Winning Hearts and Minds: The 1st Casualty Press

1982 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
Caroline Slocock
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Vietnam Veterans ◽  
Commercial Publisher ◽  
Fire Zone ◽  
The Press ◽  
Political Understanding ◽  
Hearts And Minds

In the early 1970s, a number of Vietnam veterans sought publication for a collection of veterans' creative writing which they felt could make an important contribution to a political understanding of the war in Indochina. However, efforts to find a commercial publisher for their anthology met with no success. Their conviction that this literature both deserved and could find a substantial audience led these writers to establish their own independent publisher for the literature of Vietnam veterans, the 1st [sic] Casualty Press. In 1972, the Press published an anthology of veterans' poetry, Winning Hearts and Minds (or WHAM as it is often called), edited by Larry Rottmann, Jan Barry and Basil T. Paquet; it was followed a year later by Free Fire Zone, an anthology of short stories edited by Rottmann, Paquet and Wayne Karlin. As their epigraph, both volumes were given the quotation: “In war, truth is the first casualty.”

scholarly journals Iraq, the Pentagon and the battle for Arab hearts and minds

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
Patrick Ensor
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
The Press ◽  
Saddam Hussein ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Two months after ‘liberating’ Iraq, the Anglo-American authorities in Baghdad decided to control the new and free Iraqi press. Newspapers that publish ‘wild stories’, material deemed provocative or capable of inciting ethnic violence, are being threatened or shut down. A controlled press is a ‘responsible press — just what Saddam Hussein used to say about the press his deposed regime produced. In this edition of Pacific Journalism Review, essays by media commentators present several perspectives on the war and its aftermath. Patrick Ensor gives an overview, Louise Matthews provides media context for the war, John Pilger challenges journalists, Mohamed Al-Bendary profiles the pan-Arab satellite boom, and Alastair Thompson and Russell Brown examine the New Zealand media connection. Cartoonists Steve Bell (The Guardian) and Deven (Le Mauricien) add their views. Critical of the ‘embedded’ media, Bell laments: ‘There’s never been a more dangerous time to be a journalist at war.’

scholarly journals Arab Women Writing in English

1970 ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Saadi Nikro
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Women Writing ◽  
Personal Reflections

As the title indicates, this issue of Al-Raida is informed by the theme of Arab Women Writing in English, presenting essays, short stories, personal reflections, and poetry. Accordingly, the File includes mostly creative writing by Arab women living and working either in or outside the region.

London terror attack may help May ahead of election

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Terror Attack ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Press ◽  
Hearts And Minds

Significance Police know the attackers' identities but are controlling the release of such details until it is time to seek cooperation from the wider public. Impacts The attack will play to May's pose as a strong leader in the Thatcher image while glossing over her record for cutting police resources. Tackling terrorism will require winning minorities' hearts and minds, not demonising them, as in parts of the press. Debate will intensify over technology companies' role in facilitating radicalisation, which is arguably a distraction from its real causes.

scholarly journals LEARNING CREATIVE WRITING MODEL BASED ON NEUROLINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-42
Author(s):  
Edhy Rustan
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
School Students ◽  
Neurolinguistic Programming ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Group Trial

The objectives of the study are to determine: (1) condition on learning creative writing at high school students in Makassar, (2) requirement of learning model in creative writing, (3) program planning and design model in ideal creative writing, (4) feasibility of model study based on creative writing in neurolinguistic programming, and (5) the effectiveness of the learning model based on creative writing in neurolinguisticprogramming.The method of this research uses research development of Learning Model. The research data are obtained by observation, interviews, questionnaires, expert assessment, and test results. The feasibility of the model is done through expert assessment, testing one-to-one, small group trial, a large group trial, and trial on its effectiveness.The results of data analysis show that (1) the objective condition has various problems in learning to write short stories, (2) analysis of objectives has varous needs, deficiencies, and desire of students and teachers in developing creative writing based on learning model in neurolinguistic programming, (3) learning model covers focus, syntax, social system, the principle of reaction, means of support, and the impact of learning, (4) eligibility models by experts produces valid result, a trial one-to-one has practical result, a small group trial, and large group trial obtain enforceability of the model in good criteria, and (5) model-based learning creative writing in neurolinguistic programming is proved to be effective in improving skill of high school students to write short stories in Makassar.  

scholarly journals In conversation with Catherine Cole

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaydeep Sarangi
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Sea Birds ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Dry Dock

Catherine Cole is currently Professor of Creative Writing in the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia. In March 2017, she will take up the position of Professor in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University in Liverpool, UK. Catherine has published three novels, Dry Dock (1999) and Skin Deep (2002) and The Grave at Thu Le (2006), two non-fiction books, Private Dicks and Feisty Chicks: An Interrogation of Crime Fiction (1996) and The Poet Who Forgot (2008). She is the editor of the anthology, The Perfume River: Writing from Vietnam (2010) and co-editor with McNeil and Karaminas of Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television (2009). Her poetry, short stories, essays and reviews have been published in Australia and internationally and produced by BBC Radio 4. In 2017 Catherine’s short story collection, Sea Birds Crying in the Harbour Dark, will be published by UWA Press.

Soviet Turkmenia through the eyes of the Soviet writer: language and translation

2020 ◽  
pp. 269-286
Author(s):  
Alla O. Burtseva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
National Literature ◽  
Soviet Republic ◽  
10Th Anniversary ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Government ◽  
National Poetry ◽  
New Literature ◽  
Literary Circles

The Soviet project of national literature was strongly motivated by the government in the 1930s. The government was not the only client, as regional literary circles were also interested (Turkmen in particular). The question about the language of literature was actively discussed in the Turkmen press, in particular, the new language, new literature, translation, and the work of Soviet writers on Turkmen themes. The author uses the press, critical review, and a poem by G. A. Sannikov as particular examples of this topic. The poem was published in the almanac Ajding-Gjunler which was created for the 10th anniversary of Turkmenistan as a Soviet republic by the writers' “brigade”, which had to create poems, short stories, and sketches about “new Turkmenia”. I consider the press publications controversial in the matter of the “cleanness” of new Turkmen as well as the loanwords used. The review by R. Aliev strongly criticises the translations from the classic Turkmen literature. In his opinion, the translators do not understand the sound and the nuances of the language used in national poetry. Sannikov uses Turkmen words as a means to make the reader feel the sound and the shape of them, but does not explain the meaning, which leads to the conclusion that this was an attempt to construct zaum (more or less). We conclude that the movement of Russian and Turkmen language of fiction towards each other stalled and was substituted by mass translation owing to the background of the discussion about “cleanness”, negatively reviewed translations, and the specific usage of Turkmen elements in soviet poetry. We suggest that the project of language exchange was not successful.

Residual Femininity: Women in Chinese Communist Fiction

1963 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 158-179
Author(s):  
C. T. Hsia
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Women Characters ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Personal Problems ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
The Press

In Chinese Communist literature, men and women are primarily seen in their likeness as workers rather than in their sexual and emotional unlikeness as human beings. Women, as much as men, are praised for their socialist zeal and heroic capacity for work and condemned for being socialist sluggards indifferent to production. But despite its repudiation of “human interest” as a symptom of capitalist or revisionist decadence, even this supremely practical literature cannot begin to exist without some superficial attention to personal problems, and these problems, inevitably, attest to the persistence of biological instincts and immemorial habits of human civilisation. Until the techniques, Communist or otherwise, for dehumanisation are perfected, men and women will remain subject to irrational passions, and if circumstances permit, they will fall in love, get married, bring up children, and in other devious ways contrive for pleasure and happiness. In tracing the lot of Chinese women under Communism, I will therefore take for granted that the primary purpose of their earthly existence is to contribute to and assist in production and examine rather their residual personal problems in the context of the overriding importance of socialist construction. The results of niy investigation, if my women characters, drawn invariably from short stories, are at all typical, will show, not surprisingly, the pathetic adjustment of their feminine instincts and interests to the jealous demands of Party and state. The exceptions that I will take notice of—sympathetic victims and challengers of the impersonal Communist bureaucracy—are all heroines of revisionist fiction that has been subject to vehement attack by the press.

scholarly journals PENINGKATAN KOMPETENSI MENULIS CERITA PENDEK MELALUI TEKNIK TRANSFORMASI TEKS PUISI DAN CO-CREATIVE WRITING

LITERA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-85
Author(s):  
Hartono Hartono ◽  
Suroso Suroso ◽  
Dwi Budiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Collaborative Writing ◽  
State University ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Development Of Language

Menulis kreatif merupakan keterampilan yang dapat berkontribusi bagi pengembangan kemampuan berbahasa. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kompetensi mahasiswa dalam menulis cerita pendek melalui teknik transformasi teks puisi dan co-creative writing. Penelitian ini melibatkan 18 orang mahasiswa Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta sebagai subjek penelitian dan seorang dosen pengampu mata kuliah Menulis Sastra sebagai kolaborator peneliti. Jenis penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas dengan menerapkan dua siklus dengan lima kali pertemuan selama pengambilan data penelitian. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui teknik observasi, wawancara, dan penyebaran kuisioner untuk kemudian dilakukan kondensasi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan dari data kualitatif yang diperoleh. Kemampuan mahasiswa dalam menulis cerita pendek diperoleh melalui tes menulis cerita pendek yang kemudian dianalisis secara deskriptif kuantitatif. Berdasarkan analisis, diperoleh kesimpulan sebagai berikut. Pertama, penerapan teknik transformasi teks puisi dan co-creative writing dapat meningkatkan efikasi diri mahasiswa, mengembangkan kesadaran kolaborasi dalam menulis cerita pendek, dan membangun suasana perkuliahan menulis sastra yang aktif dan dinamis. Kedua, peningkatan skor rerata setiap aspek kompetensi menulis cerita pendek dari siklus ke siklus memperlihatkan bahwa penerapan teknik transformasi teks puisi dan co-creative writing dapat meningkatkan kompetensi menulis cerita pendek di kalangan mahasiswa. Teknik ini terutama sangat membantu dalam mengembangkan kemampuan untuk menggali ide dan imajinasi penulisan cerita pendek. Mahasiswa menjadi terlatih untuk melakukan ekspansi cerita, modifikasi dan variasi, atau konversi cerita.Kata kunci: menulis kreatif, transformasi teks puisi, efikasi diri, menulis kolaboratifINCREASING COMPETENCE OF SHORT STORIES WRITING THROUGH POETRY TEXT TRANSFORMATION AND CO-CREATIVE WRITING TECHNIQUESAbstract Creative writing is a skill that is expected to contribute to the development of language skills. This study aimed to improve students' competence in writing short stories through poetry texts transformation and co-creative writing techniques. The study involved 18 students of the Department of Language and Literature Education, Faculty of Language and Arts, Yogyakarta State University as research subjects and a lecturer who teaches Literature as a research collaborator. The study was a classroom action research by applying two cycles with five meetings during the research data collection. Data collection was carried out through observation, interviews, and filling out questionnaires followed by data condensation, data display, and drawing conclusions from the qualitative data obtained. Students' ability in writing short stories was obtained through a short story writing test which was then analyzed using descriptive quantitative analysis. The following research results were obtained. First, the application of poetry texts transformation and co-creative writing techniques increased student self-efficacy, developed collaborative awareness in writing short stories, and built an active and dynamic literary writing lecture atmosphere. Second, the increase in the mean score of each aspect of competency in writing short stories from cycle to cycle showed that the application of the poetry texts transformation and co-creative writing techniques improved the competence of writing short stories among students. This technique was especially helpful in developing the ability to explore ideas and imagination in writing short stories. Students became trained to do story expansion, modification, and variation, or story conversion.Keywords: creative writing, poetry texts transformation, self-efficacy, collaborative writing

scholarly journals Peningkatan Keterampilan Menulis Cerita Pendek Melalui Strategi Area Isi (Studi Kasus Terhadap Mahasiswa Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia FBSS UNP)

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasnur Asri
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Content Area ◽  
Story Content

This research aims at identifying the effectiveness of the use of ‘content area strategy’ in teaching creative writing. Based on the action performed in the class it was found that the content area strategy was able to enhance students’ ability in writing short stories. The effectiveness was recognized from the average scores achieved in writing short stories both in describing the content of the story and the element of the story, and in language use.. Key words: short story, content area strategy

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