Manzoni’s Persistence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan White
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lasting Effect ◽  
Italian Culture ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Second World

On what terms are we in the twenty-first century best able to share in and appreciate what Manzoni himself bequeathed? Manzoni’s lasting effect upon Italian culture has been well studied in the past. The older tradition of generous tribute was followed by accounts of Manzoni’s writing that were well ‘this side idolatry’, in the criticism of Benedetto Croce as well as in a brief but suggestive comment by Antonio Gramsci. While all such earlier tributes and criticism still provide us with guidelines for enquiry, we need to take further soundings, tracking forward in cultural consciousness from the Second World War into our own times. What is Manzoni’s present and potential future standing, not merely in Italian culture, but as a ‘world’ author? This chapter argues that in his novel and certain other works Manzoni has left much that is still of compelling relevance to troubled times.

scholarly journals Na pograniczu pamięci współczesnych – (nie)pamięć o przeszłości słowackich Węgrów w słowackiej literaturze XXI wieku

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 66-80
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Słowikowska
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Slovak Society ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Second World

At the peripheries of memory: (Non-)memory about the past of Slovak Hungarians in twenty-first-century Slovak literatureThe aim of this article is to analyse the portrayal of Hungarians in the context of the Second World War in twenty-first-century Slovak literature on the example of the novels Stalo sa prveho septembra (alebo inokedy) (It happened on the first of September (or whenever)) by Pavol Rankov (2008) and Nedeľne šachy s Tisom (Sunday chess with Tiso) by Silvester Lavrík (2016). The article argues that the two novels demonstrate two types of forgetting described by Paul Connerton: “repressive erasure” and “forgetting that is constitutive in the formation of a new identity”. I analyse how these types of forgetting functioned in Slovak society, and conclude that the question of the Hungarian minority is becoming less of a taboo in contemporary Slovak literature, even if it still remains at the peripheries of Slovak memory about the Second World War. Na pograniczu pamięci współczesnych – (nie)pamięć o przeszłości słowackich Węgrów w słowackiej literaturze XXI wiekuCelem niniejszego artykułu jest udzielenie odpowiedzi na pytanie, jakie miejsce zajmuje pamięć o Węgrach w kontekście II wojny światowej w słowackiej literaturze XXI wieku na przykładzie powieści Stalo sa prveho septembra (alebo inokedy) Pavla Rankova (2008) oraz Nedeľne šachy s Tisom Silvestra Lavríka (2016). W wybranych przeze mnie powieściach można zaobserwować dwa typy zapomnienia wyróżnione przez Paula Connertona: „represyjne wymazywanie z pamięci” oraz „zapomnienie konstruktywne dla tworzenia nowej tożsamości”. Tym samym w tekstach widoczne są dwa główne sposoby zapomnienia o wydarzeniach II wojny światowej, które istniały w słowackim społeczeństwie. Wynikiem analizy jest stwierdzenie, że kwestia mniejszości węgierskiej we współczesnej literaturze słowackiej przestaje być kwestią tabu, chociaż nadal znajduje się na pograniczach słowackiej pamięci dotyczącej II wojny światowej.

scholarly journals The Oxford History of the Novel in English

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World

This book offers an account on the last eight decades of British and Irish prose fiction. It begins during the Second World War, when novel production fell by more than a third, and ends at a time when new technologies have made possible the publication of an unprecedented number of fiction titles and have changed completely the relationship between authors, publishers, the novel, and the reader. The chapters look at the impact of global warfare on the novel from the Second World War to the Cold War to the twenty-first century; the reflexive continuities of late modernism; the influence of film and television on the novel form; mobile and fluid connections between sexuality, gender, and different periods of women’s writing; a broad range of migrant and ethnic fictions; and the continuities and discontinuities of prose fiction in different regional, national, class, and global contexts. Across the volume there is a blurring of the boundary between genre fiction and literary fiction, as the literary thinking of the period is traced in the spy novel, the children’s novel, the historical novel, the serial novel, shorter fiction, the science fiction novel, and the comic novel. The final chapters of the volume explore the relationship of twenty-first century fiction to post-war culture, and show how this new fiction both emerges from the history of the novel, and prefigures the novel to come.

Ghetto and Suburb

Migrant City ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 28-56
Author(s):  
Panikos Panayi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
East End ◽  
Second World

This chapter examines patterns of migrant settlement in London. The visibility of migrants in London often became associated with concentration in what contemporary observers often essentially regarded as ghettoes — from the Irish ‘rookery’ in St Giles during the eighteenth century to the Jewish East End by the late Victorian period to the ‘coloured quarter’ immediately after the end of the Second World War, focused especially upon the East End, but increasingly moving to other parts of the capital, including South London, especially around Brixton. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the ethnic concentrations which had characterized the history of London became a feature of the entire metropolis, as a patchwork of ethnic concentrations developed. This apparent universalization of settlement based upon ethnic lines reflected the increasing numbers of migrants moving to London, as well as the growing diversification of these newcomers. Ghettoization, to the extent that it exists, offers just one way of understanding the living patterns of migrant populations in London.

scholarly journals Debating the Greek 1940s: histories and memories of a conflicting past since the end of the Second World War

HISTOREIN ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Manos Avgeridis
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Politics Of History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Second World

The article examines aspects of the long history of a major field of public debate in the second half of the twentieth century, that of the Greek 1940s, taking as its starting point the recent “history war” in Greece. It attempts to trace histories and memories from the immediate postwar years and to place them within a broader process: the historisation of the Second World War in Europe. In that context, the article begins by exploring one part of the initial efforts to form a European history of the resistance, from the perspective of the Greek case. Then, the focus is transferred to Greece, and to the mapping of a constellation of different memory and history communities, and the practices of history of the same period: the activities of veteran partisans and eye-witnesses with regard to their contribution to the formation of the first narratives on the war is a core issue at this level. Last, by following the developments in the academy and the politics of history during the Metapolitefsi, the focus returns to the current discussion, attempting a first approach to the subject through the strings that connect it with the past and, at the same time, as a debate of the twenty-first century. 

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