place in the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky, one that is closely connected with anthropological issues. For the author of The Devils, the nation constituted a collective entity based on the ethos of personalism, which is such a distinctive feature of Russian Orthodox thought. The immersion of the individual in the Orthodox community protects him against what Dostoevsky regarded as the pernicious and destructive individualism of European civilization. Thanks to this community, the Russian people can protect themselves against the degeneration of European nations and the rationalist consciousness that gave birth to the anti-Christian ideas of revolution and socialism. For Dostoyevsky, the identity of the Russian nation is infused with a sense of religious messianism combined with political messianism. This is a mystical-nationalistic messianism, which comes to the fore most emphatically in the conviction that Russia carries God within itself. It is the incarnation of God. It is this belief that fashions, in Dostoevsky’s opinion, the political mission of Russia – to provide brotherly protection for other Orthodox peoples and come to the rescue of a Europe in crisis. However, while in Dostoyevsky’s Christian anthropology the highest expression of the self is achieved through dialogue with another self, such interactions are not possible in the Russian nation’s relations other nations. The diversity of voices shaping the dialogue of nations does not correspond to the diversity of voices existing in interpersonal dialogues This is made impossible by the position and attitude of Russia as a nation serving a mission at two important levels of its existence: at the religious level and the political-state level. Not only in Dostoyevsky’s journalism, but also in the polyphony of his literary works, the Russian nation has a closed, non-polyphonic structure.
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The article presents an ethnolinguistic analysis of A. Stasiuk’s drama Czekając na Turka (‘Waiting for the Turk’). Staged in 2009, the play examines figures of communicative and cultural collective memory, to use Jan Assmann’s terminology. Particular attention is given to linguistic means of lexical and syntactic archaization of literary text, used to elicit associations with the past images of Turks in Polish and European imagination, and in consequence, to propose an interpretation of an important event in European culture and history at the end of the 20th century: the fall of the Berlin Wall. In comparison with the older concept of antemurale Christianitatis (associated with Ottoman Turks’ incursions against European countries), the importance of the modern, current concept is reduced.
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Despite its popularity among tourists as a kitschy souvenir, the traditional Czech-made marionette is now being transformed by new technologies, and expanding its influence into other cultures and sciences.
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This essay deals with personal emotional entanglements that one encounters when researching letters written by perpetrators of the Holocaust.
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Scientific historiography did not manage to crucially influence the creation of historical conscience as far as the processing of themes on past in the second edition of Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia are concerned. Reality of Yugoslavia was contradictory and full of conflicts of various types in which even historians participated, each in their own way, sometimes even without being aware of it. The governing establishment feared the revealing of the past because it could spoil previous historical picture, especially the one that had nothing to do with the Second World War and state-political organization of SFRY. In addition to this, partisan generation was still very present in the public scene. Thus for them every reexamination of history was the conviction of their gained rights and casting of an unjust shadow on their own past. While Serbian historiography showed a great level of disunity, disharmony and hiding behind the principles of non-interference in political and ideological clashes in Yugoslavia of that time, by which it did support one concept, Croatian Marxist historiography was consistently defending the views of its Establishment, slowly preparing the field for overcoming the rigid national approach. The clashes between Serbia and Croatia in historiography showed two completely different concepts in the interpretation of the common past, two separate currents, as if these were two different histories.
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