Word: mongrelized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Douglas is the author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s
Before you ask, no knowledge of Slavic languages is required. The reading is in translation, and the reading is worth reading. The ten books include Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, a novel about a scroungy Moscow mongrel transformed into a lecherous, vulgar man who spouts the philosophy of Friedrich Engels...
...that I come here as a mongrel, perhaps an avatar of one of the two dogs in Cervantes' great tale, El colloquio de los perros, there is something incredibly thrilling about a variation that is now developing from the experience that I had known at the "U". When I arrived there in 1971, French was on the wane. Those of us who had learned the discipline in the old style, following the principle of immortal authors and timeless masterpieces, were subjecting what we read and saw to the force of theory that we pretended to practice. (Nineteen-sixty-eight came...
...pulls and tugs on his loyalties, the presumptive European strain in his ancestry and the transreligion union between his Christian mother and Jewish father: "I, however, was raised neither as Catholic nor as Jew. I was both, and nothing: a jewholic-anonymous, a cathjew nut, a stewpot, a mongrel cur. I was--what's the word these days?--atomised. Yessir: a real Bombay...
Dorothy Parker wanted to call her (unwritten) autobiography Mongrel, presumably reflecting her Wasp-Jewish heritage. Douglas applies the word to the polyglot nature of the new culture, which was profoundly influenced by the Harlem Renaissance. Writers like Langston Hughes who settled in and around Strivers Row in Upper Manhattan gave distinctive voice to the aspirations of American blacks. "Aframerican" musicians like Duke Ellington entertained white audiences at Harlem's Cotton Club with an exotic new idiom, jazz, that became one of America's enduring gifts to the world...