FOSTER, JOHN BURT JR. Transnational Tolstoy: Between the West and the World. New York, London, New Delhi, Sydney: Bloomsbury (Literary Studies), 2013. 248 pp.  17.99. ISBN 978-1-4411-5770-6

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 506-506
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
The West ◽  
The World

9/11 as a European Event: the Novels

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRISTIAAN VERSLUYS
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
French Novel ◽  
Common Destiny

At the time of writing, more than 20 novels have been written that deal directly or indirectly with the events of 9/11. In broad outlines, they fall under four categories: the novel of recuperation, the novel of first-hand witnessing, the great New York novel, and the novel of the outsider. It is the last category of novels – written by non-Americans – that demonstrates the extent to which 11 September has penetrated deep into the European psyche and thus has become a European event. What is surprising is that the gap between the continents seems smaller in fiction than in politics. Even Luc Lang's onze septembre mon amour, a strident anti-American screed, is characterized by a sense of solidarity for the victims and for an alternative America, antithetical to the official one. In Frédéric Beigbeder's Windows on the World (a French novel with an English title), Europe and the US remain united in the overarching concept of the West, sharing a common destiny. In Ian McEwan's Saturday, finally, the events in the US have become part and parcel of the protagonist's existence, even though he lives thousands of miles away in the posh part of London.

scholarly journals Advancing Muslim-Christian Dialogue Today

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-115
Author(s):  
David L. Johnston
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The West ◽  
Van Gogh ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The World ◽  
London Bombings ◽  
Religious Crisis ◽  
Oxford University Press

Books Reviewed: Philip Jenkins, God’s Continent: Christianity, Islam, andEurope’s Religious Crisis. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,2007; Jane Idleman Smith, Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge ofInterfaith Dialogue. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007;Irfan A. Omar, ed., A Muslim View of Christianity: Essays on Dialogue byMahmoud Ayoub. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis, 2007.Not surprisingly, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent comments aboutintegrating more of Shari`ah law within the United Kingdom’s legal systemraised a firestorm of protest in Britain and in many parts of the world. Yetfor twenty-five years already, Britain’s Muslims have been using Shari`ahlaw in community arbitration; by simply adding elements of Islamicjurisprudence in family matters, Muslims would be able to settle mostdivorce cases through arbitration, thus freeing up already congested divorcecourts. Why is this suggestion so outrageous?The only explanation for the deluge of complaints has to do with thesuper-charged and dangerously polarized socio-cultural and religious atmosphereof the “West” in the 2000s. Besides 9/11, other events have contributedto the ratcheting-up of Muslim-European tension: the Danish cartoon saga;the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo Van Gogh; the London bombings;the “Fitna” film; and, most recently, the tendentious DVD distributedto nearly 30 million American households in swing states during the presidentialcampaign, “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West.” Withright-wing politicians determined to raise the specter of “Islamofascism,” anymention of including aspects of the Shari`ah in “enlightened” secular legalstructures is enough to give some people fits of panic.Yet this is the context in which we must insert the three books underreview, each of which examines a particular aspect of today’s vastly complexMuslim-Christian relationship. Philip Jenkins marshals his consider ...

RESPONSE TO JENNER'S EPOCHAL ANNOUNCEMENT OF 1798

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 37 (6) ◽  
pp. 921-923
Author(s):  
John A Washington
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Measles Vaccine ◽  
The West ◽  
East Indies ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Poliomyelitis Vaccine ◽  
The World ◽  
Resident Surgeon ◽  
Tropical Climates

To Pediatricians long in practice the administration of Salk and Sabin poliomyelitis vaccines and the use of measles vaccine have been exciting and gratifying experiences. That the advent of the new vaccination against smallpox was similarly stirring to alert physicians of 1800 is evidenced by the following excerpts from Samuel Scofield's Treatise on Vaccina or Cowpock published in 1810.1 The prospect of controlling this scourge stimulated a widespread demand somewhat comparable to that for poliomyelitis vaccine. Facilities for communication, supply, and transport were so vastly inferior that the extensiveness of its use in a few years time is surprising. Eleven years have now elapsed since the world was put into possession of this inestimable blessing by the accurate and indefatigable Jenner. . . . The Cowpock Inoculation has been practiced in every quarter of the Globe. . . . In the West-Indies I have witnessed the most salutory effects from it in preserving the Blacks from smallpox, which so frequently commits the most terrible ravages in tropical climates. It has received the patronage of every government under whose cognizance it has come and in many countries, as America, Great Britain, France, Italy. . . . institutions have been established for the gratuitous inoculation of the poor. In January, 1802, an institution was established in this city (New York) for the purpose of vaccinating the poor gratis. . . . To this establishment the author of the present treatise was appointed Resident Surgeon. . . . From late accounts we are informed that the Cowpock has been received in the East-Indies with the greatest enthusiasm and many millions have already been vaccinated.

CALAMITIES VS CYCLES

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 164-164
Author(s):  
Student
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Self ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
The West ◽  
Global Event ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
First World

AIDS quickly became a global event—discussed not only in New York, Paris, Rio, Kinshasa but also in Helsinki, Buenos Aires, Beijing, and Singapore—when it was far from the leading cause of death in Africa, much less in the world. There are famous diseases, as there are famous countries, and these are not necessarily the ones with the biggest populations. AIDS did not become so famous just because it afflicts whites too, as some Africans bitterly assert. But it is certainly true that were AIDS only an African disease, however many millions were dying, few outside of Africa would be concerned with it. It would be one of those "natural" events, like famines, which periodically ravage poor, overpopulated countries and about which people in rich countries feel quite helpless. Because it is a world event—that is, because it affects the West—it is regarded as not just a natural disaster. It is filled with historical meaning. (Part of the self-definition of Europe and the neo-European countries is that it, the First World, is where major calamities are history-making, transformative, while in poor, African or Asian countries they are part of a cycle, and therefore something like an aspect of nature.)

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