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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"émigré"”.
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Dangerous diasporas : émigré nationalism and ethnic violence
The number of exceptionally brutal ethnic confrontations that followed the end of the Cold War brought with them question of diaspora contributions to violence. The unwritten assumption was that diaspora compatriots were natural allies, sharing a strong sense of nationalism and standing at the …
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Photography, memory and identity: the émigré photographer Lisel Haas (1898-1989)
… and identity. This approach places Haas within émigré photography rather than exile photography. The latter places emphasis on political persecution; this study rather concentrates on the formation of memory and identity of an émigré. The present work has utilised the extensive archival material …
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The contribution of émigré art historians to the British art world after 1933
The purpose of this Ph.D. thesis on émigré art historians in Britain is not only to show how alien the concept of art history was to the British before 1933, but also to assess and qualify the subsequent practical and theoretical contribution of art historians who immigrated to Britain. These 93 …
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A Comparative Analysis of the First and Second Symphonies of Émigré Composer Hans Gál (1890-1987)
<p>Hans Gál (1890-1987) is best known for editing the complete works of Brahms and for his scholarly writings on music. He was also a talented and prolific composer; however, much of his music remains unknown. Gál was appointed director of the Mainz Conservatory in 1929, but because of his Jewish …
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“They Drink Tea": Everyday Loneliness and the Poetics of Place in Russophone American Short Stories (The Cases of Nina Berberova and Olga Zilberbourg)
… Olga Zilberbourg (1979-) to explore how female émigré and immigrant authors articulate displacement through the motifs of loneliness, memory, and space. Though separated by time and geography, both writers reimagine the short story as a vessel for negotiating fractured identities and the …
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An Escape from Language into Language: The Internal Exile of Louis Wolfson
… tongue - might serve to illuminate European émigré writers' relationships to multilingualism.</p>
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“Managing” the future of a lost empire. Byzantine émigré discourses of agency and fate in the face of crisis and affliction. Cardinal Bessarion and George Trapezuntius (ca. 1400-1472)
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“Their Need Was Great”: Émigrés and Anglo-American Intelligence Operations in the Early Cold War
… Cold War, sponsored by Western states using émigré agents, usually ends with the conclusion that these operations were a failure, both in operational terms and from the point of view of the intelligence gathered. I will challenge this conclusion, showing that not only the operations gathered …
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Aristocrats into Modernity: French Émigrés and the Refashioning of Noble Identities
… allowed, and often compelled, several noble émigrés to adapt, or at least attempt to adapt, to the new world ushered by the Revolution. In order to find a new place and a new legitimacy, noble émigrés relied on a variety of practices and discourses. Some turned to landownership and argued …
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Fragile Normativity and the Politics of the Social Sciences, c. 1940-1975
… the interactions between German-speaking émigré intellectuals and social scientific debates in the mid-century United States. While classical interpretations often assume émigré thought was founded upon a humanistic rejection of American social scientific method, this dissertation argues …
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Émigrés as Aneks: Polish Intellectuals Between East and West, 1968–1989
… a publication that a small group of post-1968 émigrés, mostly Polish Jews, created in exile. Conceptualized as an “annex” to intellectual life in Poland, the publication<em> </em>was founded to help Polish intellectuals look beyond the country to better understand national problems. At the core …
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A technical and historical analysis of the decorative paintings by Nicola Monachesi in the Richard Alsop IV house, Middletown, Connecticut
… first-floor murals. Attributed to Italian émigré Nicola Monachesi, these murals are one of only two surviving works by the artist and have undergone minimal intervention since their creation. The most significant treatment occurred after Wesleyan University’s acquisition of the property in …
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Brave Belgians of the Belle Époque : a study of the late-romantic Ghent horn playing tradition
… on horn playing worldwide through a diaspora of émigré players, commonly nicknamed ‘brave Belgians’ by their contemporaries. Their life stories and achievements are exemplary of the relation between musical, educational, social, organological and artistic developments that emerged in Belgium …
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The realisation of recitative by the Cello in Handelian Opera
… turn of the eighteenth century provided Italian émigré composer-cellists with the techniques to realise recitative. The use of the cello as a harmonising instrument is traced through its repertoire from the late seventeenth century to the unexpected pedagogical source of Geminiani’s The Art of …
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Frances Burney d’Arblay and Anglican Womanhood, 1752 – 1840.
… illness, then married a French Roman Catholic émigré and spent ten years trapped in France during the Napoleonic War. Her father, a musicologist and teacher, struggled to reconcile a conservative elite sociability with the quasi-proscribed Catholicism of his wider circle. This thesis argues …
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The Construction of National Identity in post-1918 Poland
… this thesis will evaluate the programmes of the émigré organizations and political parties to demonstrate the role of the two national currents: ethnic/organic and civic/territorial, which developed during the nineteenth century and shaped competing definitions of Polish nation. Furthermore, this …
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Algerian immigrants in London (United Kingdom) and Valencia (Spain): towards a new migration and labour model?
… a downright consideration of the system "émigré-immigre" (Sayad, 1997), as well as the active role of migrants in shaping their lives before, during and after migration. There was a wide diversity of motives for migration and various patterns of insertion and mobility within the labour …
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Post-War African Studies, Underdevelopment, and the French and British New Lefts, 1953-1993
… Chapter 2 shows how the thought of South African émigré Marxists developed within British New Left milieus as a critique of liberal theories of industrialisation and modernisation. It then shows how thinkers associated with the French New Left, like Claude Meillassoux and Étienne Balibar, drew on …
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The Dancer Walking The Ruins: Laura Riding and Dialectical Thought
… in New York City, 1901. Her father, a Jewish émigré, was a committed activist for the left and included Riding in his campaigning at a very young age, immersing and educating her in the political and philosophical radicalism thriving in New York’s Jewish communities of the era. There she …
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