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van Liere, Lucien, and Elizabeth van Dis. "Post-War Reflections on the Ambon War." Exchange 47, no. 4 (October 25, 2018): 372–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1572543x-12341500.
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Abstract Between 1999 and 2004, with reverberations until 2011, several Moluccan islands (Indonesia) faced violent clashes between Christians and Muslims. Based on 79 interviews, this article seeks to understand how people from both religious groups look back at the conflict, 12 years after the Malino II peace treaty was signed in 2002. We identified three major conflict-related themes that continued to come to the fore during the interviews: explanations about causes of the conflict, religion-related justifications of violence and miracle stories. Most interviewees indicated that the causes of the conflict were non-religious, but rather political. Religion-related language however was frequently used to justify violence as self-defense while miracles-stories were often part of war-narratives. Looking back, Christians and Muslims still understood their communities as injured and victimized. The ‘right to protect’ one’s community as a threatened Christian or Muslim community prevailed in most stories although the source of this threat was not always clear.
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Daiute, Colette, and Maja Turniski. "Young people's stories of conflict and development in Post-war Croatia." Narrative Inquiry 15, no. 2 (December 22, 2005): 217–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.15.2.03dai.
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Scholars have begun to study the participation of children in war, but there is little research on the longer term consequences among those born during or after the war. This article explains how a socio-historical discourse perspective can expand research on the psycho-social effects of war. Drawing on a study of stories of conflict by children in post-war Croatia, the authors propose the concept “trans-generational development” to account for the legacies of war on social identity and knowledge. The focus of the analysis is 59 narratives written by 10 to 17 year olds identifying as Serb and Croat in the context of their participation in community center devoted to post-war recovery and development. The analysis identified complexity in young authors' representations of social relations across generations, especially around issues of ethnicity – a major issue fueling the 1990's wars in the former Yugoslavia. For example, the young authors characterized their parents' generation as divided, bitter, and socially impotent, their own generation as collaborative, wise, and resourceful, and future townspeople as active in the face of political and economic challenges. These patterns suggest how young people express identities and knowledge of the war period, yet, with support, also reason beyond the ideological and emotional legacies of war. Such story-telling complexity underscores the need for complex conceptualizations and applications of narrative theory to research and practice in war and other troubled settings.
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Dellios, Alexandra. "‘It was just you and your child’: Single migrant mothers, generational storytelling and Australia’s migrant heritage." Memory Studies 13, no. 4 (January 9, 2018): 586–600. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698017750000.
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On the 10 and 11 February 2016, former residents of one of Australia’s post-war ‘holding’ centres for migrant arrivals presented evidence at a hearing for the site’s inclusion on the Victorian Heritage Register. They were aware that the Victorian Heritage Register held few places of significance to post-war migrant communities, let alone working migrant women, which Benalla largely accommodated. They chose to retell their mothers’ stories and explicitly expressed a desire to honour their mothers’ memory at this hearing. This article will explore the impetus expressed by these former child migrants of Benalla to tell their mothers’ stories and unpack its associated implications for the history and collective remembrance of Australia’s post-war migrants. These former child migrants found a platform in the heritage hearing, a platform from which they could piece together their mothers’ history and insist that it is a history worthy of heritage listing and public acknowledgement. On a broad level, I ask, what can a contentious history like Benalla’s offer the history of post-war migration in Australia? Specifically, what role do generational stories of single working migrant women have in the remembering of migrant history and heritage practice in Australia?
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Basic, Goran. "Constructing “Ideal Victim” Stories of Bosnian War Survivors." Social Inclusion 3, no. 4 (July 16, 2015): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/si.v3i4.249.
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Previous research on victimhood during and after the Bosnian war has emphasized the importance of narratives but has not focused on narratives about victimhood or analyzed post-war interviews as a competition for victimhood. This article tries to fill this gap using stories told by survivors of the Bosnian war during the 1990s. In this analysis of the retold experiences of 27 survivors of the war in northwestern Bosnia, the aim is to describe the informants’ portrayal of “victimhood” as a social phenomenon as well as analyzing the discursive patterns that contribute to constructing the category “victim”. When, after the war, different categories claim a “victim” status, it sparks a competition for victimhood. All informants are eager to present themselves as victims while at the same time the other categories’ victim status are downplayed. In this reproduction of competition for the victim role, all demarcations that were played out so successfully during the war live on.
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Njoroge Kinuthia. "War or peace journalism? Kenyan newspaper framing of 2007 post-election violence." Editon Consortium Journal of Media and Communication Studies 2, no. 1 (December 31, 2020): 161–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjmcs.v2i1.193.
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This study sought to examine the dominant frame in terms of ‘war’ and ‘peace’ in the coverage of the 2007/2008 post-election violence. At the time, Kenya had eight daily and over 10 weekly newspapers (Mbeke, 2008). The Daily Nation and The Standard were selected for the purpose of this study. The study applied systematic sampling method to select stories from The Standard and simple random sampling to select the stories from Daily Nation. A sample of 35 news articles (an average of 5 every day) for each of the newspapers and a maximum of 10 for each of the other categories were selected from 294 and 180 articles from The Standard and Daily Nation respectively. Details of each story were recorded in the coding sheet. This information was afterwards transferred to SPSS, a statistical data analysis programme. The study employs 11 of Johan Galtung’s 13 indicators of war/peace journalism to analyse the framing of the conflict. Galtung has proposed a new approach to reporting war and conflict that he terms 'peace journalism'. The two newspapers had an equal number of war journalism-framed stories (6 or 2%). Peace journalism framing was dominant in both newspapers. The findings contrast Galtung’s argument that in reporting war and conflict the media always give emphasis to war journalism frames.
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Kompleev, A. V. "Historical Stories of Modern Memorial Wars in the Post-Soviet Space." Tempus et Memoria 2, no. 1 (2021): 53–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/tetm.2021.1.007.
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The author analyzes the process of the collapse of a single system of historical images that developed during the Soviet period and the reasons for the increase in memorial wars in the Post-Soviet space. It is concluded that historical stories and images related to the Great Patriotic War are widely used in modern memorial wars in the Post-Soviet space.
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Разуменко, Т. О. "ИСПАНСКАЯ ТЕМА В РАССКАЗАХ Э. ХЕМИНГУЭЯ «ПОБЕДИТЕЛЬ НЕ ПОЛУЧАЕТ НИЧЕГО»." Наукові записки Харківського національного педагогічного університету ім. Г. С. Сковороди "Літературознавство" 3, no. 93 (2019): 162–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.34142/2312-1076.2019.3.93.13.
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Ernest Hemingway is a symbolic figure in the literature of the 20th century. His name and works entered the history of world literature forever. The purpose of the article is to characterize the way of opening the inner world and the emotional state of the characters, the psychology of the ‘lost generation’ in the interaction of its external and internal manifestations through the civil war inSpain. The article analyzes the stories ‘A clean, well-lighted place’, ‘A way you’ll never be’, ‘The light of the world’. The heated atmosphere of the ‘bloody decade’ introduced new themes into the writer's work.Spainbecame a ‘moment of truth’ for E. Hemingway. He feels the inevitability of the coming world war. E. Hemingway expressed himself inSpaincompletely as an artist, and as a citizen. All the characters of his stories are simple people, men and women, unemployed, traumatized by war, looking for their place in the post-war world (a cook, a lumberjack, Indians, prostitutes etc.). Endless humor, laughter, self-irony, joke, and sometimes bitter laughter help them to stand and find their place in life. The ‘code’ of light, purity, and peace are universally introduced into all writer's works. In the personality of his characters there is much in common, unifying them with all the differences in appearance and life path, and above all, hopelessness and disappointment, indifference to life in general, and the most terrible is their loneliness. The utmost frankness and genuineness of soul movements, the combination of morals, history, nature with the chronicle of only human destiny, are exceptionally bright creative personalities of E. Hemingway, who describes his characters. In our work we came to the conclusion that the characters of the stories about the war years inSpain‘A clean, well-lighted place’ (about a lonely old man), ‘A way you’ll never be’ (about the war), ‘The light of the world’ (the sad and ironic story about prostitutes who remembered the past) anyway are rejected by a prosperous society. Hopelessness, dark state of the soul of ‘lost generation’ are combined with the belief in the ‘ordinary’ life without the war for the characters of E. Hemingway’s stories. Light and dignity are the main components of a person’s peaceful life, the confession of a person who got out of the abyss and survived during the war, but who lost the sense of life in peacetime, they are distinguishing features of many characters in military conflicts.
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Kirschenbaum, Lisa A. "The Meaning of Resilience: Soviet Children in World War II." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 47, no. 4 (February 2017): 521–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_01053.
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During World War II, the Soviet media depicted children suffering as well as children actively participating in the war effort and mothers making sacrifices for them. Such mixed messages served clear political purposes, publicizing Nazi atrocities while deflecting attention from the Soviet state’s failure to protect its children. Historians have tended to approach such images and stories within a framework of trauma that validates stories of children’s suffering, despite their political purposes, while also discounting wartime accounts and postwar (and post-Soviet) reminiscences that highlight children’s strength and recovery. The concept of resilience, as developed in psychology, psychiatry, and anthropology, however, allows historians to understand such material as authentic and vital components of survivors’ understandings and memories of the war.
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Tilley-Lubbs, Gresilda A. "Fear and Silence Meet Ignorance." Ethnographic Edge 3 (December 4, 2019): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.15663/tee.v3i1.53.
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When I studied in Spain in 1969 and 1970, I knew about the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), briefly mentioned in my Spanish history books; General.simo Francisco Franco declared victory. I knew Spain through my graduate studies in Spanish literature and through Michener’s book Iberia (1968). In 2000, I met Jordi Calvera, a Catal.n whose post-war stories conflicted with that idyllic Spain. I returned to Spain in 2013, still with no idea of the impact of the totalitarian dictatorship based on fear and silence through which Franco ruled until his death in 1975, leaving a legacy of fear and silence. In Barcelona, I met a group of adults in their eighties who shared Jordi’s experience. My intrigue with these stories led me to learn more about the war, the dictatorship and the aftermath by interviewing people whose lives had been touched by those years. Through a layered account, I present some of the stories and examine my oblivion.
Keywords: Critical autoethnography, autoethnography, ethnography, Spanish Civil War, Franco’s totalitarian dictatorship
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Mahini, Ramtin Noor-Tehrani (Noor), Erin Barth, and Jed Morrow. "Tim O’Brien’s “Bad” Vietnam War: In the Lake of the Woods & Its Historical Perspective." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 8, no. 12 (December 1, 2018): 1582. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0812.03.
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Award-winning author Tim O’Brien was sent to Vietnam as a foot soldier in 1969, when American combat troops were gradually withdrawn from the country. A closer look at his Vietnam war stories reveals that he indeed touched upon almost all issues or problems of American soldiers in this “bad” war; yet not many peer-reviewed authors or online literary analysis websites could identify and discuss them all. The purpose of this article is to address the war details in O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods and its historical perspective, so that middle and high school readers can understand the meaning behind Tim O'Brien's stories and know the entire big Vietnam War picture. Specifically, this article discusses the following issues that are raised by O’Brien in this novel: the Mỹ Lai Massacre and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Vietnam War veterans. In addition, the Mỹ Lai Massacre cover-up, forgotten heroes of Mỹ Lai, and soldiers’ moral courage are also presented.
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Dahal, Chandi Raj. "Introduction to Narrative Phenomenon Model: A Framework for Mapping War Stories that Travel through Generations." Bodhi: An Interdisciplinary Journal 7 (December 31, 2019): 127–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/bodhi.v7i0.27907.
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This article relies upon cultural trauma theory for the basic understanding of storytelling in a post-traumatic situation and presents its findings based on researcher’s own observation of a post conflict situation of decade long armed conflict in Nepal. It introduces a communication model to explain the storytelling phenomenon that emerges during and after any violent situation and that exists through newer generations. First, the article discusses some theories related to trauma stories and sociology of generational differences. Second, it proposes Narrative Phenomenon Model as a new tool that can map the journey of trauma stories created by those exposed to war or violent events. Third, it discusses how narratives get created, modified or transformed into multiple truths.
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Siad, Asha. "Memories of Mogadishu: Reconstructing post-conflict societies through memory and storytelling." Bibliotekarz Podlaski Ogólnopolskie Naukowe Pismo Bibliotekoznawcze i Bibliologiczne 47, no. 2 (July 10, 2020): 233–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.36770/bp.480.
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For many members of the Somali diaspora, the fear of fading memories places a sense of urgency on them to keep these stories of their homeland alive. The great African novelist Ben Okri once said, “to poison a nation, poison its stories”. Stories have the ability to harm or heal societies. Oftentimes, it is simply exclusion from the main narrative that can greatly harm or marginalize a group of people. This paper examines the use of memory in the reconstruction of a once cosmopolitan city by the Somali diaspora around the world through the Memories of Mogadishu initiative. The film by the same title is a short documentary made by the author, in which she interviews nine members of the Somali diaspora currently residing in Canada. Ultimately, this project and this paper reveal the realities of how post-conflict societies, and individuals within them, reconstruct and reconcile their memories, in this case of their former home of Mogadishu, Somalia. This paper analyses the nine interviews and is divided into the following four sections: “Memories of Mogadishu before the Civil War”, “Civil War and Leaving Mogadishu”, “Identity Revision, Memory, and Routinization”, and “Losing and Rebuilding Memories of Mogadishu (and Themselves)”.
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Robinson, Emily, Camilla Schofield, Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite, and Natalie Thomlinson. "Telling Stories about Post-war Britain: Popular Individualism and the ‘Crisis’ of the 1970s." Twentieth Century British History 28, no. 2 (March 3, 2017): 268–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwx006.
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Bronec. "Transmission of Collective Memory and Jewish Identity in Post-War Jewish Generations through War Souvenirs." Heritage 2, no. 3 (July 2, 2019): 1785–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage2030109.
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The article includes a sample of testimonies and the results of sociological research on the life stories of Jews born in the aftermath of World War II in two countries, Czechoslovakia and Luxembourg. At that time, Czechoslovak Jews were living through the era of de-Stalinization and their narratives offer new insights into this segment of Jewish post-war history that differ from those of Jews living in liberal, democratic European states. The interviews explore how personal documents, photos, letters and souvenirs can help maintain personal memories in Jewish families and show how this varies from one generation to the next. My paper illustrates the importance of these small artifacts for the transmission of Jewish collective memory in post-war Jewish generations. The case study aims to answer the following research questions: What is the relationship between the Jewish post-war generation and its heirlooms? Who is in charge of maintaining Jewish family heirlooms within the family? Are there any intergenerational differences when it comes to keeping and maintaining family history? The study also aims to find out whether the political regime influences how Jewish objects are kept by Jewish families.
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Ranta, Michael. "Mao’s Homeworld(s) – A comment on the use of propaganda posters in post-war China." Semiotica 2020, no. 232 (February 25, 2020): 53–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sem-2019-0054.
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AbstractWithin cognitive science, narratives are regarded as crucial and fundamental cognitive instruments or tools. As Roger Schank suggests, the identity of (sub-)cultures is to a considerable extent based upon the sharing of narrative structures (Schank. 1995. Tell me a story: Narrative and intelligence. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.). According to Schank, culturally shared stories, as do many other stories, occur frequently in highly abbreviated form, as “skeleton stories” or “gists.” Collective identities are conveyed in and between cultures not only through verbal discourse, but also by pictorial means. Many pictures and visual artworks have indeed been produced in order to establish and to consolidate a home-culture and to demarcate it from conceived extra-cultural counterparts.Some of my previous work on these lines has been concerned with demarcation efforts in visual media of “Jews” as extra-cultural, since the Middle Ages onwards, in the Third Reich’s iconography, as well as in modern, radicalized forms of anti-Semitic picturing in Arab media (Ranta. 2016. The (pictorial) construction of collective identities in the Third Reich. Language and Semiotic Studies 2(3). 107–124, Ranta. 2017. Master narratives and the (pictorial) construction of otherness: Anti-semitic images in the Third Reich and beyond. Contemporary Aesthetics 15. https://contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=765 (accessed 17 November 2019.). In building upon and extending this work, I shall focus in the current paper upon attempts of creating cultural and political cohesion by means of pictorial propaganda in post-war China from the early 1950’s onwards, as promoted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) under the leadership by Mao Zedong. Some concrete pictorial examples indicating these attempts will be discussed from a narratological and cultural semiotic perspective.
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Hughes, Celia. "Negotiating ungovernable spaces between the personal and the political: Oral history and the left in post-war Britain." Memory Studies 6, no. 1 (January 2013): 70–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750698012463895.
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In this article, I consider the value and challenges of using oral history interviews to access and interpret narrative memories of men and women who became active in the left network around Britain’s anti-war movement, the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign. I focus in-depth on the individual stories of one man and one woman who, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, joined far left Trotskyist organisations. The stories reveal a two-fold search for past revolutionary and current selves. Reading between the shifting layers of past and present, the article will explore what deeper insights interviewing offers into the complex ways in which activists shaped subjectivities both in their far left groups and in the interview itself. It engages with the concept of inter-subjectivity to reflect on the interpersonal relationship between interviewer and interviewee in the oral history encounter. It thus considers the meeting of particular subjectivities and the role they played in shaping the oral history narratives. Through careful attention to my own internal state at the time of interviewing, and to how the interviewees’ stories made me feel, I seek to understand unconsidered political, social and emotional gendered experiences of life on the British far left around 1968.
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Biskupska, Kamilla. "Green Wrocław: Urban narratives of three post-war generations of Wrocław’s inhabitants." Polish Journal of Landscape Studies 3, no. 6 (October 9, 2020): 9–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/pls.2020.6.1.
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This study is an invitation to reflect on issues that fall within the area of collective memory, an area that awaits further in-depth analysis. More specifically, this article is a proposal of a broader study on cultural landscape and places of memory than that which is dominant in the sociological literature. In particular, I examine the relationship between the inhabitants of the Polish “Western Lands” and the material German heritage of the cities in which they happen to live. I mainly focus on the relation between socially constructed memory and greenery—a “negligible” part of the space of human life. As I demonstrate in the article, the “green” narrations about Wrocław created after World War II are lasting and are still present in the stories of city’s inhabitants today.
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Gordon, Robert S. C. "Luck stories: stress-testing contingency and agency at the margins of post-war American literature." Textual Practice 32, no. 3 (March 3, 2018): 509–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2018.1442398.
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Saylor, Thomas. "Soldiers of Memory: World War II and its Aftermath in Estonian Post-Soviet Life Stories." Oral History Review 39, no. 1 (January 1, 2012): 167–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ohr/ohs012.
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AITKEN, ROB. "Provincialising embedded liberalism: film, orientalism and the reconstruction of world order." Review of International Studies 37, no. 4 (May 12, 2011): 1695–720. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210511000131.
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AbstractThis article explores conceptions of post-war world order promoted in appeals to ‘filmic internationalism’ – an Anglo-American movement of filmmakers, artists, and cultural bureaucrats who became committed to social-realist documentary films throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Examining this movement, I argue, allows us to reflect on the cultural consititution of embedded liberalsim, a vision of post-war order pursued not only in political-economic but also in cultural terms. Moreover, retelling the story of filmic internationalism also unsettles our accounts of embedded liberalism by foregrounding the lingering importance of imperial governmentality to interwar conversations regarding post-war world order. Traces of imperial governmentality are visible in both the ways in which filmmakers conveived the cultural agency of ‘other’ populations as well as the universal conceit with which they promoted a form of social governance. Recovering these ‘other’ stories, I argue, is a critical gesture which provincialises embedded liberalism by situating it in a more diverse set of contexts than is often acknowledged.
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Deplano, Valeria. "Within and outside the nation: former colonial subjects in post-war Italy." Modern Italy 23, no. 4 (August 16, 2018): 395–410. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2018.27.
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After Mussolini’s regime collapsed, Italy rebuilt itself as a nation and a democracy. The Republican Constitution approved in 1948 rejected the ideologies of both racism and racial discrimination, which had been strengthened and made harsher by Fascism since the mid-1930s. Yet, despite this, racism and racialisation continued in the post-Fascist years. The article analyses how the presence of former colonial subjects in Italy between the 1940s and 1960s was perceived, represented and managed, and demonstrates that the hegemonic discourse of the post-war period still considered Italy to be a white and ethnically homogeneous nation. It considers the stories of people from Libya and Eritrea who applied for Italian citizenship and the life in Italy of some Somali students in the 1960s. From different perspectives, these case studies show how in republican Italy inclusion and exclusion, as well as concepts of identity and otherness, were the consequence of processes of racialisation and ideas inherited from the previous period.
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Levinger, Matthew, and Laura Roselle. "Narrating Global Order and Disorder." Politics and Governance 5, no. 3 (September 29, 2017): 94–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/pag.v5i3.1174.
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This thematic issue addresses how strategic narratives affect international order. Strategic narratives are conceived of as stories with a political purpose or narratives used by political actors to affect the behavior of others. The articles in this issue address two significant areas important to the study of international relations: how strategic narratives support or undermine alliances, and how they affect norm formation and contestation. Within a post-Cold War world and in the midst of a changing media environment, strategic narratives affect how the world and its complex issues are understood. This special issue speaks to the difficulties associated with creating creative and committed international cooperation by noting how strategic narratives are working to shape the Post-Cold War international context.
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Ferreira Prado, María Cecilia. "Los Cuentos surrealistas de Muñoz Rojas." Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna, no. 43 (2021): 109–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.refiull.2021.43.05.
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There are almost no studies on the Cuentos surrealistas (1979) by José Antonio Muñoz Rojas, author best known for his poetic work in the Spanish post-war period. His stories were mostly written in the 1930s, the time of the rise of Spanish surrealism. The author published them as a whole many years later. Due to its great visuality and humorous trait, the work recalls the carefree and jovial tone of the first avant-garde; however, he moves away from this because of the great depth of thought that Muñoz Rojas expresses in these stories. The objective of this study is to analyze the stories in their context, identify the surreal themes, motifs and techniques, as well as their dominant stylistic features and the posible influences of other authors.
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Wessely, Simon. "War stories: Invited commentary on… Documented combat exposure of US veterans seeking treatment for combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder." British Journal of Psychiatry 186, no. 6 (June 2005): 473–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.186.6.473.
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In 2005 King's College London and the Oral History Society are hosting a conference on the oral history of the Second World War (http://www.oralhistory.org.uk). The conference will bring together research that starts with the verbal testimonies of both combatants and civilians involved in the conflict. But note that I write ‘starts with’ those oral testimonies. I doubt that any of the presenters will argue that these testimonies are the only source of information we have on what happened during the war. All will agree on the importance of listening carefully to the stories told, but also of interpreting, analysing and supplementing them with information from other sources. Many of the papers to be presented also look at how narratives have changed over time. Testimonies of the war from the former East Germany, for example, have changed dramatically since the fall of the Berlin Wall, a process that has happened in all of the countries of the former Soviet bloc, albeit in different ways. War stories change according to who is doing the telling, who is doing the listening, and why the story is being told now.
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Martin, Jane. "TELLING STORIES ABOUT COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION: HIDDEN HISTORIES OF POLITICS, POLICY AND PRACTICE IN POST-WAR ENGLAND." British Journal of Educational Studies 68, no. 5 (September 2, 2020): 649–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2020.1832956.
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Campbell, Isabel. "Exemplary Canadians? How Two Canadian Women Remember Their Roles in a Cold War Military Family." Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 27, no. 1 (July 18, 2017): 61–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1040525ar.
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This piece examines the constructed memories of the wife and a daughter of an air force subaltern, using oral history interviews to highlight their unique voices and explore their lived realities. Whole life history methodology reveals complexities and contradictions with regard to idealized families, generational differences, and polarized gender roles that might remain otherwise hidden when relying primarily on archival sources. This process peels back the idealized middle-class family of post-war elite proponents and it exposes points of intersection and difference with the historiography of Canadian Cold War families in general, and military families in particular. Their contrasting stories are not intended to represent the thousands of individual military family lives; rather, the reiteration of these oral histories highlights the unique McMillan family stories and reveals how military service, personnel policies, gender, age, class, education, culture, geographic location, place in the family, and individual personality and capabilities played out in their particular lives.
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Wallace, Richard, Rebecca Harrison, and Charlotte Brunsdon. "Women in the Box: Female Projectionists in Post-war British Cinemas." Journal of British Cinema and Television 15, no. 1 (January 2018): 46–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2018.0401.
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Cinema projection is usually understood to be a male-dominated occupation, with the projection box characterised as a gendered space separate from the more typically feminine front-of-house roles. Although this is a fairly accurate representation, it risks eliminating all traces of women's labour in the projection box. Previous work by David R. Williams (1997) and Rebecca Harrison (2016) has addressed the role of women projectionists during wartime, and this article begins to excavate a hidden history of women projectionists in a peacetime context. The article uses oral testimony from two women – Florence Barton and Joan Pearson – who worked as projectionists in the mid-twentieth century. Their accounts are presented in the article as two portraits, which aim to convey a sense of the women's everyday lives in the projection box, as well as think about implications that their stories have for our understanding of women's roles in projection more broadly. Of particular significance to both Barton and Pearson are the relationships that they had with their male colleagues, the possibilities afforded for career progression (and the different paths taken by the women) and the nature of projection work. The women's repeated assertions that they were expected to do the same jobs as their male counterparts form a key aspect of the interviews, which suggest there is scope for further investigation of women's labour specifically in projection boxes and in cinemas more generally.
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Palko, Abigail L. "Queer Seductions of the Maternal in Dorothy Macardle's Earth-bound." Irish University Review 46, no. 2 (November 2016): 287–308. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2016.0228.
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During her lifetime, Dorothy Macardle was a prominent public intellectual in both her native Ireland and post-war Europe. Her passionate engagement in Irish nationalism found expression in her writing; in her only collection of short stories, Earth-bound: Nine Stories of Ireland, published early in her writing career, she protests Irish women's socially restricted status and offers literary models of female solidarity to her audience (her fellow prisoners in Kilmainham Gaol, where she was imprisoned during the Civil War). Complex and ambiguous messages regarding maternal attitudes and female sexuality are encoded within the collection, particularly in the two Maeve stories (as I have labelled them because of their shared narrator), ‘The Return of Niav’ and ‘The Portrait of Roisin Dhu’, in which she offers coded expressions of the realities of women's lives in early twentieth-century Ireland that the larger public would have preferred remain unspoken, particularly with regard to expressions of maternal inclinations and female sexuality. Earth-bound, driven by her reactions to the many ways that the Irish struggle for national autonomy was purchased by the sacrifice of female autonomy, becomes a vehicle through which she explores socially taboo issues, most notably mothering practices and both heterosexual and homosexual expressions of female sexuality.
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Sowińska, Ewa. "Jan Leszczyński "I then had the hobby of having a printing house"." Wrocławski Rocznik Historii Mówionej 7 (December 29, 2017): 211–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.26774/wrhm.173.
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Jan Leszczyński’s account is an autobiographical story that began with the outbreak of World War II. Then, the author colorfully describes the reality of the post-war years in the so-called Recovered Territories, education, his first job and then studies at the School of Economics. From his perspective, he brings the functioning of the PRL economy closer through the stories of working in large production plants in Lower Silesia, including in Diorz in Dzierżoniów, where Mr. Jan worked. The report was registered by the author of the study as part of the documentation and research project of the "Remembrance and Future" Center, entitled "Factory Wrocław".
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Abrams, Lynn. "Liberating the female self: epiphanies, conflict and coherence in the life stories of post-war British women." Social History 39, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 14–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03071022.2013.872904.
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Holá, Barbora. "(Un)Told Stories of Post-War Prostitution: Challenging Hegemonic Narratives on Human Trafficking and Peacekeeping in Kosovo." Tijdschrift voor Criminologie 63, no. 1 (April 2021): 79–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.5553/tvc/0165182x2021063001004.
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Basic, Goran. "Ideal victim and competition for victimhood in the stories of the survivors of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina." Temida 18, no. 2 (2015): 7–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/tem1502007b.
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Previous research on victimhood often presented a one-sided picture of the ?victim? and the ?perpetrator?. Researchers have emphasised the importance of narratives and they have focused on narratives about victimhood, but they have not analysed post-war interviews as an arena for the competition for gaining the status of victim. This paper tries to fill-in this gap through analysing stories of 27 survivors of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1990s. The paper aims at describing the interviewees? portrayal of ?victimhood? as a social phenomenon, as well as to analyse those discursive patterns, which contribute to constructing the categories of a ?victim? and a ?perpetrator?. The research question is: How do the interviewees describe victimhood after the war? Within the dynamics that constructs the status of a ?victim? and a ?perpetrator? a competition for the role of a victim is noticeable after the war. All interviewees are eager to present themselves as victims, while at the same time they diminish the victim status of other categories. This situation can produce and reproduce competition for gaining the status of a victim, and, in this way, to reinforce collective demarcations that were played out so successfully during the war.
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Szlachcicowa, Irena. "Cierpienie i pamięć - o transmisji doświadczeń w narracji." Politeja 17, no. 2(65) (April 30, 2020): 25–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/politeja.17.2020.65.02.
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Suffering and Memory – on the Experience Transmission in the Narrative
The traumatic experience of war and the Holocaust not only left its mark on the psyche of the people affected by it, it also left a deep imprint on the consciousness of the next generation. The aim of this article is to present the phenomenon of generational transmission of post-war trauma in relation to the concept of trajectory, developed in sociology. The concept of trajectory allows for better examination and understanding of the biographical processes of suffering that arises and grows in the situation of social disorder and the breakdown of moral norms. Tragic experiences from the parents’ past are a significant conditioning of the way children perceive their stories and themselves. Post-memory, as the second generation’s memory created by family narratives, is a form of remembering what has happened, which determines the process of constructing the self.
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Pennay, Bruce. "Picturing Assimilation in Post-war Australia: ‘Destination: Australia. Sharing Our Post-war Migrant Stories’, www.destinationaustralia.gov.au, a National Archives of Australia website and exhibition based on its Immigration Photographic Archive." Australian Historical Studies 44, no. 1 (March 2013): 134–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1031461x.2013.761666.
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Enria, Luisa. "Love and Betrayal: The Political Economy of Youth Violence in Post-War Sierra Leone." Journal of Modern African Studies 53, no. 4 (November 4, 2015): 637–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x15000762.
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ABSTRACTYouth unemployment is often presented as a security risk in post-conflict countries, yet the relationship between labour market exclusion and engagement in violence remains little understood. This paper opens up one aspect of this relationship, analysing how the employment aspirations of Sierra Leone's marginal youth relate to their decisions to take part in political unrest. Telling the stories of urban youth involved to varying degrees in violent episodes shows how violence is used as a tactic to signal loyalty to political strongmen. Such loyalty is hoped to result in the establishment of relations of reciprocity that will offer a road to socially valued employment. Comparing the experiences of two groups of young people, similar in their socio-economic background and experience of violence but different in their collocation in political networks, reveals two things. Firstly, availability for violence was insufficient to achieve durable incorporation, as pre-existing social ties determined the nature of recruitment. Secondly, as even those embedded in politicians’ networks of reciprocity appeared ultimately unable to escape marginality, their experiences cast doubt on the expediency of using violence as a way into the labour market, making the exploitative nature of these relations starkly evident.
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Martin de Almagro, Maria. "Indicators and Success Stories: The UN Sustaining Peace Agenda, Bureaucratic Power, and Knowledge Production in Post-War Settings." International Studies Quarterly 65, no. 3 (July 22, 2021): 699–711. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqab059.
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Abstract Most discussions on knowledge production in peacebuilding and conflict management have focused on the study of epistemic communities and strategic coalitions of global and local actors. This article shifts the focus away from who produces knowledge to the underexplored question of how knowledge is generated, repackaged, deployed, or ignored. Combining sociology of knowledge approaches with feminist governmentality scholarship, I critically interrogate the role of reports as knowledge production artifacts and report writing as bureaucratic practices that serve to design and implement UN Peacebuilding Fund (PBF) projects on Sustaining Peace. Specifically, I analyze the role of reports and reporting in four PBF projects on gender and reconciliation in Liberia, and I show how through the mechanisms of persuasion and homogenization, reports serve not only to measure success and failure and to produce contextualized knowledge, but also to exert symbolic power, (re)producing authoritative knowledge on women, gender and reconciliation, and giving legitimacy to external interventions. Studying how knowledge is produced instead of who produces it enables us to apprehend the entanglement of the local and the global and overcome simplistic binaries and oppositions, all while paying attention to how the production of knowledge, and its silences, remains embedded in global power relations.
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Ogliari, Elena. "“Ireland first”: The Great War in the Irish Juvenile Press." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 31 (December 15, 2018): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.2018.31.04.
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Inspired by Ben Novick’s studies on the response of the Irish advanced nationalist press to the First World War, this paper focuses on a less-explored topic, i.e. the representation of the conflict in the separatist press for Ireland’s youth. Combining literary and historical interests, I devote my attention to the editorials and literary contributions published in the pages of the juvenile periodicals during and after the war, to highlight how these papers came to popularise, among the youngsters, a specific reception of the first ‘total’ conflict. Spy- and war- stories, ballads and aislings took hold of the boys’ and girls’ imagination: a powerful propagandist instrument, popular literature buttressed a nationalist agenda. At the same time, given the readers’ young age, these periodicals aimed to shape what was to become Ireland’s public memory of the Great War. In the public sphere of post-war Ireland, many soldiers were treated with disdain or indifference. The First World War and its protagonists were condemned to a period of oblivion, which has lasted until quite recently. Textual attention to the rhetoric and literary strategies adopted by the contributors helps to expose the nuances and shifts in the Irish nationalists’ view on war.
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Reeder, Caryn A. "Wartime Rape, the Romans, and the First Jewish Revolt." Journal for the Study of Judaism 48, no. 3 (August 11, 2017): 363–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700631-12340149.
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In contrast with the breadth of references to rape in historiographies, narratives, and visual depictions of war across the Greco-Roman world, the relatively few references to rape in stories of the First Jewish Revolt are remarkable: Josephus, j.w. 4.560 and 7.344, 377, 382, 385; 4 Ezra 10:22; Lam. Rab. 1:16; b. Giṭ. 56b, 57b-58a. This paper explores the use and significance of rape as a weapon in Roman warfare as context for interpreting the references to rape in the earliest reflections on the revolt, Josephus’s Jewish War and 4 Ezra, proposing that the limited number of these references in Josephus in particular relates to his larger goal of reconstructing Jewish identity (especially in terms of masculinity) in post-revolt Rome.
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Henretta, James A. "In Defense of Traditional Stories and Labels." Law and History Review 24, no. 1 (2006): 209–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248000002339.
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Forums are not for the faint of heart. My critics offer a searching analysis of my approach and arguments. William Novak questions the basic assumptions and methods of my article; indeed, he dismisses it out of hand as a well-known “traditional” story told in an equally traditional “narrative” fashion. Somewhat more graciously, Daniel Rodgers contests the validity of some of its arguments; more fundamentally, he disputes the legitimacy—at least for a “normal” political actor such as Charles Evans Hughes—of an ideological frame of reference. Just tell the (traditional) story, he says; come to grips with the man and forget the labels. For his part, William Forbath largely accepts my conceptualization but disputes my contention that the traditional liberal state died in 1937. Rather, he argues, the post–New Deal American state was deeply informed by Hughes's “lawyerly” brand of “transitional” liberalism, which balanced a “progressive” commitment to reform and administrative state-building with a “classical” regard for dual federalism and the primacy of courts and common law. Finally, Risa Goluboff contests my suggestion, via Hilaire Belloc, that the new constitutional order subordinated individual economic rights to the interests of the national state and the elites that control it. The quest for economic rights remained strong, she suggests, until the onset of the Cold War, which limited the reach of the American welfare state, and theBrowndecision, which gave a racial (and, eventual, gender) definition to liberal reform.
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Wells, Robert A., and Erika G. King. "Prestige Newspaper Coverage of Foreign Affairs in the 1990 Congressional Campaigns." Journalism Quarterly 71, no. 3 (September 1994): 652–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909407100316.
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This content analysis of four prestige newspapers' coverage of the first post-cold war congressional campaigns examined hypotheses concerning the amount and substance of international and foreign affairs coverage. As expected, although the news and opinion/editorial agenda of all four newspapers consisted of extensive coverage of the major international and foreign affairs stories taking place during the fall campaign period (such as the military build-up in the Gulf and the collapse of communism), coverage of foreign policy issues in the 1990 congressional races was conspicuously absent.
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Stähler, Axel. "Between or Beyond? Jewish British Short Stories in English since the 1970s." Humanities 9, no. 3 (September 11, 2020): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h9030110.
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Looking at short stories by writers as diverse as Brian Glanville, Ruth Fainlight, Clive Sinclair, Jonathan Wilson, James Lasdun, Gabriel Josipovici, Tamar Yellin, Michelene Wandor, and Naomi Alderman, and extending from the center of Jewish British writing to its margins, this article seeks to locate the defining feature of their ‘Jewish substratum’ in conditions particular to the Jewish post-war experience, and to trace its impact across their thematic plurality which, for the most part, transcends any specifically British concerns that may also emerge, opening up an Anglophone sphere of Jewish writing. More specifically, it is argued that the unease pervading so many Jewish British short stories since the 1970s is a product of, and response to, what may very broadly be described as the Jewish experience and the precarious circumstances of Jewish existence even after the Second World War and its cataclysmic impact. It is suggested that it is prompted in particular by the persistence of the Holocaust and the anxieties the historical event continues to produce; by the confrontation with competing patterns of identification, with antisemitism, and with Israel; and by anxieties of non-belonging, of fragmentation, of dislocation, and of dissolution. Turned into literary tropes, these experiences provide the basis of a Jewish substratum whose articulation is facilitated by the expansion of Jewish British writers into the space of Anglophone Jewish writing. As a result, the Jewish British short story emerges as a multifaceted and hybrid project in continuous progress.
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SAJED, ALINA. "The post always rings twice? The Algerian War, poststructuralism and the postcolonial in IR theory." Review of International Studies 38, no. 1 (January 27, 2011): 141–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0260210510001567.
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AbstractThis article makes the case for rethinking the relation between poststructuralism and postcolonialism, by building on the claims advanced by Robert Young, Azzedine Haddour and Pal Ahluwalia that the history of deconstruction coincides with the collapse of the French colonial system in Algeria, and with the violent anti-colonial struggle that ensued. I choose to examine narratives of theorists such as Derrida, Lyotard, and Cixous because not only they provide the link between colonial violence, the poststructuralist project that ensued, and postcolonialism, but also because the problems I identify with their projects are replicated by much poststructuralist work in International Relations (IR). I signal that one of the most significant consequences of conducting poststructuralist research without attention to postcolonial horizons lies in the idealisation of the marginalised, the oppressed or the native without attending to the complexity of her position, voice or agency. Bringing these theories together aims to highlight the need for a dialogue, within IR, between poststructuralism's desire to disrupt the disciplinarity of the field, and postcolonialism's potential to transcend the self-referential frame of IR by introducing perspectives, (hi)stories, and voices from elsewhere.
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Fudala, Justyna. "Znaczenie obrazów symbolicznych w opowiadaniu „Nema povratka” Miodraga Bulatovicia." Slavica Wratislaviensia 164 (November 20, 2017): 79–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0137-1150.164.7.
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The importance of symbolic images in the story Nema povratka written by Miodrag BulatovićMiodrag Bulatović is a representative of a grotesque avantgarde trend in post-war Serbian literature. In his short stories and novels, he referred to the notions of evil and moral decay. In a short story collection entitled Vuk i zvono, he depicted a war-stricken countryside of Montenegro, in which all elements of the world depicted are gradually devoured by fire. Only a few of the short stories from the above-mentioned collection have been translated into Polish. In the analytical part of the article, the most important motifs found in the translated texts are discussed.Значење симболичких слика у причи Нема повратка Миодрага БулатовићаY причама из збирке Вук и звоно доминира ватра, са којом су повезане људске судбине. Читалац има утисак да је човек само играчка у рукама судбине, а ватра преовладава у ње- говом животу. Булатовић приказује свет, који изгледа као пакао на земљи. Свеприсутност људских несрећа, рата и ватре ствара слику света пуног безнађa и туге. Зло се рaђa у људи- ма и утиче на њихов даљи живот. У циљу приказања трагизма и безнађа споменути писац користи много симбола, a њиховo значење je битно за разумевање текста.
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GEORGE, MOLLY, and RUTH P. FITZGERALD. "Forty years in Aotearoa New Zealand: white identity, home and later life in an adopted country." Ageing and Society 32, no. 2 (April 8, 2011): 239–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0144686x11000249.
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ABSTRACTIn this article we recount some of the memories, hopes and strategies of 22 older migrants who are ageing in their adopted country of Aotearoa New Zealand. Having arrived as young adults in the 20 years after World War II, most of the immigrants have lived on ‘foreign’ soil for twice as long as their brief sojourns of childhood and early adulthood in their country of origin. Arriving from a variety of backgrounds in 12 different countries, they can all be considered ‘white’ immigrants in relation to New Zealand's indigenous Māori population and other non-European immigrant groups such as those from Pacific Island Nations or Asia. Their lives encompass the experience of globalisation and transnationalism in communication technologies and inter-country migration. As they recount the meaning of living through these changes, these older folk discuss the delicacies of assimilation in post-World War II New Zealand and the interplay between the daily life of New Zealand as ‘home’ and the homeland asHeimat. Their stories argue against the assumption that decades of residence, particularly for white immigrants in a white-majority nation, imply an ‘assimilation’ of cultural identity. Instead, the stories evoke recognition of the negotiation of gain and loss which continues as they, and their contexts, change over time.
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Darda, Joseph. "The Thin White Line: Veterans and the White Racial Politics of Creative Writing." American Literature 91, no. 4 (December 1, 2019): 783–810. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917308.
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Abstract This essay considers how the creative writing workshop transformed the white Vietnam vet into a minority writer. The MFA system, which organized the group-based politics of post–civil rights American literature, originated as a space geared toward white combat veterans. Some of the first graduate programs in creative writing were founded in the years after World War II, and their classes were dominated by white vets attending college on the GI Bill. The vets received the now-clichéd advice to write what they know, to turn their war experiences into war stories. The next wave of program building followed the passage of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and the Vietnam Veterans’ Readjustment Benefits Act of 1966, which brought Vietnam vets into a changing workshop, where students still learned to write what they know but also, as pre–civil rights racial liberalism turned to post–civil rights liberal multiculturalism, write who they are. The trauma of combat allowed white men to situate themselves within late twentieth-century literary culture by writing not as white men but as “veteran-Americans.” Veteran-American literature set white men within the pluralist institution but without forfeiting the cultural center, or the front seat in the classroom.
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Eisenmann, Linda. "A Time of Quiet Activism: Research, Practice, and Policy in American Women's Higher Education, 1945–1965." History of Education Quarterly 45, no. 1 (2005): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-5959.2005.tb00024.x.
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This exploration of American women's post-World War II higher education begins with three stories. These narratives reflect issues women faced when, as educators, they tried to plan curricula and programs for female students, and when, as professionals, they tried to manage their own careers in an era that frequently sent mixed messages about women's roles and opportunities. They also reveal a quiet type of activism practiced by postwar women educators, an approach which often pales in comparison to the firmer efforts of postsuffrage and World War II activists, or to the lively and boisterous work of late-1960s feminists. However, I will argue that this more muted style, when combined with the era's predilection for individualized solutions to women's concerns, marks a particular postwar approach to advocacy that may be different from other eras but that suited the contextually complicated postwar period.
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Oleszczuk, Anna. "Technology of Control and Control of Technology in Brian K. Vaughan’s Ex Machina." Kultura Popularna 4, no. 58 (December 30, 2018): 70–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.8086.
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In the classic era of American comics, the overwhelming majority of superhero stories focused on the straightforward struggle between good and evil, with superheroes embodying the positive values such as justice, order, or patriotism. However, with time both the stories and the characters started to transform. By the end of the 1980s, new, darker series expressing distrust of political governance and all forms of authority started to emerge. In the aftermath of 9/11, this skepticism has found new fuel in a range of policies and actions collectively known as the War on Terror. The paper analyzes Brian K. Vaughan’s Ex Machina (2004-2010) focusing especially on the series’ exploration of domestic security in the post-9/11 United States. The author links the protagonist’s superpower, the ability to communicate with the machines, to the developments in surveillance and drone warfare and investigates the comic’s reflections of such major concerns related to America’s surveillance and security as the constraints on civil liberties
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Sakai, Tomoko. "Trans-Generational Memory: Narratives of World Wars in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland." Sociological Research Online 14, no. 5 (November 2009): 187–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.2045.
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People situate their personal lives in a macro history through crafting trans-generational narratives. Trans-generational historical narrative is simultaneously about personal micro interactions and emotions, and about the large process of macro history. It lies between ‘small’ and ‘big’ narrative spheres and plays an important role in the formation of the ethnic, national and cultural identities of individuals. By examining carefully this type of autobiography, collective social experience and large cause-effect relationships in social processes that are beyond personal will and control can be explored. This is what Charles Tilly encourages narrative researchers to do. This paper analyses World War stories told by two persons living in post-conflict Northern Ireland who were born after the end of the Second World War. It shows that the World War experiences of the storytellers’ parents or ancestors, and the storytellers’ own experiences during and after the conflict, are interwoven to form a macro historical consciousness. In these narratives, the past is evoked to become a basis for the storyteller's life to be re-interpreted. These are narrative practices in which an individual becomes a historical subject by telling his or her own life: in one sense, becoming subject to the macro memory framework, and in another sense, becoming a subject of the practice of crafting history.
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Rosenberg-Friedman, Lilach. "Nationalism, Gender and Feminine Identity: The Case of Post-World War ii Zionist Female Emissaries." European Journal of Jewish Studies 8, no. 2 (October 20, 2014): 194–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1872471x-12341265.
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The last three years of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1945–48, were peak years in the Jewish national struggle for the establishment of a Jewish state and the formation of a progressive society peopled by new Hebrew men and women. This article discusses the historical phenomenon of Zionist women in Palestine who were sent to Europe on special missions to rescue Holocaust survivors and bring them to Palestine. Their stories shed light on the emergence of a new feminine identity and serve as a platform for exploring nationalism and gender in general, with an emphasis on the evolving identity of women during a period of national struggle. The case histories presented in this study show how women of the time found personal fulfillment through nationalistic missions that helped to redefine the role of the Jewish woman. They became models for a new Jewish woman who deviated from the traditional model of the woman as homemaker and mother. Participation in these missions was significant in shaping their new identity. It was a three-stage process that began with a masculine initiative that prompted their activity; continued with traditional female roles carried out with a new twist, and ended with a change in female self-awareness. The experiences of these emissaries show how women’s participation in the national struggle was fraught with personal conflicts intimately connected to the encounter between traditional gender roles and their new role and nationalist identity.
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SPÄTH, JENS. "The Unifying Element? European Socialism and Anti-Fascism, 1939–1945." Contemporary European History 25, no. 4 (October 14, 2016): 687–706. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777316000400.
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Far too often studies in contemporary history have concentrated on national stories. By contrast, this article analyses wartime discourses about and practices against fascism in France, Germany and Italy in a comparative and – as far as possible – transnational perspective. By looking at individual biographies some general aspects of socialist anti-fascism, as well as similarities and differences within anti-fascism, shall be identified and start to fill the gap which Jacques Droz left in 1985 when he ended hisHistoire de l'antifascisme en Europewith the outbreak of the Second World War. To visualise the transnational dimension of socialist anti-fascism both in discourse and practice different categories shall be considered. These include historical analyses and projects for the post-war order in letters, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and books, acts of solidarity like mutual aid networks set up by groups and institutions and forms of collaboration in resistance movements.