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In the early 1930's, the International Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers
through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and
community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the
overwhelming majority of whom were women, into racially integrated
local unions and created structures to celebrate ethnic
differences. All Together Different revolves around this phenomenon
of interracial union building and worker education during the Great
Depression. Investigating why immigrant Jewish unionists in the
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) appealed to an
international force of coworkers, Katz traces their ideology of a
working-class based cultural pluralism, which Daniel Katz newly
terms "mutual culturalism," back to the revolutionary experiences
of Russian Jewish women. These militant women and their male allies
constructed an ethnic identity derived from Yiddish socialist
tenets based on the principle of autonomous national cultures in
the late nineteenth century Russian Empire. Built on original
scholarship and bolstered by exhaustive research, All Together
Different offers a fresh perspective on the nature of ethnic
identity and working-class consciousness and contributes to current
debates about the origins of multiculturalism.
Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an
American master Be Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco
Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his
blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating
will to truth everywhere on display. Much of the poetry here has
never before been published, but the volume also includes much
out-of-print or hard to find work, as well as Spicer's three major
plays, which have never been collected. Here one finds major
unfinished projects, early and alternate versions of well-known
Spicer poems, shimmering stand-alone lyrics, and intricate extended
"books" and serial poems. This new cache of Spicer material will be
indispensable for any student of 20th century American poetry,
proffering a trove of primary material for Spicer's growing
readership to savor and enjoy. "When your body brushed against me.
. ." When your body brushed against me I remembered How we used to
catch butterflies in our hands Down in the garden. We were such
patient children Following them from flower to flower Waiting and
hoping. With our cupped hands we used to catch them And they
answered us with a soft tickle For they never stopped flying. In
bed I remembered them and cried for The touch of their fast wings,
the impatience Of their bright colors I am too old for such games
But even tonight, now your body has reminded me of butterflies I
lie here awake, pretending.
At a time of high unemployment, failing economies and slashed
public spending, what does the future hold? On the heels of the
expansive Occupy movement, the lessons of history are a vital
handhold for the thousands of activists and citizens everywhere who
sense that something has gone terribly wrong. This pithy yet
accessible volume provides readers with an understanding of the
history that is directly relevant to the economic and political
crises working people face today. Labor Rising points the way to a
revitalized 21st century labour movement.
Indispensable volume of previously unavailable poetry by an
American master Be Brave to Things shows legendary San Francisco
Renaissance poet Jack Spicer at the top of his form, with his
blistering intelligence, painful double-edged wit, and devastating
will to truth everywhere on display. Most of the poetry here has
never before been published, but the volume also includes much
out-of-print or hard to find work, as well as Spicer's three major
plays, which have never been collected. Here one finds major
unfinished projects, early and alternate versions of well-known
Spicer poems, shimmering stand-alone lyrics, and intricate extended
"books" and serial poems. This new cache of Spicer material will be
indispensable for any student of 20th century American poetry,
proffering a trove of primary material for Spicer's growing
readership to savor and enjoy. "When your body brushed against me.
. ." When your body brushed against me I remembered How we used to
catch butterflies in our hands Down in the garden. We were such
patient children Following them from flower to flower Waiting and
hoping. With our cupped hands we used to catch them And they
answered us with a soft tickle For they never stopped flying. In
bed I remembered them and cried for The touch of their fast wings,
the impatience Of their bright colors I am too old for such games
But even tonight, now your body has reminded me of butterflies I
lie here awake, pretending.
This is the first full-length critical monograph on Jack Spicer's
work. In the years since his death from alcohol poisoning, San
Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965) has gradually
come to be recognized as one of most intriguing, demanding, and
rewarding of the so-called 'New American Poetry' poets who were
first published in Donald Allen's historic anthology of that name.
Informed by much archival material only recently made available,
The Poetry of Jack Spicer, examines Spicer's post-Poundian
translation projects; his crucial theories of the 'serial poem' and
inspiration as 'dictation'; his contrarian take on queer poetics;
his insistently uncanny regionalism; and his elaboration of an
epistolary poetics of interpellation and address.
Additional Author Lucretia G. Floor. Edited By Julia Braun Kessler.
Foreword By Rensis Likert.
Additional Author Lucretia G. Floor. Edited By Julia Braun Kessler.
Foreword By Rensis Likert.
In the early 1930's, the International Ladies' Garment Workers'
Union (ILGWU) organized large numbers of Black and Hispanic workers
through a broadly conceived program of education, culture, and
community involvement. The ILGWU admitted these new members, the
overwhelming majority of whom were women, into racially integrated
local unions and created structures to celebrate ethnic
differences. All Together Different revolves around this phenomenon
of interracial union building and worker education during the Great
Depression. Investigating why immigrant Jewish unionists in the
International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) appealed to an
international force of coworkers, Katz traces their ideology of a
working-class based cultural pluralism, which Daniel Katz newly
terms "mutual culturalism," back to the revolutionary experiences
of Russian Jewish women. These militant women and their male allies
constructed an ethnic identity derived from Yiddish socialist
tenets based on the principle of autonomous national cultures in
the late nineteenth century Russian Empire. Built on original
scholarship and bolstered by exhaustive research, All Together
Different offers a fresh perspective on the nature of ethnic
identity and working-class consciousness and contributes to current
debates about the origins of multiculturalism.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Psychologie -
Beratung, Therapie, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0,
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (Psychologie &
Padagogik), Veranstaltung: Kernfachseminar, 24 Quellen im
Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Was tun
gluckliche Paare, um sich in ihrer Beziehung als wichtig und
wirksam zu erfahren? Gibt es einen verborgenen Bauplan fur ein in
Liebe gelebtes Leben? In der vorliegenden Hausarbeit wird zunachst
die Entstehung von Partnerschaften anhand von Partnerwahl- und
Attraktionstheorien behandelt. Weiter werden die verschiedenen
Modelle zur Paarbeziehung besonders unter dem Aspekt der
Paarkommunikation erortert, um schliesslich zur Frage zu gelangen,
welche Aufgaben gluckliche Paare bewaltigen und welche Kompetenzen
sie entwickeln. Was sind die Kennzeichen gelingender
Partnerschaften
Examining three literary traditions - post-1960 Asian American,
Asian Canadian and Black experimental poetry - this book reframes
contemporary scholarly accounts of post-war North American
comparative racial group formation, demonstrating how such poetry
investigates contemporary Black-Asian relations and maps the
complex co-constitution of race and capitalism at different spatial
scales. Offering extended close readings of contemporary Black,
Asian American and Asian Canadian experimental poets such as Myung
Mi Kim, Erica Hunt, Larissa Lai and Ed Roberson, this book argues
that these writers redefine race as a changing and politically
contested form of constraint and possibility powerfully shaped by
economic history and capitalist globalization. This study
retheorizes some basic terms of analysis of contemporary US poetry
and poetics, critical race and ethnic studies, racial capitalism
and contemporary theories of comparative and relational
racialization.
This study takes as its point of departure an essential premise:
that the widespread phenomenon of expatriation in American
modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical
return to it, but one which renders uncanny all tropes of
familiarity and immediacy which 'fatherlands' and 'mother tongues'
are traditionally seen as providing. In this framework, similarly
totalizing notions of cultural authenticity are seen to govern both
exoticist mystification and 'nativist' obsessions with the purity
of the 'mother tongue.' At the same time, cosmopolitanism,
translation, and multilingualism become often eroticized tropes of
violation of this model, and in consequence, simultaneously courted
and abhorred, in a movement which, if crystallized in expatriate
modernism, continued to make its presence felt beyond.
Beginning with the late work of Henry James, this book goes on
to examine at length Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, to conclude
with the uncanny regionalism of mid-century San Francisco
Renaissance poet Jack Spicer, and the deterritorialized aesthetic
of Spicer's peer, John Ashbery. Through an emphasis on modernism as
a space of generalized interference, the practice and trope of
translation emerges as central to all of the writers concerned,
while the book remains in constant dialogue with key recent works
on transnationalism, transatlanticism, and modernism.
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