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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Slavs"”.
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British perceptions of the Balkan Slavs: Professional and popular categorizations before 1914
… understanding about the ways in which the Balkan Slavs were perceived and represented in Britain between 1856 and 1914 by concentrating on religious, military, commercial and satirical discourses. These specific areas have not received enough detailed analysis in the existing secondary literature. …
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Czech mission: identity of Czech protestant missionaries in their interaction with Slavs in former Yugoslavia countries
… the culturally proximal context of working with Slavs in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. The issue that I explore is the Czech identity facet of the missionaries, in the light of the social identity complexity concept with focus on …
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Balkan Minds: Transnational Nationalism and the Transformation of South Slavic Immigrant Identity in Chicago, 1890-1941
… fuel the engines of the new economy. The South Slavs of the Balkans joined countless others from the furthest corners of the European continent during the final years of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth. Millions of foreign and unfamiliar faces, outlandishly clad, …
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James Cagney, Outside/inside: Assimilation of a New York City star in 1930s Hollywood
… ethnic newcomers (Italians, Jews, Poles, and Slavs). To star studies I combine close readings of thirteen 1930s films (including Blonde Crazy (1931), Mayor of Hell (1933), Here Comes the Navy (1934), and Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)) with a concern for linking text to historical context (the …
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Lost and Found: The Rediscovery of Lithuania in American Fiction
… well as the misrepresentation of Lithuanians as Slavs or their presentation as generic Eastern Europeans in American literary works and criticism resulted from the changed attitude of Americans towards European nationalism on the one hand, and the changed political status of Lithuania on the …
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My Cherished Enemy: The Construction of Identity and Otherness in Russia
… ‘other’ developed from the time when the East Slavs were little more than a collection of tribal confederations to the era of Soviet superpower. By shedding light on the hitherto underplayed roots of certain phenomenon such as the question of the Jewish Khazars or how the ambivalent Russian …
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The lost East: Silesian expellees in West Germany and the fantasy of return, 1945-1970
… a timeless, pristine, and intimate space without Slavs, Jews, or Nazis. The Heimat of memory was threatened by what they imagined as its dark inverse, a Heimat transformed: disordered, decaying, foreign, and dangerous, allegedly due to the influence of Russian armies and Polish settlers. Applying …