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The Sarah Gudger Interview: An Analysis
Get PDFDuring the Great Depression, a New Deal project intended to create jobs was the Federal Writer\u27s Project. One aspect of this project, the Slave Narrative Project, involved the interviews of over 2,000 former slaves and culminated in a federal collection of information on the lives of enslaved people. This paper focuses on the interview of Sarah Gudger, a 121 year-old former slave from North Carolina. It includes an overview of the content included and excluded from the interview in addition to an analysis of the interview including factors that may have positively or negatively impacted the interview\u27s content, as well as its continued value and usefulness to historians and scholars
Memoirs: Negotiating the Great War’s Social Memory
No full textThe First World War led to the largest boom in published American war books since the Civil War. War memoirs were popular with both publishers and readers alike. Hundreds of returning doughboys took to their pens and published accounts of fighting in France. Joining them were books by nurses and canteen workers who also told stories of their experiences at the front supporting the Allied war effort. This chapter examines war memoirs published both during and after the war. It considers trends in martial publishing and argues that the wealth of war-relating writing created a cultural footprint of American war books that rested somewhat uneasily as feelings about the First World War changed in the 1920s. Moreover, the variety of war memoirs released further complicates notions of a uniform American experience in print. Rather, there is tension between books celebrating American and Allied victory with those that emphasize the hard-fought realities of combat on the western front
Jim Jarmusch\u27s Paterson: Poetry, Place, and Cinematic Form
No full textA passion for poetry textures nearly all Jim Jarmusch films. Some connection to poets and poems can be seen scattered across films even when deeper connections do not exist. For example, in Down by Law (1986), Roberto (Roberto Benigni) exuberantly expresses his passion for Walt Whitman and Bob Frost. the film concludes with a shot that visually echos The Road Not Taken, one of Frost\u27s most renowned poems. In Mystery Train (1989), a pair of Japanese tourists walk down Chaucer Street in Memphis. Jarmusch creates a more intricate nod to poetry in Dead Man (1995). The film features a protagonist named William Bill Blake (Johnny Depp), and Jarmusch inserts language from the poet William Blake throughout the screenplay. He even allows Nobody (Gary Farmer), Bill Blake\u27s aboriginal guide, to quote from Blake\u27s Proverbs from Hell. As Hugh Davis notes, these nods to Blake move beyond a mere adaptation of Blake\u27s poetry: The film represents a synthesis of the very different media of poetry and film into a form that transcends what either can do individually (94). [excerpt
Developing Community-Based Learning in an Action Model Framework: Faculty Reflect on their Development as Teachers and Scholars
Get PDFFaculty reflect on their participation in a Community-Based Learning (CBL) Fellowship designed to create a community of teachers and scholars immersed in an integrated model of academic-community engagement at a small liberal arts college. The program created a space to grapple with CBL principles together, provided accountability and encouragement, and became a source of support through isolation and tensions. Traditional philosophies of teaching and scholarship were challenged and faculty embraced their roles as partners in advancing social justice
Memory, Identity, and World II in Australia: Liz Reed\u27s Bigger Than Gallipoli
Get PDFThis paper is structured as a review of Liz Reed\u27s 2004 study Bigger Than Gallipoli: War, History, and Memory in Australia, an analysis of the Australian government\u27s public commemoration of the Second World War from 1994-95. Critiquing certain aspects of Reed\u27s methodology, I bring in some of Jill Ker Conway\u27s insights on Australian identity from her 1989 memoir The Road from Coorain, as well as other scholars of historical memory and political theory. While Reed makes some important insights on the merits and deficiencies of political nostalgia, I argue that her book represents a missed opportunity overall
Navidades de Madrid y noches entretenidas: edición digital de seis novelas
No full textUna edición digital anotada de seis novelas procedentes de la colección de Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra, Navidades de Madrid y noches entretenidas (1663), preparada por los estudiantes de la clase SPAN 365: Escritoras y su empoderamiento en la literatura del Siglo de Oro (Gettysburg College, primavera de 2021)
English: A digital annotated edition of six novels from Mariana de Carvajal y Saavedra’s collection Navidades de Madrid y noches entretenidas (1663), prepared by students in SPAN 365: Female Authors and Empowerment in Spain’s Golden Age (Gettysburg College, Spring 2021)https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/oer/1008/thumbnail.jp