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📚️ 🇺🇸 The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity "At the turn of the twentieth century, the white slavery panic pervaded American politics, influencing the creation of the FBI, the enactment of immigration law, and the content of international treaties. At the core of this controversy was the maintenance of white national space." 🔗 https://msupress.org/9781611864595/the-rhetoric-of-white-slavery-and-the-making-of-national-identity/ #Race #Rhetoric #Identity #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #History #Histodons #C20th #20thCentury #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Book #Books #Bookstodon

🧵 7/21 I walked for about an hour from the Vasa museum through the island park of Djurgården to the Thiel Gallery: https://www.thielskagalleriet.se/en/ I cannot recommend a visit to this gallery too highly. Both architecture and the collection of pictures within come together to impress the visitor with a wealthy and informed couple's taste at the dawn of the modern. I enjoyed a 3:00 PM coffee and cardamom bun there too! #Sweden #Stockholm #Art #ThielGallery #ThielskaGalleriet #20thCentury #Fika

🧵 8/21 I am particularly interested in the twenties and thirties, so I was delighted to find the Moderna Museet staging both “Brassaï – The Secret Signs of Paris” and "The Subterranean Sky: Surrealism in the Moderna Museet Collection". I shall have more to say about surrealism, as prompted by this exhibition in a future post. I could kick myself a hundred times for not handing over a few dollars for "Brassaï -- The Secret Paris of the 30's" at a yard sale. https://www.modernamuseet.se/en/stockholm/exhibitions/brassai/ #Sweden #Stockholm #ModernaMuseet #Brassaï #Photography #Paris #1930s #Art #Surrealism #20thCentury

“In 1990, the UK CWA issued a list titled ‘The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.’ Number one on the list was THE DAUGHTER OF TIME by Josephine Tey. It was a good call then, it’d still be a good call now.” Josephine Tey (1896–1952) was born #OTD, 25 July – a 🎂 🧵 @bookstodon@a.gup.pe 1/7 https://crimereads.com/josephine-tey-a-crime-readers-guide-to-the-classics/ #Scottish #literature #crimefiction #womenwriters #20thcentury #JosephineTey

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Une célébration radiophonique de l'esprit littéraire intrépide de Nan Shepherd dans les Cairngorms

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A radio celebration of Nan Shepherd's intrepid literary spirit in the Cairngorms clashes with a generic corporate website.

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Ein automatisierter Social-Media-Post über Nan Shepherd offenbart die Geschäftslogik der Ad Alta UG.

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Une célébration radiophonique de l'esprit littéraire intrépide de Nan Shepherd dans les Cairngorms.

#literature #scottish #20thcentury #available #modernism

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Robert Macfarlane's pilgrimage celebrates Nan Shepherd's radical, sensual philosophy of deep landscape immersion as an antidote to modern disconnection.

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Ein literarisches Vermächtnis erfährt durch Robert Macfarlanes poetische Pilgerreise eine zeitgenössische Renaissance und wird zum Gegenmodell einer entfremdeten Gesellschaft.

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Orcadian author Ann Scott-Moncrieff (1914–1943) was born #OTD, 11 January. Lesley Findlay, her daughter, talks about Ann’s life in Orkney, her writing, & her children’s stories – recently republished by Scotland Street Press 1/7 https://www.scotlandstreetpress.com/journal/who-was-ann-scott-moncrieff #Scottish #literature #20thCentury #Orkney #WomenWriters #ChildrensLiterature #kidlit

Intil the pitmirk nicht we northwart sail Facin the bleffarts and the gurly seas That ser’ out muckle skaith to mortal men… —J.K. Annand (1908–1993), “Arctic Convoy” published in FROM THE LINE: Scottish War Poetry 1914–1945 (ASL, 2014) https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/from_the_line/ #Scottish #literature #20thcentury #poem #poetry #warpoetry #ww2 #arctic