Anglo-American and Polish Proverbs as Linguistic Representation of Traditional Values

Independent of each other, though contemporaneous, the Anglo-American occupiers of Germany and the newly founded United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization employed culture to foster greater intercultural and international understanding in 1945. Both enterprises separately saw culture as offering a means of securing the peace in the long term. This article compares the stated intentions and activities of the Anglo-American occupiers and UNESCO vis-à-vis transforming morals and public opinion in Germany for the better after World War II. It reconceptualizes the mobilization of culture to transform Germany through engaging theories of cultural diplomacy and propaganda. It argues that rather than merely engaging in propaganda in the negative sense, elements of these efforts can also be viewed as propaganda in the earlier, morally neutral sense of the term, despite the fact that clear geopolitical aims lay at the heart of the cultural activities of both the occupiers and UNESCO.

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Reagan and Thatcher's Special Relationship

10.3366/edinburgh/9780748686063.001.0001 ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sally-Ann Treharne

Keyword(s):

Latin American ◽

Special Relationship ◽

Pivotal Moments ◽

Political Relationships ◽

Latin American Region ◽

The Us ◽

Anglo American ◽

Elite Interviews ◽

Personal Diplomacy ◽

The Cold War

Reagan and Thatcher’s Special Relationship offers a unique insight into one of the most controversial political relationships in recent history. An insightful and original study, it provides a new regionally focused approach to the study of Anglo-American relations. The Falklands War, the US invasion of Grenada, the Anglo-Guatemalan dispute over Belize and the US involvement in Nicaragua are vividly reconstructed as Latin American crises that threatened to overwhelm a renewal in US-UK relations in the 1980s. Reagan and Thatcher’s efforts to normalise relations, both during and after the crises, reveal a mutual desire to strengthen Anglo-American ties and to safeguard individual foreign policy objectives whilst cultivating a close personal and political bond that was to last well beyond their terms in office. This ground-breaking reappraisal analyses pivotal moments in their shared history by drawing on the extensive analysis of recently declassified documents while elite interviews reveal candid recollections by key protagonists providing an alternative vantage point from which to assess the contentious ‘Special Relationship’. Sally-Ann Treharne offers a compelling look into the role personal diplomacy played in overcoming obstacles to Anglo-American relations emanating from the turbulent Latin American region in the final years of the Cold War.

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Blackness, Imperialism, and Nationalism in Dominican Children's Literature

International Research in Children s Literature ◽

10.3366/ircl.2019.0290 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 47-61

Author(s):

Stacy Ann Creech

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Children's Literature ◽

Young People ◽

Educational Reform ◽

Children’S Literature ◽

Anglo American ◽

Specific Construction

From pre-Columbian times through to the twentieth century, Dominican children's literature has struggled to define itself due to pressures from outside forces such as imperialism and colonialism. This paper examines the socio-political contexts within Dominican history that determined the kind of literature available to children, which almost exclusively depicted a specific construction of indigeneity, European or Anglo-American characters and settings, in an effort to efface the country's African roots. After the Educational Reform of 1993 was instituted, however, there has been a promising change in the field, as Dominican writers are engaged in producing literature for young people that includes more accurate representations of Blackness and multiculturalism.

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Modernism Under Review: Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era

Modernist Cultures ◽

10.3366/mod.2010.0102 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 181-194

Author(s):

Marjorie Perloff

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

First World War ◽

World War ◽

The Past ◽

The First World War ◽

Anglo American ◽

First World

This essay offers a critical re-assessment of Hugh Kenner's The Pound Era. It argues that Kenner's magisterial survey remains important to our understanding of Modernism, despite its frankly partisan viewpoint. Kenner's is an insider's account of the Anglo-American Modernist writing that he takes to have been significant because it sought to invent a new language consonant with the ethos of the twentieth century. The essay suggests that Kenner's impeccable attention to the Modernist renovation of language goes beyond formalism, since, for him, its ‘patterned energies’ (a term derived from Buckminster Fuller's theory of knots) relate Modernism to the larger complex of artefacts within which it functions and, beyond these, to what he takes to be the great works of the past and to the scientific-technological inventions of the present. But the essay also points out that Kenner's is an eccentric canon, which makes no room for Forster, Frost, Lawrence, or Stevens. Furthermore, Kenner's emphasis on the First World War as a great cultural rupture, while plausible, works less well for Joyce and Williams than it does for Pound and Eliot.

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The Blue Flower and the Account Book

Pacific Historical Review ◽

10.1525/phr.2016.85.1.1 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 85 (1) ◽

pp. 1-22

Author(s):

Anne F. Hyde

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

North American ◽

American West ◽

Fur Trade ◽

Blue Flower ◽

Racial Category ◽

North American West ◽

Mixed Blood ◽

Anglo American

This essay, a revised version of the August 2015 talk, examines the story of two mixed-blood women, indigenous and Anglo American, who lived in the fur trade North American West. The essay examines a racial category, mixed blood or “half-breed” and considers the challenges for people who lived in and used that category in the nineteenth century. The essay illuminates the challenges of using different kinds of personal records to understand how these nineteenth-century women might have thought about identity, a word they never would have used.

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