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Testimony and Truth After Auschwitz
Sarah Gordon
Indiana University
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Survivor testimony of the Holocaust often deviates from historical fact. Postmodern theory allows for the near nihilation of that testimony by arguing that history is nothing but a version of ...
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Folklore Forum
“Ten Little Niggers”: The Making of a Black Man’s Consciousness
Tiffany M.B. Anderson
The Ohio State University
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During Reconstruction in the 1860s, the proud Confederate states found themselves in a place of subordination. Forced to concede their free slave ...
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Folklore Forum
Edward M. Bruner. Culture on Tour: Ethnographies of Travel. University of Chicago Press, 2004. 312 pages, 48 halftones. $62.50 cloth, $25.00 paper.
Tracy Musacchio
Knox College
Tourism has a profound effect not only on tourists but also on the cultures ...
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Folklore Forum
Within Their Own Seams: 19th Century Fashion and the Management of the Body in Women’s Literature and Letters
Kristiana Willsey
Indiana University
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s 1855 novel, North and South, demonstrates the significant position women’s fashion played in the construction ...
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Folklore Forum
Ulrich Marzolph, ed. The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective. Wayne State University Press, 2007. 348 pages, $31.95 paper.
Fredericka Schmadel
Indiana University
Ulrich Marzolph, editor of Wayne State University Press’s 2007 book, The Arabian Nights in Transnational Perspective, called the ...