Paper Bombs

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-155
Author(s):  
Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Literary Response ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Post War

This chapter examines the literary response to the Nazi book-burnings, as well as to the piles of papery waste left behind by bombing raids. It begins with a reading of the now iconic photograph of readers browsing the stacks of the bombed Holland House library. Widely circulated, but entirely staged, the propagandistic photograph embodies a curious Blitz-era fascination with book violence, a fascination that wavers precariously between dread and desire. In novels written during the war, books are grotesquely transformed into weapons that, in Elizabeth Bowen’s words, have the potential to “blow whole places into existence.” This desire has its aftermath in the post-war imagination of new worlds emerging out of the ashes of destroyed books.

scholarly journals Head and Hands: Arthur van Schendel and Henricus Mertens, and Their Unique Role in the Development of the Rijksmuseum’s Paintings Restoration Studio (1930-70)

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-273
Author(s):  
Esther Van Duijn
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Nineteen Thirties ◽  
Unique Role ◽  
Technical Research ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Relationship

The unique character of a present-day conservator lies in the rare combination of working at an academic level with your head and at a craftsman level with your hands. This has not always been the case. Historically the role of a restorer was that of a technician, craftsman and artist, while that of the museum curator was that of a thinker, writer and academic. This article focuses on the relationship between the curator and later director, Arthur François Emile van Schendel, and the paintings restorer Henricus Hubertus Mertens. Both started their careers in the museum in the early nineteen-thirties. Van Schendel’s interest in restoration and technical research may have been kindled at that time, but was fanned during the war, when he worked with the museum’s two paintings restorers – Mertens and his colleague Christiaan Jenner – to preserve the paintings collection under difficult circumstances. After the war, Van Schendel continued to develop in this field and quickly became an internationally recognised authority. He was closely involved in the treatment of Rembrandt’s Night Watch, carried out by Mertens in 1946 and 1947. It brought the museum international acclaim and Mertens became known as the specialist in the restoration of Rembrandt paintings. Although the relationship between Mertens and Van Schendel became more distant as the decades progressed, the post-war paintings restoration studio grew into a renowned department with three permanent restorers and many national and international students. While Van Schendel was a key figure in the international field of restoration and technical research, for example as one of the founders of ICC, ICOM Care of Paintings and ICCROM, Mertens played a more modest role. His legacy was the paintings he left behind. His expertise was disseminated at a national and international level through his students. And so both Van Schendel and Mertens played their own unique role in bringing the restoration department of the museum internationally into view.

The Body Ill at Ease in Post-War Japanese Theatre

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-282
Author(s):  
Manabu Noda
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
International Association ◽  
The Body ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Right ◽  
General Secretary

Many theatre pieces in Japan now focus on a certain type of physicality which results from the sense of unease present in Japanese society. Manabu Noda argues that the senses of estrangement, distrust, apathy, helplessness, and incongruity in this supposedly democratic country come partly from the macho pressures under the right-wing Koizumi administration of 2001–06, and examines some current Japanese performances in the context of Japanese post-war society and of the continuing conflict in Iraq. He explores how these performances stage the body ill at ease – perceived as something irrevocably ‘left behind’ physically rather than textually. Manabu Noda is former general secretary of the Japan Centre of the International Association of Theatre Critics, and presently holds the position of Professor in the School of Arts and Letters at Meiji University in Tokyo. A theatre critic, he has also published books and essays on British and Japanese acting and theatre history. The present paper is based on a presentation in October 2006 at the conference ‘Foundation and Horizon of Hong Kong Performing Arts Criticism’, organized by the International Association of Theatre Critics in Hong Kong, and on a shortened version presented at the IATC 2006 Extraordinary Congress in Seoul.

scholarly journals REPUDIATING NOSTALGIA: THE DISILLUSIONED HOMELAND IN MIRKO DEMIĆ’S PENTALOGY

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 230-248
Author(s):  
Vladimir B. Perić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Cross ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Post War

Mirko Demić’s war pentalogy provides a complex and nuanced view of nostalgia as part of the epistemological world. The exile’s sorrow for a lost country is shown through the instability of the émigré’s post-war identity, the traumas caused by the 1990s wars on the territory of former Yugoslavia and the essential impossibility of a return. An unstable self contains emotional cracks that arise from the lack of homeland, the (self)naming of the refugee and his (self-)marginalization, reaching a climax in the narrator’s silence. The devastating effect of war is evident in the meticulously depicted entropy of a warrior’s psyche, a re-examination of desertion, a sense of superfluousness in the mad military carnival. A special narrative obsession with (Balkan) borders places the protagonists of Demić’s stories and novels in borderline situations. The national boundaries, the cross-border “walls”, essentially hinder the return of the expatriate, and his longing for the things he left behind intensifies.The wounded self attempts to achieve a measure of psychological equilibrium by opening the question of forgetting. Another important point is the narrator’s need to overcome the victim experience and his witnessing of violence, and to deal with nostalgia by rationalizing it, by suppressing the binary opposition of the place one longs for and the place one inhabits. The writer finds the means to abolish the stasis of homeland loss: in creating a superborder, a superstructure, a mythical parergon, a parable of Odysseus’s homecoming and a temporal escapism. In it, the literary topos of his homeland, Petrova Gora, is positioned in an ancient historical framework, suitable for the interpretation of agon, both within man and between warring nations.

scholarly journals France, Africa, and the First World War

1978 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Andrew ◽  
A. S. Kanya-Forstner
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War I ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
World War ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
French Colonial ◽  
War Aims ◽  
Post War

World War I marked the final phase of French colonial expansion. France's African war aims were determined not by the cabinet but by the leaders of the colonialist movement and by a handful of African enthusiasts in the colonial and foreign ministries. Most of these men harboured the unrealistic aim of acquiring not merely German territory but also other foreign ‘enclaves’ in A.O.F. At the peace conference, however, France's African gains were limited to mandates over the greater part of German West Africa.Before August 1914 no government had given serious thought to the potential contribution of French Africa, either in men or raw materials, to a war in Europe. The enormous losses on the Western Front led to the recruitment of French Africa's first great conscript army. By the end of the War French Africa had sent 450,000 soldiers and 135,000 factory workers to Europe. The crisis of French food supply also led in 1917–18 to the first concerted campaign, mounted jointly by the colonialists and the colonial ministry, for the mise en valeur of the Empire. But France's shipping losses made it impossible to increase her African imports.In the aftermath of victory French Africa appeared genuinely popular in France for the first time. The main reason for that popularity was the naïve belief that the resources of the Empire would free France from dependence on foreign suppliers and speed her post-war recovery. When the resources of the Empire proved even slower to arrive than reparations, the Empire quickly lost its newfound popularity. The War nonetheless left behind it the myth of the Empire as a limitless reservoir of men and raw materials: a myth which, though dormant for most of the inter-war years, was to be revived by the coming of World War II.

scholarly journals Displaced Archives, Displaced History: Recovering the Seized Archives of Indonesia

2013 ◽  
Vol 169 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 279-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Joseph Karabinos
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
High Ranking ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Archival Collection ◽  
History Of ◽  
Republican Government ◽  
New Nation ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract This article examines the post-war conflict of colonial retention that the Netherlands engaged in with Indonesia, and the invasion of Yogyakarta on 19 December 1948. While arresting high-ranking members of the Republican government, Dutch troops seized papers that were left behind. These documents were not returned to Indonesia until nearly 50 years later. By studying the archival collection, fluctuations in the relationship between Indonesia and the Netherlands are revealed. The seized archives relate directly to the building of a new nation; their history reflects the history of Indonesia.

La legge 167 e i ceti medi

TERRITORIO ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 75-81
Author(s):  
Filippo De Pieri
Keyword(s):  
Social Housing ◽  
Home Ownership ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Middle Classes ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Social Landscape ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Post War ◽  
The 1960S

The 1962 Law n. 167 played an important role in favouring the construction of residential buildings for middle classes in various Italian cities. Often associated with the construction of large social housing complexes, Law n. 167 also included support for large sectors of the middle classes to achieve home ownership among its objectives, following on from post-war ‘economical' housing policies. It was in fact the more ambitious interpretations of Law No. 167 in the 1960s and 1970s in Italy (those which saw it as the first step towards a structural reform of the 1942 law), which pushed for the inclusion of substantial quotas of construction for middle classes in zoning plans. Results in this period differed according to the local context and left behind them a varied building and social landscape, which still awaits a full assessment.

A Close Look at No Child Left Behind

ASHA Leader ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (17) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Susan Boswell
Keyword(s):  
No Child Left Behind ◽  
Left Behind
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