scholarly journals The Heroine Concept in a Filipino Graphic Narrative

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Estrella T. Arroyo
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Real Character ◽  
World War ◽  
Lexical Meaning ◽  
The Real ◽  
Graphic Narrative ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Pop Literature

This study explored the concept of “HEROINE” in the context of “Darna,” a Filipino graphic narrative written by Mars Ravelo that was first published on May 13, 1950 by Filipino Komiks. Extracted from the 27 episodes of “Darna” are realities of experience as well as innuendos related to the real character of Darna, the super heroine. Further, the study delved into a deeper meaning of heroine beyond its lexical meaning. As a result, the researcher formulated her own definition of “HEROINE” as “Humaneness and Equanimity in Reimagining Optimistic, Iconic, Novel, and Empowered” persona, which led to the findings that, indeed, Darna has reached her apotheosis as a superheroine. These insights were not fathomed had it not been for the researcher’s focus on close reading, application of Expressive Realism, and “Argustic” reading. Keen eyes are needed to enjoy reading a graphic narrative which is both visual and verbal. The study proved that in Philippine society, Darna is the most accepted, loved and idolized Filipino icon as savior of a devastated and crippled society after World War II. Lastly, it is aimed that this humble analysis will put itself into the realm of a body of Pop Literature and the Humanities. 

Foundations for a New World Order: Uniting Protestant Worship during the World War II Japanese American Incarceration

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 304-316
Author(s):  
Anne M. Blankenship
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
New World Order ◽  
World War ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Church

During the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans, visions of a peaceful new world order led mainline Protestants to manipulate the worship practices of incarcerated Japanese Americans ( Nikkei) to strengthen unity of the church and nation. Ecumenical leaders saw possibilities within the chaos of incarceration and war to improve themselves, their church, and the world through these experiments based on ideals of Protestant ecumenism and desires for racial equality and integration. This essay explores why agendas that restricted the autonomy of racial minorities were doomed to fail and how Protestants can learn from this experience to expand their definition of unity to include pluralist representations of Christianity and America as imagined by different sects and ethnic groups.

Remediation and hypermediacy: Ezekiel’s World as a case in point

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-229
Author(s):  
Ayelet Kohn ◽  
Rachel Weissbrod
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Original Work ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Holocaust Survivors ◽  
World War ◽  
Graphic Narrative ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
Graphic Narratives ◽  
Jewish Resistance ◽  
Resistance Movement

This article deals with Kovner’s graphic narrative Ezekiel’s World (2015) as a case of remediation and hypermediacy. The term ‘remediation’ refers to adaptations which involve the transformation of the original work into another medium. While some adaptations strive to eliminate the marks of the previous medium, others highlight the interplay between different media, resulting in ‘hypermediacy’. The latter approach characterizes Ezekiel’s World due to its unique blend of artistic materials adapted from different media. The author, Michael Kovner, uses his paintings to depict the story of Ezekiel – an imaginary figure based on his father, the poet Abba Kovner who was one of the leaders of the Jewish resistance movement during World War II. While employing the conventions of comics and graphic narratives, the author also makes use of readymade objects such as maps and photos, simulates the works of famous artists and quotes Abba Kovner’s poems. These are indirect ways of confronting the traumas of Holocaust survivors and ‘the second generation’. Dealing with the Holocaust in comics and graphic narratives (as in Spiegelman’s Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, 1986) is no longer an innovation, nor is their use as a means to deal with trauma; what makes this graphic narrative unique is the encounter between the works of the poet and the painter, which combine to create an exceptionally complex work integrating poetry, art and graphic narration.

Americanization and Beika

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuko Matsumoto
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
World War ◽  
Full Membership ◽  
Japanese Immigrants ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Gendered Stereotypes ◽  
The U.S

The Americanization movement in the early twentieth century tried to redefine the qualifications for full membership within the nation. In the same period, the anti-Asian movement flourished. Responding actively to the discourses of anti-Japanese (and Asian) movements, Japanese immigrants tried to prove their eligibility for full membership in the U.S. nation by following their own interpretation of Americanization, or Beika (米化‎) in Japanese. The ideas of Beika were based on idealized Japanese virtues, as well as on what was required by the Americanization movement. Even though they used the parallel terms in ideas of Beika, however, the gender discourses such as virtues of Yamatonadeshiko and the definition of family highlighted the difference between the views of Americanization and those of Beika despite their similar intention. This gap in perception might have reinforced the racialized and gendered stereotypes on both sides and hindered mutual understanding before World War II.

The American Conception of National Security and the Beginnings of the Cold War, 1945–1948

2019 ◽  
pp. 117-163
Author(s):  
Melvyn P. Leffler
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
National Security ◽  
Military Officers ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Conflict ◽  
Civilian Leaders ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Political Ferment

This chapter considers how the concept of national security evolved. It demonstrates that U.S. military officers and their civilian leaders did not think that the Kremlin was poised to engage in premeditated military aggression during the Cold War. They did not think Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin wanted to begin another war. They grasped Stalin's view of his own military vulnerabilities and intuited that he wished to avoid military conflict. Nonetheless, U.S. officials felt threatened. They felt threatened precisely because of the lessons they had learned from World War II itself and the definition of America's vital interests that waging World War II had taught them. They had learned that an adversary, or coalition of adversaries, that conquered other countries could assimilate their resources into their own military machine, wage aggressive war, and challenge America's vital interests. Although the Kremlin seemed unlikely to wage war, it nevertheless had the capacity to gain indirect leverage or control over many countries in Europe and Asia because of the political ferment, economic chaos, social strife, and revolutionary nationalist fervor that existed in the aftermath of war.

scholarly journals 1. The radar meteor echo (survey paper)

1968 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Millman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Meteor Shower ◽  
New Technique ◽  
World War ◽  
The Real ◽  
Survey Paper ◽  
Radar Meteor

From about 1930 on various scattered notes appeared from time to time, pointing out certain radio effects that probably resulted from meteors. However, the real birth of the serious observation of meteors by radio took place on the night of October 9–10, 1946, when the Giacobinid meteor shower returned in considerable strength. This was observed with re-built World-War II radar equipment in both England and the U.S.A., and the results achieved left no doubt concerning the value of the new technique in meteoric astronomy. Figure 1 illustrates two historic examples of meteor echoes recorded in England on this occasion (Appleton and Naismith, 1947; Hey et al., 1947). Since this date the field has expanded rapidly. Useful general summaries may be found in a number of monographs, e.g., Lovell (1954), McKinley (1961).

Boxing Pandora

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy William Waters
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
International Order ◽  
World War ◽  
The Real ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New States ◽  
Real Danger ◽  
National Borders

The inviolability of national borders is an unquestioned pillar of the post-World War II international order. Fixed borders are believed to encourage stability, promote pluralism, and discourage nationalism and intolerance. But do they? What if fixed borders create more problems than they solve, and what if permitting borders to change would create more stability and produce more just societies? This book examines this possibility, showing how we arrived at a system of rigidly bordered states and how the real danger to peace is not the desire of people to form new states but the capacity of existing states to resist that desire, even with violence. The book proposes a practical, democratically legitimate alternative: a right of secession. With crises ongoing in the United Kingdom, Spain, Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and many other regions, this reassessment of the foundations of our international order is more relevant than ever.

James Guy: A Surreal Commentator

Prospects ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 125-148
Author(s):  
Ilene Susan Fort
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Art World ◽  
World War ◽  
American Artists ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Definition Of

During the decade prior to World War II, James Guy (1910–1983) achieved a substantial reputation in the New York art world. He was one of the earliest American exponents of surrealism, adopting it years before the abstract expressionists responded to the aesthetic. Guy used surrealism as a vehicle for social criticism, creating some of the most pungent attacks on the societal ills of his day. The Depression was a period when many American artists became socially and politically concerned and viewed their art as an instrument of change. Most of these artists have been labeled social realists. While recent literature on socially conscious artists of the 1930s has expanded the term to include artists who do not exactly fit the definition of social realists, no reference to Guy has been given in any of these surveys.

Financing the British War Effort

1958 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-199
Author(s):  
J. R. T. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Financial Policy ◽  
World War ◽  
Financial History ◽  
The Real ◽  
War Finance ◽  
War Effort ◽  
History Of

War is a drain on resources, both of manpower and of materials. The object of government financial policy in time of war is primarily to ease the real drain by making its monetary counterpart work as smoodily as possible. In a long and brilliantly written book R. S. Sayers has provided a meaty account of Britain's financial policy during World War II. Any serious study of the problems of war finance or the financial history of World War II would do well to begin with this volume.

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