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Dans la matinée du 26 juin 1917, alors que les premiers contingents du corps expéditionnaire américain débarquent à Saint-Nazaire, la Première Guerre mondiale entre dans une dimension nouvelle. Avec l’arrivée de ceux que l’on nomme les Doughboys, le conflit achève de se globaliser, exigeant toujours plus de chacun des belligérants. Cette réalité, c’est celle d’une guerre que l’on dit « totale » et c’est précisément ce que souhaite interroger cet ouvrage. En examinant finement, à l’échelle de la région de Saint-Nazaire, les conséquences de la présence américaine entre 1917 et 1919, Erwan Le Gall plonge aux sources de l’idée de guerre « totale », rappelant que celle-ci est moins une vérité observée qu’un appel vers un absolu pour une mobilisation toujours plus complète de la sphère civile au service de l’armée. Or des discours aux actes, il y a parfois un gouffre. C’est ainsi que certains acteurs paraissent s’accommoder fort bien du conflit, à condition que celui-ci ne nuise pas à leurs intérêts propres. Se font alors jour des forces qu’il convient d’analyser sous l’angle d’une certaine « détotalisation » de la guerre en cours.

Humanities, Multidisciplinary --- History & Archaeology --- History --- armée --- France --- Grande Guerre --- army --- First World War --- history --- World War I --- WW1 --- erster weltkrieg --- frankreich --- wehr --- amerikaner

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Devoted to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out following the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, tHIS text explores the consequences for the Chinese and for the USA as a nation of immigrants.

Kines-amerikaner --- Sociala förhållanden --- Rasrelationer --- a Invandrare --- Chinese Americans --- Immigrants --- Chinese --- Ethnology --- Social conditions --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History. --- History --- United States --- China --- Emigration and immigration --- Government policy. --- Race relations. --- Race question

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"Until now few people have been aware of the prevalence of belief in some form of rebirth or reincarnation among North American native peoples. This collection of essays by anthropologists and one psychiatrist examines this concept among native American societies, from near the time of contact until the present day. Amerindian Rebirth opens with a foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere that contrasts North American and Hindu Buddhist Jain beliefs. The introduction gives an overview, and the first chapter summarizes the context, distribution, and variety of recorded belief. All the papers chronicle some aspect of rebirth belief in a number of different cultures. Essays cover such topics as seventeenth-century Huron eschatology, Winnebago ideology, varying forms of Inuit belief, and concepts of rebirth found among subarctic natives and Northwest Coast peoples. The closing chapters address the genesis and anthropological study of Amerindian reincarnation. In addition, the possibility of evidence for the actuality of rebirth is addressed. Amerindian Rebirth will further our understanding of concepts of self-identity, kinship, religion, cosmology, resiliency, and change among native North American peoples."--Publisher website.

Indians of North America --- Indian mythology --- Inuit --- Inuit mythology --- Mythology, Inuit --- Innuit --- Inupik --- Eskimos --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Indians --- Mythology, Indian --- Mythology --- Religion --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Religion and mythology --- Eskimo. --- Indianer. --- USA --- North America. --- Turtle Island --- United States of America --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Nordamerika --- Amerika --- United States --- Etats Unis --- Etats-Unis --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Estados Unidos de America --- EEUU --- Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika --- Soedinennye Štaty Ameriki --- SŠA --- Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej --- Hēnōmenai Politeiai tēs Boreiu Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- HēPA --- Ēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- ĒPA --- Meiguo --- Etats-Unis d'Amérique --- US --- Amerikaner --- Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika

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"In the Belly of a Laughing God examines how eight contemporary Native women poets in Canada and the United States, Joy Harjo, Louise Halfe, Kimberly Blaeser, Marilyn Dumont, Diane Glancy, Jeannette Armstrong, Wendy Rose, and Marie Annharte Baker, employ humour and irony to address the intricacies of race, gender, and nationality. While recognizing that humour and irony are often employed as methods of resistance, this ... analysis also acknowledges the ways in which they can be used to assert or restore order. Using the framework of humour and irony, five themes emerge from the words of these poets: spiritual transformations; generic transformations; history, memory, and the nation; photography and representational visibility; and land and the significance of 'home.' Through the double-voice discourse of irony and the textual surprises of humour, these poets challenge hegemonic renderings of themselves and their cultures, even as they enforce their own cultural norms."--Jacket

American poetry --- Humor in literature. --- Irony in literature. --- American literature --- Indian authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors --- Indianer. --- USA --- Kanada --- Canada --- Dominion of Canada --- Puissance du Canada --- Kanadier --- Provinz Kanada --- 01.07.1867 --- -United States of America --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Nordamerika --- Amerika --- United States --- United States of America --- Etats Unis --- Etats-Unis --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Estados Unidos de America --- EEUU --- Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika --- Soedinennye Štaty Ameriki --- SŠA --- Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej --- Hēnōmenai Politeiai tēs Boreiu Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- HēPA --- Ēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- ĒPA --- Meiguo --- Etats-Unis d'Amérique --- US --- Amerikaner --- Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika

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'Kinship Across the Black Atlantic provides an outstanding analysis of new models and modes of family-making proposed by a range of key contemporary diasporic writers. Drawing upon a wealth of critical discussions of kinship drawn from anthropology, philosophy, feminism, queer studies, and more besides, Gigi Adair pursues a series of dazzling, detailed readings of the literary re-imagining of family-making across the black Atlantic. Ever alert to the pitfalls as well as the possibilities of fictionalising kinship anew, her vibrant analysis valuably uncovers the progressive modes of kinship that diasporic writing daringly and urgently proposes, often by reaching beyond the colonial-crafted constraints of heteronormativity, genealogy and biocentric myths of 'blood'.' John McLeod, Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures, University of Leeds This book considers the meaning of kinship across black Atlantic diasporas in the Caribbean, Western Europe and North America via readings of six contemporary novels. It draws upon and combines insights from postcolonial studies, queer theory and black Atlantic diaspora studies in novel ways to examine the ways in which contemporary writers engage with the legacy of anthropological discourses of kinship, interrogate the connections between kinship and historiography, and imagine new forms of diasporic relationality and subjectivity. The novels considered here offer sustained meditations on the meaning of kinship and its role in diasporic cultures and communities; they represent diasporic kinship in the context and crosscurrents of both historical and contemporary forces, such as slavery, colonialism, migration, political struggles and artistic creation. They show how displacement and migration require and generate new forms and understandings of kinship, and how kinship may be used as an instrument of both political oppression and resistance. Finally, they demonstrate the importance of literature in imagining possibilities for alternative forms of relationality and in finding a language to express the meaning of those relations. This book thus suggests that an analysis of discourses and practices of kinship is essential to understanding diasporic modernity at the turn of the twenty-first century.

American fiction --- African literature (English) --- English literature --- American literature --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- African American authors --- African authors --- Atlantischer Raum --- USA --- United States of America --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Nordamerika --- Amerika --- United States --- Etats Unis --- Etats-Unis --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Estados Unidos de America --- EEUU --- Vereinigte Staaten von Nordamerika --- Soedinennye Štaty Ameriki --- SŠA --- Stany Zjednoczone Ameryki Północnej --- Hēnōmenai Politeiai tēs Boreiu Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- HēPA --- Ēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- ĒPA --- Meiguo --- Etats-Unis d'Amérique --- US --- Amerikaner --- Konföderierte Staaten von Amerika --- Zirkumatlantischer Raum --- Atlantik --- Atlantik-Staaten --- Atlantischer Ozean --- Black Atlantic --- Postcolonial --- Diaspora --- Queer --- Fiction