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Born in the Black Forest to Andalusian parents, the poet José F. A. Oliver has developed in recent decades a complex oeuvre in which multiple languages (German, Spanish, Alemannic and Andalusian) and plural kinships play a chief role. The present paper analyses the prose works of José F. A. Oliver as a fragmentary "language memoir" (Kaplan/Kramsch) while at the same time trying to reconstruct his nomadic identity between and across regions and languages. Special attention will be paid to José F. A. Oliver's use of the metaphors of multiple mothers and the two-storey house when referring to his own multilingual upbringing and literary habitus. In stark contrast to conceptual models of monolingualism which posit the mother tongue as the unique and irreplaceable buttress of national loyalties and literary creativity, José F. A. Oliver's work pleads for an alternative affective relationship to a multiplicity of mother tongues (in plural). In so doing, the present paper underscores the political dimension of José F. A. Oliver's metaphors for multilingualism. His alternative vision allowing the peaceful coexistence of multiple affective loci expressed in very different mother tongues questions the rigid exclusivity of German citizenship politics while simultaneously bringing to light the emancipatory and democratic potential of transregional and multilingual (e.g. Black Forest – Andalusia / Alemannic – Andalusian) identities beyond a national monolingual rationale.

This book marks an important contribution to colonial and postcolonial studies in its clarification of a certain Africanist discourse and its far-reaching analyses of a literature of animism.

This book highlights the links between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how literature and music have challenged those in power risking political censure. In addition, they also try to delineate how patronage has been used for propaganda, or to stir up national fervour. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence, challenge, and, in some cases, undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science, the humanities and performing arts.

"In confronting their tumultuous time, antebellum American writers often invoked unrevealable secrets. Five of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most inventive interlocutors - Melville, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Douglass, and Jacobs - produced their most riveting political thought in response to Emerson's idea that moods fundamentally shape one's experience of the world, changing only through secret causes that no one fully grasps. In this volume, Dominic Mastroianni frames antebellum and Civil War literature within the history of modern philosophical skepticism, ranging from Descartes and Hume to Levinas and Cavell, arguing that its political significance lies only partially in its most overt engagement with political issues like slavery, revolution, reform, and war. It is when antebellum writing is most philosophical, figurative, and seemingly unworldly that its political engagement is most profound. Mastroianni offers new readings of six major American authors and explores the teeming archive of nineteenth-century print culture"--

Cover -- Imagining the Real -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Politics of Equilibrium -- 2 Freedom for What? -- 3 Must New Worlds Also Be Good? -- 4 Honesty, Honour and Trust -- 5 The Ideology of Deconstruction -- 6 Fetishizing the Unseen -- 7 Thinking Degree Zero -- 8 Fiction, Meaning and Utterance -- 9 The Case of L.H. Myers -- 10 Providence, Authority and the Moral Life in The Tempest -- Notes -- Index.

This article addresses reactions to the death of Emperor Hirohito and studies as well as judgements about his life and politics. In Japan, as well as in other countries, opinions are divided. At the center of these debates is the issue of the Emperor's role in Japan's entry into the Second World War. For politicians as well as scholars, Hirohito was either a war criminal or a helpless tool of the militarists. The majority of the Japanese people, however, held and still hold him in high esteem. The next generation of the Imperial family seems to be less distant to ordinary people and seems to be developing into a monarchy similar to those of European countries. The political changes in Japan during 1993 give the impression that the character of state and society have changed compared with late Shōwa Japan.

Don Juan Manuel composed his main works (Libro del cavallero et del escudero, Libro de los estados, El conde Lucanor) in the period of time when he was at war with his King Alfonso XI, and therefore his political and military activity was more intense. Many critics have pointed out this inconsistency between urgent political matters and the time he could dedicate to literature, aside with the presumably inconsistency traditional criticism finds between the high moral values enshrined in his writings, and the unescrupulous character of his public behavior. Analyzing a personal letter addressed to King Alfonso VI of Aragon, as well as certain passages of his Libro de las tres razones, and some enxemplos from El conde Lucanor,we can conclude that there must be an intimate relationship between political practices and discursive strategies, relationship that allows us to understand the assumed inconsistencies of this autor both as a writer and as a top political figure in the 14th century Castile. ; Don Juan Manuel compuso sus obras más importantes (Libro del cavallero et del escudero, Libro de los estados, El conde Lucanor) en el período en que estuvo en guerra con su rey Alfonso XI y, por tanto, su actividad política y militar fue más intensa. Muchos críticos han señalado esta incongruencia entre las urgencias de la política y el tiempo dedicado a la literatura, a lo que se une –al menos en la crítica tradicional- el señalamiento de la inconsecuencia que habría entre los altos valores morales que exalta en sus obras y lo inescrupuloso de su conducta pública. Mediante el análisis de una carta personal dirigida al rey Alfonso IV de Aragón, de varios pasajes de su Libro de las tres razones y de algunos enxemplos de El conde Lucanor, se concluye que habría una íntima relación entre las prácticas políticas y las estrategias discursivas que permiten entender las supuestas incongruencias del autor en tanto que escritor y en tanto que figura política de primer rango en la Castilla del siglo XIV.