scholarly journals Autobiographisches Schreiben in Alfred Anderschs Prosa der 50er Jahre

2017 ◽  
pp. 121-133
Author(s):  
Joanna Jabłkowska
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Alfred Andersch

Alfred Andersch´s autobiographical texts from the 1950s have been heavily criticized in recent literature on the topic. W.G. Sebald´s essay about Andersch was of crucial importance. The details of Andersch´s stay in the Dachau concentration camp as well as the writer´s motivation to desert at the end of the war were questioned. The article aims at a new reading of Andersch´s autobiographical texts with regard to their credibility. It compares the early short story Flucht in Eturien with the autobiography Die Kirschen der Freiheit and a few less known texts. The analysis leads to the conclusion that Andersch “re-wrote” his biography as a creation that fulfils unconscious wishes of a whole generation. His intention was to adapt the image of decent young men of antifascist beliefs whose only guilt was the loyalty to their comrades.

Recursive generation in language

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Lobina
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Logic ◽  
Production System ◽  
General Property ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Expressive Power ◽  
The Self ◽  
Recursive Structure ◽  
Embedded Structures ◽  
Mechanical Procedure ◽  
The 1950S

The introduction of recursion into linguistics was the result of applying some of the results of mathematical logic to the study of language. In particular, recursion was introduced in the 1950s as a general property of the mechanical procedure underlying the grammar, in order to account for language’s discrete infinity and expressive power—in the 1950s, this mechanical procedure was a production system, whereas more recently, of course, it is the set-operator merge. Unfortunately, the recent literature has confused the general recursive property of a grammar with specific instances of (recursive) rules/operations within a grammar; more worryingly still, there has been a general conflation of these recursive rules with some of the self-embedded structures these rules can generate, adding to the confusion. The conflation is manifold but always fallacious. Moreover, language manifests a much more generally recursive structure than is usually recognized: bundles of the universal (Specifier)-Head-Complement(s) geometry.

“Heading for the Gun”: Skills and Sophistication in an African Guerrilla War

2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luise White
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Southern Sudan ◽  
Mau Mau ◽  
Guerrilla War ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Liberation Struggle ◽  
Shooting Ranges

For much of the last seventy-five years African combatants, especially in wars of their own making, have not been seen as masters of the guns they shoot. In Kenya in the 1950s, for example, captured Mau Mau were humiliated: they were taken to shooting ranges where they failed to hit a target with their guns. More recently, rebels in southern Sudan considered guns poor, if effective substitutes for more embodied weapons like spears, while young men in Sierra Leone fought with the weapons at hand such as knives or machetes, because they were too poor to obtain guns. When the armies of Ethiopia and Eritrea fought well and hard with sophisticated weapons, it was said to be the result of Cold War rivalries or national agendas gone berserk. Rhodesia's bush war, Zimbabweans' liberation struggle, suggests something else, a space shaped by technology and clientelism in which guns, most especially guns in guerrilla hands, exemplify very specific European ideas about Africans, that they are skilled and sophisticated.

Favelas for Sale

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kátia da Costa Bezerra
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Cultural Productions ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Way

This chapter analyzes the short-story “Maria Déia” written by Lia Vieira, which traces the story of some residents who were evicted from Morro de Santo Antonio in the 1950s. It also examines the video ImPACtos produced in 2010 by the collective multimedia group Favela em Foco. These two cultural productions enable us to trace a series of discourses/modes of representation that have been used to legitimize and justify urban interventions. This chapter examines the way both cultural productions challenge the recurring, dominant representations of favelas as a space of otherness and/or spectacles of consumption. The chapter illustrates how these cultural productions allow us to understand that these urban interventions are not simply a dispute over the control of a territory, but are part of the continuing struggle over the meanings and boundaries vis-à-vis conflicting views of citizenship and belonging.

“What They Had between Their Legs Was a Form of Cash”

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-78
Author(s):  
Alessio Ponzio
Keyword(s):  
Young Men ◽  
Italian Society ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Mass Circulation ◽  
Queer Spaces ◽  
Bear Witness

This article, showing how ubiquitous male youth prostitution was in 1950s Italy, exposes the pederastic and (homo)sexual vivacity of this decade. Moreover, this article also suggests that even if police, the media, and medical institutions were trying to crystallize a rigid chasm between homo- and heterosexuality, there were still forces in Italian society that resisted such strict categorization. The young hustlers described by contemporary observers bear witness to the sexual flexibility of the 1950s in Italy. These youths inhabited queer spaces lacking a clear-cut hetero–homo divide, spaces where “modern” sexological categories and identities had not yet entered. Prior to the mass circulation of rigid sexual labels, it was still possible for many Italian boys, youths, and young men to dwell in liminal queer spaces. The exchange of money purified their acts, guaranteed their maleness, and effaced potential stigmatization.

scholarly journals “THE SHAWL”, THE SUBALTERN, AND THE CASE OF THE SUBALTERN GENOCIDE

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-160
Author(s):  
Natan Gultom
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Jewish Woman ◽  
Concentration Camp ◽  
World War ◽  
Subaltern Studies ◽  
Holocaust Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

Holocaust studies post-World War II have found ways in intersecting to other studies within the Postmodern era. In 1980, a short-story “The Shawl” was written depicting a holocaust brutality done towards the Jews. The story revolves around a Jewish woman, Rosa, that lived through the bitterness of seeing her daughter, Magda, being slaughtered in a concentration camp. In the context of “The Shawl”, this article would like to describe the relationship between holocaust studies and the subaltern studies within postcolonialism. Furthermore, this article discusses if there are hints “The Shawl” invokes a sentiment for the Jews to take revenge towards their former oppressors. The aim of this article is to further the argument “The Shawl” has no characteristics of taking revenge which eventually leads to subaltern genocide. “The Shawl” functions better as a remembrance so generations of the future do not repeat the horrors of the past.

Murderous Cars, Space Bikes, and Alien Bicycles in the Golden Age

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-96
Author(s):  
Jeremy Withers
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Ray Bradbury ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter focuses on several works from the ‘Golden Age’ of the 1950s in which bicycles prominently appear. After first examining cars and walking in some works by Ray Bradbury, the discussion turns to a novel by Robert A. Heinlein, a novelette by Poul Anderson, and a short story by Avram Davidson. This chapter argues that these three texts favor portrayals of ‘low-tech’ bicycles as pragmatic, reliable machines worthy of continued use and appreciation, and of bicycles as potent pieces of technology capable of inspiring awe.

7. Chekhov’s heirs

2021 ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Andrew Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Long Line ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Anglo American

‘Chekhov’s heirs’ highlights Anton Chekhov’s influence on the Anglo-American tradition of the short story. From the 1920s, and especially from the 1950s, a long line of short story writers have virtually self-identified as Chekhovians. Technically, there is no formula for writing a Chekhovian story. However, Chekhov advises against ‘lengthy verbiage’ and favours ‘extreme brevity’ and ‘total objectivity’. Chekhov’s stories are full of unfulfilled dreamers and therefore rich in ironies that usually remain latent, but once perceived show everything in a new light. Three fascinating stories written by Chekhovians include: Raymond Carver’s ‘Errand’ (1987), Grace Paley’s ‘A Conversation with my Father’ (1972), and Frank O’Connor’s ‘A Bachelor’s Story’ (1955).

Combined EBSD and AFM Study of the Corrosion Behaviour of ETP-Cu

2011 ◽  
Vol 702-703 ◽  
pp. 673-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linsey Lapeire ◽  
Esther Martinez Lombardia ◽  
Kim Verbeken ◽  
Iris de Graeve ◽  
Leo Kestens ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recent Literature ◽  
Electron Backscatter Diffraction ◽  
Chemical Interaction ◽  
Corrosion Behaviour ◽  
Corrosion Process ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
Atomic Force ◽  
Grain Boundary Characteristics ◽  
Boundary Characteristics ◽  
Backscatter Diffraction

In order to increase the sustainability of metals, a more detailed understanding of the corrosion process is of crucial importance. Current literature often considers corrosion as a purely chemical interaction with a nearly exclusive dependence on compositional effects, while ignoring microstructural and crystallographic properties of the metal surface. Some recent literature data, however, suggest an important effect of microstructural elements such as grain size, crystallographic orientation and grain boundary characteristics. The aim of this work is to obtain a better understanding of the relation between the corrosion behaviour of a metal and its microstructural and crystallographic features. Therefore, warm rolled Electrolytic Tough Pitch (ETP-) Cu was immersed in a 0.1 M NaCl and 0.5M Na2SO4 solution and the combination of Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) and Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) allowed to identify differences in attack for different crystallographic orientations.

Izumi, Kyōka (1873–1939)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Wetmore
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Dramatic Literature ◽  
Transitional Form ◽  
New Model ◽  
Stage Adaptations ◽  
Popular Novel

Izumi Kyōka was a novelist and shinpa playwright whose plays provided the heart of the shinpa repertory and demonstrated a new model for dramatic literature. Izumi’s work tended toward anti-Naturalism, with supernatural elements, Romanticism, and a yearning for the premodern past. His plays represent a transitional form from traditional to modern Japanese theater. Izumi emerged in the 1890s as a novelist and short story author. Other writers adapted Izumi’s novels for the shinpa stage, evoking the Tokugawa era while also embracing the mood and modes of Meiji and Taisho Japan. Most notably, Kawakami Otojiro adapted Izumi’s 1894 novel Giketsu kyōketsu [Loyal Blood, Valiant Blood] as Taki no shiraito, the first full-fledged shinpa adaptation of a popular novel. It remains shinpa and Izumi’s most successful drama. The floodgates opened on a series of stage adaptations of popular literature. A dozen plays adapted from Izumi’s fiction, including Tatsumi kōdan [A Tale of the Southwest Quarter] (1900), Tsuya monogatari [The Virgin’s Tale] (1906), Shirasagi [The White Heron] (1910) and Keiko ōgi [The Practice Fan] (1912). Izumi’s novels tended toward stories of young men in tragic relationships with female entertainers. Strong maternal figures in these stories can be traced back to his mother dying when he was ten years old. Izumi received no royalties from these adaptations, but they brought him fame and public interest, which revived his career.

‘“Gender, genre and nationality”’: Alice Munro’s forging of her short story way

1970 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-137
Author(s):  
Isla Duncan
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Short Fiction ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Alice Munro ◽  
Narrative Art ◽  
Contemporary Writers ◽  
The 1950S

In the first part of this article, I argue that Alice Munro, in her early career, was disadvantaged by her gender, by her Canadianness, and by her commitment to short fiction. She has overcome most of the obstacles and prejudices she faced in the 1950s and 1960s, and is regarded as one of the world’s finest contemporary writers. In the latter part of my article, I discuss the distinctive qualities of her narrative art, maintaining that they have become Munrovian hallmarks and are enhanced in her chosen form, the short story.

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