P. Finney (2011).Remembering the Road to World War Two: International History, National Identity, Collective Memory

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 766-767
Author(s):  
Talbot Imlay
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
International History ◽  
The Road

scholarly journals The power of memory and the heritage of the World War Two in When You Return by Anna Mitgutsch

2021 ◽  
Vol 145 ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Aneta Jurzysta
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
Sudden Death ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The article is devoted to the image of World War Two in When You Return (Wenn du wiederkommst) (2010) by Anna Mitgutsch, a moving story of love, trust and betrayal, devoted to the protagonist’s response to the sudden death of her Jewish-American ex-husband Jerome. The article discusses the attitude to Jewish roots and the problem of remembering past events, especially memories of World War Two. In her novel the author combines family history with the history of the country, refers to the issue of cultural and collective memory, and especially to the specific Austrian memory of the events of the Holocaust and the long-standing tendency to diminish the guilt and to negate the participation of Austrians in war crimes.

scholarly journals Disordine internazionale e identità nazionale. Storia e favola = International disorder and national identity. History and fable

2019 ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Massimo La Torre
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Law ◽  
International Monetary System ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Made In

ABSTRACT: After World War Two a gigantic effort was made in order to build a viable and stable international order, beginning with the Bretton Woods agreement that was aimed to stabilize the international monetary system, and with the United Nations, that were intended to restore legality in interstate affairs and somehow initiate a cosmopolitan conversation among Nation States. This order is now slowly crumbling down, paradoxically through globalization, and a triumphant neoliberalism. A new, but indeed quite old narrative, rather a myth, of what a national identity means is again getting the upper hand.KEYWORDS: international relations, international law, European Union, globalization, national identity

scholarly journals War, Homecoming and Genre: John Mulgan's 'Man Alone' and Jack Kerouac's 'On the Road'

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Mercer
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War Two ◽  
World War ◽  
Civilian Life ◽  
Realist Novel ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road ◽  
At Home

At first glance there appears to be little similarity between John Mulgan's Man Alone (1939) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957).  One is a New Zealand realist novel that appeared just on the outbreak of World War Two, the other an American conffessional text that articulates the emergence of a post-World War Two counterculture.  Nevertheless, despite obvious differences in context, style and tone, both novels share a thematic concern with the reintegration of veterans to civilian life.  Both narratives focus on a male protagonist recently returned from global conflict who expresses unease regarding their environment and an inability to be at home within it. 

When Nations Remember: Hiroshima in the American Consciousness and Conscience

Prospects ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 467-488
Author(s):  
Alan G. Gross
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Central Place ◽  
World War ◽  
New Era ◽  
The City

Routinely represented by the mushroom cloud that arose from the city immediately subsequent to the atomic attack, Hiroshima has a central place in America's collective memory; it is, to borrow historian Pierre Nora's pregnant phrase, an American lieu de mémoire. In the American psyche, Hiroshima is not a place; it is an event of a special kind, one that is “immediately invested with symbolic significance” (Nora, 18). Even as the attack unfolded, even as the bomb left the bomb-bay doors, Hiroshima was “being commemorated in advance,” an event that was transformed, as it occurred, into a denning moment in national identity (18). Did the mushroom cloud mark an American triumph, the last act in the drama of World War II, or did it mask the inception of a new era for which America must take prime responsibility, an era of nuclear terror?

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