The Finno-Ugric Republics and the Russian State

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Psychology Press, 1999 - 449 sivua

The legendary Greek figure Orpheus was said to have possessed magical powers capable of moving all living and inanimate things through the sound of his lyre and voice. Over time, the Orphic theme has come to indicate the power of music to unsettle, subvert, and ultimately bring down oppressive realities in order to liberate the soul and expand human life without limits. The liberating effect of music has been a particularly important theme in twentieth-century African American literature.

The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of such African American writers as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Nathaniel Mackey, Sherley Anne Williams, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison. The authors discussed in this volume depict music as a mystical, shamanistic, and spiritual power that can miraculously transform the realities of the soul and of the world. Here, the musician uses his or her music as a weapon to shield and protect his or her spirituality. Written by scholars of English, music, women's studies, American studies, cultural theory, and black and Africana studies, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection ultimately explore the thematic, linguistic structural presence of music in twentieth-century African American fiction.

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in the Soviet Union
73
Hungary Finland Estonia
82
Orthodox Finland by Ott Kurs and Rein
100
100
121
The Siamese Twins
147
Europes Last Animists
221
The Redhead Children of the
267
The Northernmost Alphabet
294
The Curse of Arctic
343
FinnoUgric Republics and the Future of Russian
388
Appendix Geographical and Ethnographic Name
413
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