scholarly journals Narratives that travel across space and time: the intertextuality of Eliza Lynch

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anelise Reich Corseuil
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Public ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Narrative Forms

Resumo: Filmes contemporâneos sobre a viagem problematizam o conceito das fronteiras nacionais, as interrelações entre o público e o privado, e as formas narrativas utilizadas para representar os encontros inter-hemisféricos entre pessoas de diferentes raças e etnias. Os filmes podem ser vistos como leitura crítica de nossas economias globalizadas e seus deslocamentos atuais. Nesse contexto de produções culturais, pode-se situar o filme Eliza Lynch: a Rainha do Paraguay (2013) de Alan Gilsenan. O documentário dramático, que se pode definir como docudrama, sobre a vida de Eliza Alicia Lynch, retrata também as jornadas de Lynch no século XIX: da Irlanda a Paris, à Algéria, ao Paraguay, a Buenos Aires, e novamente a Paris. O presente trabalhoanalisa as formas como o filme Eliza Lynch: Rainha do Paraguay problematiza as diversas leituras realizadas sobre a vida de Eliza Lynch em suas relações com a nação Paraguaia e com Solano López. Palavras-chave: Eliza Lynch; Documentário; Guerra do Paraguai. Abstract: Contemporary films about travelling problematize the concept of the national frontiers, the interrelations between the private and the public, as well as the narrative forms used in the films themselves to convey hemispheric encounters among various peoples, as a form of critique of our own globalized economies and forms of dislocation. Eliza Lynch: Queen of Paraguay (2013) directed by Alan Gilsenan, can be included within this context. Gilsenan’s film, which can be defined as a docudrama about Eliza Alicia Lynch´s life, is also a movie about the journeys Lynch had to endure in the nineteenth century: from Ireland to Paris, to Algeria, to Paraguay, to Buenos Aires, and back to Paris again. This paper analyzes how Gilsenan´s film problematizes the various readings of Eliza Lynch´s life and travels and her relation with the Paraguayan nation and Solano López. Keywords: Eliza Lynch; Documentary; War of Paraguay

The Manifestation of Islam in Argentina

1996 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gladys Jozami
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Displays ◽  
Public Arena ◽  
Ethnoreligious Identity ◽  
Muslim Religiosity ◽  
Religious Aspects

In March 1995, a tragic incident understandably evoked public displays of Muslim religiosity in Buenos Aires. The incident—the death of the head of state's son—provoked the irruption of ritual and religious aspects of Islam, unknown to most Argentines, on the country's radio and television. The demise of president Carlos Menem's first-born brought into the public arena with a vengeance the issue of ethnoreligious identity that had been kept under wraps since the end of the nineteenth century as a matter for the intimacy of family and community.

Wives on “Deposit”: Internment and the Preservation of Husbands' Honor in Late Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires

1992 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Ruggiero
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Important Link ◽  
Public Nature ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Male Authority

In nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, “institutions of deposit” were often used instead of jails to house women who were in trouble with their husbands and the authorities, and therefore had to be interred while awaiting trial or for other reasons. The public nature of these institutions was seen as crucial for the shaming of women and for the development in them of a sense of repentance and reform. They can thus be interpreted as an important link in a chain of formal institutions and informal pressures that enforced male authority.

Reading Stratigraphical Woodscapes in Thomas Hardy's The Woodlanders

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-223
Author(s):  
Anna Burton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Local History ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Geological Work ◽  
Gideon Mantell ◽  
Modes Of Thought ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Visual Cultures

In The Woodlanders (1887), Hardy uses the texture of Hintock woodlands as more than description: it is a terrain of personal association and local history, a text to be negotiated in order to comprehend the narrative trajectory. However, upon closer analysis of these arboreal environs, it is evident that these woodscapes are simultaneously self-contained and multi-layered in space and time. This essay proposes that through this complex topographical construction, Hardy invites the reader to read this text within a physical and notional stratigraphical framework. This framework shares similarities with William Gilpin's picturesque viewpoint and the geological work of Gideon Mantell: two modes of vision that changed the observation of landscape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This comparative discussion at once reviews the perception of the arboreal prospect in nineteenth-century literary and visual cultures, and also questions the impact of these modes of thought on the woodscapes of The Woodlanders.

Are They Ready for Their Close-Up? Civil Servants and Their Portrayal in Contemporary American Cinema

Public Voices ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle C. Pautz ◽  
Laura Roselle
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Case Study Approach ◽  
The Public ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
American Cinema ◽  
Box Office ◽  
Narrative Forms

Perceptions of government and civil servants are shaped by a variety of factors including popular culture. In the public administration literature the significant role that film and other narrative forms have on citizens’ perceptions is duly noted, and there is ample research on politicians and military heroes in film, but a focus on civil servants remains largely elusive. Among the sparse literature centered on civil servants are studies that employ a case study approach or focus on a few films. In contrast, our research employs a large sample of 150 films. These films comprise the top ten box-office grossing films from 1992 through 2006; therefore we examine the films most likely to have been seen by a majority of movie-watching Americans. More than 60 percent of the films in our sample portray government as bad, inefficient, and incompetent. However, the data on more than 300 civil servants yield intriguing findings. Surprising, in light of the negative depiction of government, is the positive depiction of individual civil servants. Half of civil servants were positively portrayed, and only 40 percent were negatively depicted. Americans may view government negatively, but they see in film positive depictions of how individual civil servants can and do make a positive difference.

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cassandra L. Yacovazzi
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Monastic Life ◽  
The Common ◽  
Public Imagination ◽  
Maria Monk ◽  
People Today

Nuns in popular media today are a staple of kitsch culture, evident in the common appearance of bobble-head nuns, nun costumes, and nun caricatures on TV, movies, and the stage. Nun stereotypes include the sexy vixen, the naïve innocent, and the scary nun. These types were forged in nineteenth-century convent narratives. While people today may not recognize the name “Maria Monk,” her legacy lives on in the public imagination. There may be no demands to search convents, but nuns and monastic life are nevertheless generally not taken seriously. This epilogue traces opposition to nuns from the Civil War to the present, analyzing the various images of nuns in popular culture as they relate to the antebellum campaign against convents. It argues that the source of the misunderstanding about nuns is rooted in the inability to categorize these women either as traditional wives and mothers or as secular, career-driven singles.

International Opera in Nineteenth-century New York

2020 ◽  
pp. 244-269
Author(s):  
Karen Ahlquist
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
World War I ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Considerable Extent ◽  
World War ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
The City

This chapter charts how canonic repertories evolved in very different forms in New York City during the nineteenth century. The unstable succession of entrepreneurial touring troupes that visited the city adapted both repertory and individual pieces to the audience’s taste, from which there emerged a major theater, the Metropolitan Opera, offering a mix of German, Italian, and French works. The stable repertory in place there by 1910 resembles to a considerable extent that performed in the same theater today. Indeed, all of the twenty-five operas most often performed between 1883 and 2015 at the Metropolitan Opera were written before World War I. The repertory may seem haphazard in its diversity, but that very condition proved to be its strength in the long term. This chapter is paired with Benjamin Walton’s “Canons of real and imagined opera: Buenos Aires and Montevideo, 1810–1860.”

The Languages of Petitioning in Early Colonial India

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 581-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Jaffe
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Western India ◽  
Rhetorical Strategies ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Levels

With relatively few exceptions, personal petitions from individuals have received much less attention from historians than those from groups in the public political sphere. In one sense, personal petitions adopted many of the same rhetorical strategies as those delivered by a group. However, they also offer unique insights into the quotidian relationship between the people and their rulers. This article examines surviving personal petitions to various administrators at different levels of government in western India during the decades surrounding the East India Company’s conquests. The analysis of these petitions helps to refine our understanding of the place of the new judicial system in the social world of early-nineteenth-century India, especially by illuminating the discourse of justice that petitioners brought to the presentation of their cases to their new governors. The conclusion of this article seeks to place the rhetoric of personal petitioning within the larger context of mass political petitioning in India during the early nineteenth century.

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