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Elena Poniatowskas Roman Tinissima hält das kurze leidenschaftliche Leben der Tina Modotti (1896-1942) fest, das von Liebe, Kunst und politischer Untergrundarbeit geprägt war. Als Kind italienischer Einwanderer kommt Tina 1913 nach San Francisco, wo sie als „exotische Schönheit“ in Theater und Stummfilm auftritt. Sie erlebt die Atmosphäre geistiger und sexueller Befreiung in den dortigen Künstlerkreisen, lernt Edward Weston kennen - einen der großen Fotografen dieses Jahrhunderts - und wird sein Modell und seine begeisterte Schülerin. Zwischen ihnen beginnt eine Liebesbeziehung, die sie in das pulsierende Mexiko der zwanziger Jahre führt, das sich euphorisch der Welt öffnet. Ihr Haus wird Treffpunkt mexikanischer und ausländischer Künstler, unter ihnen Diego Rivera, der sie auf einem seiner Wandgemälde darstellt. Tina entwickelt sich zur Fotografin mit sozialem Impetus und ausgeprägtem Sinn für die Schönheit der Dinge. Zur gleichen Zeit engagiert sie sich, wie viele ihrer Künstlerfreunde, auf Seiten der revolutionären Linken. In diesen bewegten Jahren lebt Tina die Fülle ihrer künstlerischen und persönlichen Leidenschaften, sie erfährt bewundernde Anerkennung als Frau und steht im Austausch mit den interessantesten Gestalten im brodelnden Mexiko. Da geschieht im Januar 1929 das Unfaßbare: Ihr Liebhaber, der Politemigrant Julio Antonio Mella, wird von Agenten des kubanischen Diktators Machado auf offener Straße erschossen. Tina wird verdächtigt, in einen „Mord aus Eifersucht“ verwickelt zu sein. Die Boulevardpresse zerrt ihre Liebesaffären ans Licht und druckt Westons Aktfotos von ihr. Sie wird des Landes verwiesen, ihr Leben nimmt eine entscheidende Wendung. Von diesem traumatischen Einschnitt aus erzählt Elena Poniatowska Tina Modottis Leben. Die einfühlsame und spannende Romanbiographie geht Tinas Kindheit in Udine nach, folgt ihr nach der Ausweisung aus dem geliebten Mexiko ins Berlin der Vornazizeit, in die politische Untergrundarbeit an der Schaltstelle in Moskau und in den Spanischen Bürgerkrieg. Ihre letzten Jahre lebte Tina zurückgezogen und unter falschem Namen in Mexiko-Stadt, wo sie 1942 in einem Taxi stirbt. Durch die Kraft ihrer Einfühlung verschmilzt Elena Poniatowska Nähe und Distanz zur schillernden Gestalt Tina Modottis so nahtlos miteinander, daß daraus die mitreißende und ganz unsentimentale Lebensgeschichte einer außergewöhnlichen Frau entsteht, das eindringliche Dokument eines widersprüchlichen Lebens. Ganz von innen heraus, durch die Augen Tina Modottis, erleben wir die Atmosphäre dieser unruhigen Epoche, ihren chaotischen, sektiererischen, gewalttätigen, vergnügungssüchtigen, großzügigen Geist, wie er sich etwa in Diego Rivera verkörperte - und eben in Tina Modotti, die ihr Talent und ihre Energie einer Sache lieh, an die sie fest glaubte.
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If England was 'the first industrial nation', Lancashire was emphatically the first industrial county the first to develop, over a wide area, the combination of steam-powered factory industry and urban sprawl which says 'Industrial Revolution' to most people. It was also one the first fully industrialised areas to experience catastrophic economic decline in the inter-war years. Much has been written about particular aspects of the Lancashire industrial experience, and the social causes and consequences of the changes that took place, but there is not full-length social history of the county as a whole, looking at developments in the long run and comparing and contrasting the patterns of change in the south-eastern textile district, on Merseyside and north of the Ribble. An explanation of Lancashire's unique social history since Elizabethan times is long overdue, and Lancashire a social history, 1558-1939 puts forward a distinctive point of view on the many areas of controversy. How did the 'Industrial Revolution' affect working-class living standards? Why did Lancashire become a stronghold both of Puritan activism and Roman Catholic survival, and what were the long-term consequences of this? Was the 'Industrial Revolution' really funded by the profits of the slave trade? Why was working-class Lancashire in the nineteenth century apparently first Chartist, then Conservative? Was Lancashire the original centre and true home of 'Victorian values', of a culture of thrift, enterprise and self-reliance? This is the first social history of an English county to span the centuries from the sixteenth to the twentieth, looking at all levels of society and analysing politics and the power structures as well as technological innovation and material wealth. More importantly, it studies a particular vital and controversial place and period, and takes account of continuities as well as changes. Aimed at the sixth former and general reader as well as the academic market, it should become essential reading for historians, and historical geographers, sociologists and economists. ;
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This volume proposes new insights into the uses of classical mythology by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, focusing on interweaving processes in early modern appropriations of myth. Its 11 essays show how early modern writing intertwines diverse myths and plays with variant versions of individual myths that derive from multiple classical sources, as well as medieval, Tudor and early modern retellings and translations. Works discussed include poems and plays by William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and others. Essays concentrate on specific plays including The Merchant of Venice and Dido Queen of Carthage, tracing interactions between myths, chronicles, the Bible and contemporary genres. Mythological figures are considered to demonstrate how the weaving together of sources deconstructs gendered representations. New meanings emerge from these readings, which open up methodological perspectives on multi-textuality, artistic appropriation and cultural hybridity.
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Fools and idiots? is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, Irina Metzler considers a neglected field of social and medical history and makes an original contribution to the problem of a shifting concept such as 'idiocy'. Medieval physicians, lawyers and the schoolmen of the emerging universities wrote the texts which shaped medieval definitions of intellectual ability and its counterpart, disability. In studying such texts, which form part of our contemporary scientific and cultural heritage, we gain a better understanding of which people were considered to be intellectually disabled, and how their participation and inclusion in society differed from the situation today. This book will be required reading for anyone studying or working in disability studies, history of medicine, social history and the history of ideas. ;
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This is the first book devoted to the cultural history in the pre-modern period of people we now describe as having learning disabilities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, including historical semantics, medicine, natural philosophy and law, it considers a neglected field of social and medical history and makes an original contribution to the problem of a shifting concept such as 'idiocy'. Medieval physicians, lawyers and the schoolmen of the emerging universities wrote the texts which shaped medieval definitions of intellectual ability and its counterpart, disability. In studying such texts, which form part of our contemporary scientific and cultural heritage, we gain a better understanding of which people were considered to be intellectually disabled and how their participation and inclusion in society differed from the situation today.
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