Triumph of the Dead: American World War II Cemeteries, Monuments, and Diplomacy in France

2020 ◽  
Vol 106 (4) ◽  
pp. 1117-1118
Author(s):  
Derek W. Frisby
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
The Dead

The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia.

1996 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Lynn Mally ◽  
Nina Tumarkin
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
The Dead

Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1947): singular experiences

2018 ◽  
pp. 118-135
Author(s):  
Steven Earnshaw
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
World War ◽  
Malcolm Lowry ◽  
Day Of The Dead ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Under The Volcano

Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano places the committed drinker, in the form of ex-Consul Geoffrey Firmin, in the Mexican ‘Day of the Dead’ festival, so that the main character encounters ‘hell’ in physical and spiritual dimensions. The novel is technically innovative in its aim to register the subjective experience of the Existential drinker: Geoffrey Firmin’s world is constructed through a highly-individualised, expressionistic symbolism, a mid-century representation of the modern, alienated self, abandoned and suffering despair in a Godless world – the latter made evident by the novel’s attention to the rise of totalitarianism, which forms the backdrop to the events here on a day close to the onset of World War II. There is discussion of the novel’s difficulty and form, and a comparison of some aspects of the novel with Kafka’s The Trial, and how these relate to representation of the Existential drinker.

scholarly journals Death Games and the Persistence of Memory: J. G. Ballard’s World War II Fictions

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Groppo
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Dead Time ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
The Sun ◽  
World War ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
War Narratives ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Textual Strategies

This article is a discussion of J. G. Ballard’s (semi-)autobiographical war narratives, with a focus on the different textual strategies and processes of signification Ballard employs from his avant-garde novel The Atrocity Exhibition (1970) to the feverish fictional account of his time in World War II China in “The Dead Time” (1977) and Empire of the Sun (1984) to his more reflective autobiographical texts The Kindness of Women (1990) and Miracles of Life (2008). Ballard’s obsessive repetition of many of the same images and attest to a problematics of representation of the traumatic event, and ultimately they represent a complex and rich work of fabulation that escape categorizations of fiction and autobiography.

scholarly journals Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead as a Novel of Manners

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 828-838
Author(s):  
Muhammad Khallaf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Norman Mailer ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Novel Of Manners ◽  
American Society

Norman Mailer (1923-2007) is one the most important figures among the American Writers, an extremely influenced personality in the post-world war II American Literature. He is best known for his first war novel The Naked and the Dead (1948), which is a commentary on the American society. Hence, the present study is an attempt to investigate and reflect the social ills and fragmentation, misery and the overwhelming social and political restraints that formed the American atmosphere at that time. Mailer is interested in what happens in the contemporary American society. His aim is to depict the national rituals of American life. The researcher in this study seeks to identify the literary aspects reflected and drawn in The Naked and the Dead that make us categorize it as a novel of manners for it is satiric and realistic in depiction, in which Mailer unprecedentedly characterizes the social mores, evils and customs that are characteristic of a particular class of people in a specific historical context. The descriptive approach along with detailed analysis is utilized in conducting the present study. The conclusion sums up the most important findings of the study.

Ancestors and Martyrs in Timor-Leste

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana de Matos Viegas
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Dead

This chapter reflects on the subject of ancestors: what are they in Timor- Leste? Assuming a comparative perspective, I argue that ancestors are inscribed in unilineal kinship dynamics implying mutuality of being. The category of martyrs emerges in the historical process of resistance against Indonesian occupation and should be understood as part of the lived experience of ancestorship and cosmic circularity (lulik circle). Contrasting constrained forms of honouring the dead imposed by colonial authorities after the Japanese invasion during World War II with the liveliness of the programmes destined to support reburials and pay tribute to martyrs in post-independence Timor-Leste, I argue that more than war heroes, martyrs inscribe the homage to the deceased in the conquest of freedom and self-determination.

John Le Carré’s Never-ending War of Exile

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phyllis Lassner
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
East Germany ◽  
World War ◽  
The Dead

This chapter shows how World War II is a central thematic and political presence in le Carré’s novels. Detailed studies of the expressionist techniques in Call for the Dead (1961) and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) show how Cold War intrigue is intertwined with unvanquished elements of Fascism that reappear in Britain as double agents now working for East Germany. Villainy and victimhood are also enmeshed as Holocaust survivors betrayed by western indifference turn to Communism, creating the tragic overtones of these political spy thrillers.

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