Down with the Old Canoe

Name: Down with the Old Canoe
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Cultural History of the "Titanic" Disaster

Автор: Steven Biel

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Корици: С меки корици

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"I suggest, henceforth, when a woman talks women's rights, she be answered with the word Titanic, no...

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Автор

Steven Biel

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1997

страници

320

EAN

9780393316766

ISBN

0393316769

Enbook ID

04877040

Издател

W W NORTON & CO

Теглоt

366

Размери

140 x 210 x 21

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"I suggest, henceforth, when a woman talks women's rights, she be answered with the word Titanic, nothing more just Titanic," wrote a St. Louis man to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He was not alone in mining the ship for a metaphor. Everyone found ammunition in the Titanic suffragists and their opponents; radicals, reformers, and capitalists; critics of technology and modern life; racists and xenophobes and champions of racial and ethnic equality; editorial writers and folk singers, preachers and poets. Protestant sermons used the Titanic to condemn the budding consumer society ("We know the end of . . . the undisturbed sensualists. As they sail the sea of life we know absolutely that their ship will meet disaster."). African American toasts and working-class ballads made the ship emblematic of the foolishness of white people and the greed of the rich. A 1950s revival framed the disaster as an "older kind of disaster in which people had time to die." An ever-increasing number of Titanic buffs find heroism and order in the tale. Still in the headlines ("Titanic Baby Found Alive!" the Weekly World News declares) and a figure of everyday speech ("rearranging deck chairs . . ."), the Titanic disaster echoes within a richly diverse, paradoxical, and fascinating America."

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