Academic literature on the topic 'Roosevelt, Eleanor, in fiction'

Purpose Education initiatives have increased expectations of students’ non-fiction reading and text-based writing within history, social studies and other curricula. Teachers must locate age-appropriate curricular materials and implement discipline-specific pedagogy to guide students’ history literacy, historical thinking and historical argumentation. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Students are guided on an inquiry into an underemphasized element of a historically significant figure’s life. Eleanor Roosevelt’s labor and poverty advocacies generate comparably less attention by historians and trade book authors than her work with civil rights, human rights and international diplomacy. Findings Students are positioned to scrutinize primary and secondary sources using differentiated optics relevant to each source type. History literacy and historical thinking strategies ground students’ analyses. After extracting meaningful content from diverse sources, students are prompted to engage in text-based writing to articulate their newly developed understandings. Diverse elements of revision bolster students’ historical argumentation. Practical implications Close reading, critical thinking and text-based writing are joined throughout the guided inquiry. Originality/value The previously unused texts and original tasks are intended for middle school classrooms. These sources and strategies integrate different elements of history literacy, historical thinking and historical argumentation throughout the inquiry.

Thesis advisor: Patrick Maney
Among American First Ladies, one presidential wife in particular consistently ranks among one of the most influential women to hold the office. Eleanor Roosevelt’s precedent-setting tenure in the White House established a lasting legacy that influenced many of the women who followed her. Two of these First Ladies, Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter, are often overlooked in comparative studies of Eleanor Roosevelt with other presidential wives. Scholars typically highlight Hillary Rodham Clinton or Lady Bird Johnson, neglecting the First Ladyships of Ford and Carter. These two women, however, both pointed to Eleanor Roosevelt as an inspiration for their approach to the office. Both Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter incorporated three main components of Eleanor Roosevelt’s impressive legacy into their tenures as First Lady of the United States: an ever-expanding public role, increased independence, and launching initiatives concerned with social welfare to improve the lives of their fellow Americans. All of these actions can be traced back to Roosevelt’s innovative First Ladyship and their appearance in the successive Ford and Carter administrations highlight the interconnectedness of all three First Ladies and their considerable impact on their country both during and after their time in the White House
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2012
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program
Discipline: History

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The present work aims to discuss the general theme of the subject of human rights, and in particular, search to answer the question: who is the subject of human rights in the 1950 - 1960. Therefore, the emphasis is placed both in the trajectory life and the construction of the subject as Eleanor Roosevelt in political networks that made possible the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. A dialogue is established between the Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, two of the main sources used in this study. The objective is then to identify who is the subject of human rights in after World War II, starting dialogue between these two sources. At the same time make an evaluation of the historical, legal and philosophical transformations driven by new project of nascent human rights after conflicts from World War II.
O presente trabalho pretende dissertar sobre a temática do sujeito dos direitos humanos em geral, e em particular, busca responder à pergunta: quem é o sujeito dos direitos humanos nas décadas de 1950 a 1960. Para tanto, a ênfase é colocada tanto na trajetória de vida e na construção do sujeito Eleanor Roosevelt quanto nas redes políticas que tornaram possível a elaboração da Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos de 1948. Um diálogo é estabelecido entre a Autobiografia de Eleanor Roosevelt e a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos, duas das principais fontes utilizadas neste estudo. O objetivo deste trabalho é então identificar quem é o sujeito dos direitos humanos no pós-Segunda Guerra, a partir do diálogo entre essas duas fontes. Ao mesmo tempo fazer uma avaliação das transformações históricas, jurídicas e filosóficas impulsionadas pelo novo projeto de direitos humanos nascente após os conflitos da Segunda Guerra Mundial.

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In this research, we aim to analyze how literature, memory, identity and history are interwoven in Eleanor Marx, Karl´s daughter, the corpus of our research, and reflect on how was Eleanor Marx´s identity construction process, what is the importance of memory in this process and how is the relationship between history and literature in the narrative. From the general objective, we´ve established as specific objectives: i) to unravel the social place that the narrative occupies on the border of history/literature, and the ideological aspects that affect on the construction of the character´s identity; ii) to verify how occur the identity processes of the fictional character Eleanor in the corpus and its relationship with memory and psychological space; iii) to reflect on the historical and social time of Victorian Era and the representation of the female likeness and Eleanor´s role in this context; iv) to discuss how biography and fiction are interwoven in the narrative, constituting it as a biographical narrative; and v) to analyze the possible reasons that led the character to commit suicide.To achieve the specified objectives, we propose to answer the following questions: i)How is the constitution process of the character Eleanor Marx and her identity processes in the narrative, recognizing the memory as constitutive of these processes?; ii) How, on the border of history/literature, established by the narrative, builds up Eleanor´identity, in a context characterized by traditionalism and by the working class fight for the ideals?; iii) What is the social place the character takes up in this historic setting and what ideological and historical elements influence on their identity processes? Throughout the research, the concepts of identity, memory, history, literature and fiction were recurrent, and we consider that they are necessary for the analysis of the narrative and of the cutouts that guided the research. We understand, at the end of the study, that ideology was central in the construction of the character´s identity, whereas her reaction to the sociopolitical context, established by the inequality that marked that time, was part of the whole process of identity construction. Additionally, the romance presents a fictional narrative mixed by historical official facts and reveals Eleanor as a strong, educated and fighter woman, that also has a sensitive and needy of love and affection side. She is therefore, an incomplete subject, that feels weakened by a series of factors occurred in her life, as the disappointments with the divisions and ruptures of the socialist movement, the distance from friends and family, the death of her loved ones, the physical and emotional exhaustion of the last few months, the sleeplessness, the loneliness. Finally, we conclud that there was a conjuncture of factors that led the character Eleanor to commit suicide.
O objetivo da pesquisa proposta é analisar como literatura, memória, identidade e história se entrecruzam no corpus Eleanor Marx, filha de Karl; um romance, de Maria José Silveira e refletir sobre como se deu o processo de construção identitária de Eleanor Marx, qual a importância da memória nesse processo e como se dá a relação entre história e literatura na obra. A partir do objetivo geral, estabelecemos como objetivos específicos: i) desvelar o lugar social que a obra ocupa no limiar história/literatura e os aspectos ideológicos que exercem influxos sobre a construção da identidade da personagem; ii) escrutinar como se dão os processos identitários da personagem de ficção Eleanor no corpus e sua relação com a memória e o espaço psicológico; iii) refletir sobre o momento histórico e social da Era Vitoriana e a representação da figura feminina e qual o papel de Eleanor nesse contexto; iv) discutir sobre como biografia e ficção se imbricam na obra, constituindo-a como um romance biográfico; e v) analisar os possíveis motivos que levaram a personagem ao suicídio. Para alcançarmos os objetivos elencados, propomo-nos a responder às seguintes questões: i) Como ocorre o processo de constituição da personagem Eleanor Marx e seus processos identitários na obra, reconhecendo-se a memória enquanto constitutiva desses processos?; ii) Como, no limiar história/literatura, instaurado pela obra em análise, constrói-se a identidade da personagem Eleanor, num contexto marcado pelo tradicionalismo e pela luta pelos ideais da classe operária?; iii) Qual o lugar social ocupado pela personagem nesse cenário histórico e que elementos ideológicos e históricos incidem sobre seus processos identitários? Foram recorrentes, ao longo da pesquisa, os conceitos de identidade, memória, história, literatura e ficção, os quais consideramos necessários para a análise da obra e dos recortes que balizaram a pesquisa. Entendemos, ao final do estudo, que a ideologia foi fundamental para a construção da identidade da personagem, afinal, sua reação frente ao contexto sociopolítico, instaurado pela desigualdade que marcou aquela época, fez parte de todo seu processo de construção identitária. Além disso, o romance apresenta uma narrativa ficcional mesclada por fatos históricos oficiais e revela Eleanor como uma mulher forte, culta, lutadora, mas que também possui um lado sensível e carente de amor e afeto. Ela é, portanto, um sujeito incompleto, que se sente fragilizada por uma série de fatores que foram ocorrendo em sua vida, como as decepções com as cisões e rupturas do movimento socialista, seu distanciamento dos amigos e dos familiares, a morte dos seus entes queridos, o esgotamento físico e emocional dos últimos meses, a insônia, a solidão. Enfim, ao encerrarmos a pesquisa, concluímos que houve uma conjuntura de fatores que conduziram a personagem Eleanor ao suicídio.

This thesis is an attempt to render theatrically the establishment and eventual dissolution of the Federal Theatre Project, from the point of view of its appointed director Hallie Flanagan. Drawn from a variety of historical sources, including subjective first-person accounts and objective transcripts of congressional investigation testimony, the play approximates the structure of the Living Newspaper, a style of presentation adopted by the Federal Theatre Project. This thesis also includes an appendix, which details my playwriting process for this particular play, from initial concept through to production.

This thesis examines selected speculative novels by Margaret Atwood, Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing and Marge Piercy. It argues that a specifiable ecological ethic can be traced in their work – an ethic which is explored by them through the tensions between utopian and dystopian discourses. The first part of the thesis begins by theorising the concept of an ecological ethic of respect for the Other through current ecological philosophies, such as those developed by Val Plumwood. Thereafter, it contextualises the novels within the broader field of science fiction, and speculative fiction in particular, arguing that the shift from a critical utopian to a critical dystopian style evinces their changing treatment of this ecological ethic within their work. The remainder of the thesis is divided into two parts, each providing close readings of chosen novels in the light of this argument. Part Two provides a reading of Le Guin’s early Hainish novels, The Left Hand of Darkness, The Word for World is Forest and The Dispossessed, followed by an examination of Piercy’s Woman on the Edge of Time, Lessing’s The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. The third, and final, part of the thesis consists of individual chapters analysing the later speculative novels of each author. Piercy’s He, She and It, Le Guin’s The Telling, and Atwood’s Oryx and Crake are all scrutinised, as are Lessing’s two recent ‘Ifrik’ novels. This thesis shows, then, that speculative fiction is able to realise through fiction many of the ideals of ecological thinkers. Furthermore, the increasing dystopianism of these novels reflects the greater urgency with which the problem of Othering needs to be addressed in the light of the present global ecological crisis.

This manuscript is a collection of short fiction. The stories explore how power functions in intimate relationships, and in particular the effects of power structures on women. The stories take from fairy tale, gothic fiction and modernism. Aesthetically, they consider how structure, assemblage, and sequence affects the psychological experience of reading and knowing. .

Text in Afrikaans
In die verhandeling word die vergestalting van die sprokiemotief in die tekste, Griet skryf 'n sprokie deur Marita van der Vyver (1992) en Weerkaatsings - 'n sprokie deur Eleanor Baker (1984) nagegaan. Die doel is om vas te stel op watter wyse hierdie "kindgerigte" genre op die literere vlak van die volwasse leser omvorm word. Om hierdie doel te bereik word eerstens 'n begripsverkenning van die sprokie as epiese genre gedoen. In die verkenning van die genre val die soeklig nie net op die Westerse sprokie nie, maar daar word ook gefokus op die inheemse SuidAfrikaanse sprokie. Tweedens word aan die hand van hierdie teoretiese raamwerk 'n noukeurige analise gemaak van die vergestalting van die sprokiemotief binne die twee primere tekste. Die sprokieselemente in Griet skryf 'n sprokie en Weerkaatsings - 'n sprokie word uitgelig en die hantering daarvan vergelykend ondersoek
In the dissertation the manifestation of the fairytale motif in the texts, Griet skryf 'n sprokie by Marita van der Vyver (1992), and Weerkaatsings 'n sprokie by Eleanor Baker (1984) is investigated. The purpose is to ascertain the manner in which this "child-centred" genre is transformed on the literary level of the adult reader. To achieve this goal, a conceptualization of the fairytale as an epic genre is firstly undertaken. In the exploration of the genre, the search light does not only focus on the Western but also on the indigenous South African fairytale. Secondly, by means of this theoretical framework, a detailed analysis is made of the manifestation of the fairytale motif in the two primary texts. The elements of the fairytale in Griet skryf 'n sprokie and Weerkaatsings - 'n sprokie are highlighted and the handling thereof comparatively investigated
Afrikaans & Theory of Literature
M.A. (Afrikaans)