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Making Sense of the Americas
"From anti-Reagan riots in West Berlin to pictures of revolutionary Nicaragua, it is often impossible to grasp social protest movements of the 1980s without referring to how they imagined "the Americas". This edited volume is aimed at historicizing the representations of the United States and of Latin America among Western European protesters around that decade. By researching dominant interpretation patterns, practices and symbols within these movements, this book offers a fresh and compelling look at protest in the second half of the 20th century."--Page 4 of cover.
Postcolonial Studies Across the Disciplines
Bringing together contributions from various disciplines and academic fields, this collection engages in interdisciplinary dialogue on postcolonial issues. Covering African, anglophone, Romance, and New-World themes, linguistic, literary, and cultural studies, and historiography, music, art history, and textile studies, the volume raises questions of (inter)disciplinarity, methodology, and entangled histories. The essays focus on the representation of slavery in the transatlantic world (the USA, Jamaica, Haiti, and the wider Caribbean, West Africa, and the UK). Drawing on a range of historical sources, material objects, and representations, they study Jamaican Creole, African masks, knitted ...
Traditions Can Be Changed
Whether and to what extent African states and societies have been able to break away from colonial impact is a still contentious issue. Harald Barre considers newspapers and academic activism in Tanzania as forums in which the project of an independent African nation was shaped through heated debates. Examining the changing discourses on race and gender in the 1960s and 1970s, he reveals that equating difference with inequality in the national narrative was fiercely contested. Pervasive images rooted in colonialism were thus challenged and in some cases fundamentally transformed by journalists, students, (inter)national scholars, (inter)national events and the promise of an egalitarian socialist state.
Nicaragua Must Survive
Nicaragua Must Survive tells the story of the Sandinistas' innovative diplomatic campaign, which captured the imaginations of people around the globe and transformed Nicaraguan history at the tail end of the Cold War. The Sandinistas' diplomacy went far beyond elite politics, as thousands of musicians, politicians, teachers, activists, priests, feminists, and journalists flocked to the country to experience the revolution firsthand. Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews, Eline van Ommen reveals the role that Western Europe played in Nicaragua's revolutionary diplomacy. Blending grassroots organizing and formal foreign policy, pragmatic guerrillas, creative diplomats, and ambitious activists from Europe and the Americas were able to create an international environment in which the Sandinista Revolution could survive despite the odds. Nicaragua Must Survive argues that this diplomacy was remarkably effective, propelling Nicaragua into the global limelight and allowing the revolutionaries to successfully challenge the United States' role in Central America.
Women in Music
An index to the biographies of women musicians of all periods and countries, as found in a representative selection of dictionaries, and encyclopedias. This update also includes non-musical sources, such as general biographical sets.
Botschafter der Revolution
Die sandinistische Revolution führte zwischen 1977 und 1990 zu einem Boom transnationaler Solidarität mit Nicaragua. Allein in der Bundesrepublik engagierten sich zeitweise über 300 Gruppen aus dem linken Spektrum sowie aus christlichen und liberalen Kreisen für die Ziele der Sandinisten. Ein Schlüssel zum Verständnis der Nicaragua-Solidarität liegt im erfolgreichen Aufbau eines transnationalen Netzwerks, über das Informationen, mentale Bilder und Aktivisten zwischen beiden Ländern zirkulieren konnten. Besonders die Vorstellungen, die unter den Solidaritätsbewegten zu Nicaragua kursierten, entfalteten ein enormes Identifikations- und Motivationspotenzial. An der Konstruktion solche...
