From Anatolia to Indonesia : opium trade and the Dutch community of Izmir, 1820-1940 /

From Anatolia to Indonesia : opium trade and the Dutch community of Izmir, 1820-1940 /

In this act of willful writing, by turns lyrical and intense, Helene Cixous brings Osip Mandelstam and Nelson Mandela together through the common first syllables of their names, the dates of their respective exiles, and the women, Nadezhda Mandelstam and Winnie-Zami Mandela, who disclose and restore...

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Main Author: Schmidt, Jan
Other Authors: MacGillivray, Catherine A. F.
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Leiden, Nederland : Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Instituut te Istanbul, c1998.
Series:Emergent literatures.
Subjects:
Opium trade > Turkey > Izmir > History.
Opium trade > Indonesia > History.
Dutch > Turkey > Izmir > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "The Political Is - (and the) Poetical" / Catherine A. F. MacGillivray
  • Dedication to the Ostrich
  • Face of Abandon
  • The Marriage Proposal
  • The True Portrait of Nelson
  • The Visit from the Ostrich
  • Akhmatova's Egg
  • The Parting of the Cake
  • The End of the Unfinished Poem
  • On the Move...
  • Osip's Last Letter
  • The Song of Paths
  • All the Things They Couldn't Do
  • The Without Farewell of the First of May
  • The Day of Condemnation
  • A Life of Letters
  • The Posthumous Poem
  • Translator's Notes to Manna.

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