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World War I record of service survey for Harry B. Salman, signed 7 September 1926.
No full textQuestionnaire about Harry Bennett Salman's service in World War I, 1917-1919, signed by Salman on 7 September 1926.Questionnaire originally part of a survey of Norwich University alumni conducted by a “Norwich in the World War” committee consisting of Charles N. Barber (chairman), Carl V. Woodbury, K.R.B. Flint, and Gustaf A. Nelson. Data from these questionnaires may have been used in a chapter of "Vermont in the world war, 1917-1919" by Harold P. Sheldon (1928)
Representations of migrant and nation in selected works of Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie
Full text linkThis thesis explores the representations of, and the relationship between. the migrant and the nation in selected works of the Bombay-born novelists Rohinton Mistry and Salman Rushdie. I explore each writer's engagement with contemporary debates surrounding the material, political, social and imaginative consequences of the crisis in secularism in India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, and consider how this engagement is informed by their
migrant positions beyond India's borders. A primary concern is the way in which Mistry's and Rushdie's representations of the nation, and of migrant and diasporic subjects, intersects with the representation of Bombay in their work.
This thesis is divided into five chapters. The first two chapters concentrate on Mistry's fiction, the remaining three on Rushdie's work. Published between 1988 and 2002, the central novels examined are situated within debates regarding the founding principles of the Indian nation, and notions of Indianness, the rise of communalism in general and Hindu nationalism in particular, and the renaming of Bombay as Mumbai. My readings foreground the necessity of a
close understanding of the historical and political transformations taking place within Bombay and India during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, but also during the 1950s and 1960s. I argue that Mistry's and Rushdie's work is informed by a deepening anxiety over these socio-political transformations, and over how reconfigurations of Indianness increasingly position minority communities, and migrant and diasporic subjects, outside of definitions of national identity.
This anxiety extends into the negotiation of their own migrant positions. My reading of the differing representations of the migrant in Mistry's and Rushdie's work engages with ideas of accountability, political responsibility, and with notions of cosmopolitanism. In doing so, I question familiar assumptions regarding the migrant condition as one of predominantly empowering political agency. I argue that, while both authors emphasise the importance of the migrant sustaining a critical engagement with India's politics, they also foreground the anxious difficulties of doing so. This difficulty informs Mistry's and Rushdie's divergent negotiation of their own position as migrant writers, and I examine how their fiction is marked by an anxiety over the adequacy of writing as a mode of political engagement with the crisis in secularism and the parochialisation of Bombay, and as a means of negotiating the politics of migrancy
Rewriting history : postmodern and postcolonial negotiations in the fiction of J.G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie
Full text linkThis thesis is a study of the rewriting of history in the work of four novelists: J. G. Farrell, Timothy Mo, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie. I argue that their work occupies a particular position that is both within contemporary British fiction, yet at one remove from it.
Their work is situated within the context of critiques of history that are the source of a conflict between postmodernism and postcolonialism. I suggest that each writer engages with postmodemist aesthetics often in an attempt to produce critical histones that bear witness to the voices of those hitherto silenced in conventional historiography. However, these novelists remain anxious as to the potential consequences of mobilising postmodernist models of history, particularly as to the problems this creates concerning historical reference. The thesis aims to
identify the range of related attitudes to postmodernist critiques of history at this particular juncture of contemporary fiction in English.
I approach the specific position of the novelists under study through Homi Bhabha's work on the confluence of the postmodern and the postcolonial, focusing in particular on his suggestion that the postmodem refutation of Western epistemology enables a postcolonial space where a new range of histories emerge. Because each writer works between at least two cultures, and primarily within Britain, they negotiate from within received epistemology in an attempt to locate a space at its boundaries where conventional forms of knowledge no longer have efficacy. However, in contrast to Bhabha, these writers struggle to reach this space and remain sceptical as to the usefulness of postmodernism in making available new forms of
historiography. Ultimately, their work enables a critique of current ways of theorising the relationship between the postmodem and the postcolonial in literary studies
The Salman Rushdie controversy, religious plurality and established religion in England
Full text linkThis thesis argues that the Salman Rushdie controversy has a range of "entails" which focus and contribute to the need for a reconsideration of the complex constitutional
nexus of religion, society and state currently embodied in the establishment of the Church of England.
Chapter 1: The Introduction, acknowledges the academic and professional contexts that have informed the thesis. It clarifies the central research questions, defines the
boundaries of the research and sets out the arguments in brief.
Chapter 2: The Contours of the Controversy, charts the principal features of the controversy as it developed between 1988 and the end of 1995, primarily by
highlighting the "critical incidents" during 1989.
Chapter 3: The Controversy: Actions and Reactions outlines a range of positions taken up within the controversy and concludes by distilling five clusters of issues (social,
religious, cultural, legal and political) which it is argued have "entails" for established religion in England.
Chapter 4 on Established Religion, The Controversy and the Issues outlines the inheritance of established religion in England. It brings the identified clusters of issues
into critical interaction with debates around this inheritance and the constitutional nexus which it represents for the contemporary relationships between religion(s), state and society in England. Finally, some alternative patterns for structuring these relationships are examined.
Chapter 5 on Towards a New Socio-Religious Contract concludes the thesis by arguing that, in the context of the changed composition of English society and the public
policies and community responses adopted in relation to these changes, the "entails" of the Rushdie controversy signal the arrival of a "kairos" for established religion and the need for negotiating a new "socio-religious contract. " Some alternative models are debated for symbolising, structuring and operationalising the relationships between religion(s), state and society in England within the UK, and a proposal is made for
what is argued to be a more theoretically coherent and practically appropriate way forward than either the current form of established religion or the other identified
possibilities
The translation of identity in the satanic verses: a love song to our mongrel selves
Full text linkThis thesis examines the translation of character identities within Salman Rushdie's novel, The Satanic Verses, and seeks to demonstrate how the dynamics of translating a text can be used as a model for discussing the transformations of characters within the book. Rushdie uses the term "translation" as a metaphor for the migrant experience of uprootedness that is a result of being "borne across" from one culture to another. From it, however, can be derived a metaphor for the universal experience of alienation that is a part of our shared humanity, and which describes the process of responding to a sense of "otherness" within ourselves and within a pluralistic culture. The framework which will be used to examine characters within The Satanic Verses responding to such conditions is George Steiner's translation hermeneutic outlined and discussed In his book. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation. The Introduction will set the context for the use of the term "translation”. Chapter One will discuss Steiner's position within translation theory and Rushdie's affinity to it as well as explain the basic translation model. Chapters Two through Five will look closely at Rushdie's text, analyzing the two protagonists, Gibreel and Saladin, as they undergo, or fail to undergo, the translation process. Finally, the conclusion will suggest that the Rushdie affair engendered by this novel is, ironically, a linguistic debate provoked by a text that urges its readers to be translated. By making its readers acutely aware of what is "other" to them, the The Satanic Verses proposes and attempts to answer a single, profoundly religious, question: "How are we to live in the world?
A Conversation with Salman Rushdie
No full textIn this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 25, 2008, as part of the 39th Annual UND Writers Conference: “Revolutions,” Salman Rushdie reads excerpts from The Enchantress of Florence. Rushdie also responds to a number of questions ranging from issues surrounding The Satanic Verses to what literature has influenced his work to when he met Madonna, among others. “A Great Conversation with Salman Rushdie” was also one of the first events for UND’s 125th Anniversary Celebration.
Introduced by President Charles Kupchella.
Conversation moderated by Dr. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, Department of English
Replication data for: Diplomatische editie van het Dagboek van Isaac Pool
No full textTGaat hier om de diplomatische editie van een dagboek van de Amsterdamse Koopman Isaac Pool.
Een gemengde editie/uitgave is recent gepubliceerd: Laurence Duquesnoy en Jeroen Salman (red.), De handelsgeest van Isaac Pool Dagboek van een Amsterdammer in de Gouden Eeuw. Verloren: Hilversum 2018. ISBN: 9789087047160. Graag hiernaar verwijzen
Pedlars and the dissemination of the printed word
No full textThis is a Access database containing biographical information about Dutch Pedlars in the period 1600-1850. It was created during a five year research project (subsidized by NWO) entitled: Pedlars and the dissemination of the printed word (1600-1850). The projectleader was dr Jeroen Salman of Utrecht University. The information is mainly based on archival sources in the archives of Utrecht and Amsterdam. This database provided the data for my monograph Pedlars and the Popular Press. Itinerant distribution networks in England and the Netherlands 1600-1850 (Brill Publishers, Leiden and Boston, 2013)
Norwich University cadets, approximately 1917-1920
No full textBlack-and-white candid group portrait of two Norwich University cadets, tentatively identified as including Harold "Doc" Martin (Class of 1920), from the personal papers of Harry Bennett Salman (Class of 1921).Identity of photographer is unknown
Harold D. Martin, approximately 1917-1920
No full textBlack-and-white group portrait of Harold "Doc" Martin, a member of the Class of 1920 at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont, from the personal papers of Harry Bennett Salman (Class of 1921).Identity of photographer is unknown
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