Il suicidio di Cesare Pavese (1908-1950)

César Pavese (1908-50) es un poeta y novelista italiano que ha traducido los escritos de varios americanos al italiano y ha escrito crítica literaria. Sus escritos antifascistas lo llevaron al encarcelamiento, lo que motivó en él la escritura creativa. Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, formó parte de la resistencia. Pavese fue encontrado muerto en la habitación de un hotel en Torino.Por lo general, la ficción de Pavese versa sobre los conflictos de la vida contemporánea, entre ellos la búsqueda de una identidad propia. Esta búsqueda se da por ejemplo en La luna e ifalo (1950) considerada su mejor novela. Cesare Pavese( 1908-50), Italian poet and novelist. He also translated the writings of numerous Americans into Italian and wrote Iiterary criticismo His anti-Fascist writings led to his imprisonment, which in tum led to his creative writing. During World War II he was part of the Resistence.Pavese's fiction generally deals with the conflicts of contemporary life, such as the search for self identity-as in The Moon and the Bonfires (1950), regarded as his best novel. He was found life less in his room in a hotel of Torino.

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Bohdan Boichuk’s Childhood Reveries: A Migrant’s Nostalgia, or, Documenting Pain in Poetry

10.31235/osf.io/m6jv5 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Maria G. Rewakowicz

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Creative Writing ◽

Traumatic Experiences ◽

Childhood Memories ◽

World War ◽

Classic Work ◽

Healing Power ◽

Poetic Imagination

This paper examines Bohdan Boichuk’s poetry by looking into the role his childhoodmemories played in forming his poetic imagination. Displaced by World War II, the poet displays a unique capacity to transcend his traumatic experiences by engaging in creative writing. Eyewitnessing war atrocities perpetrated by the Nazis does not destroy his belief in the healing power of poetry; on the contrary, it makes him appreciate poetry as the only existentially worthy enterprise. Invoking Gaston Bachelard’s classic work The Poetics of Reveries: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos, I argue that Boichuk’s vivid childhood memories, however painful they might be, helped him poetically recreate and reimagine fateful moments of his migrant life. REWAKOWICZ, Maria G.. Bohdan Boichuk’s Childhood Reveries: A Migrant’s Nostalgia, or, Documenting Pain in Poetry. Kyiv-Mohyla Humanities Journal, n. 5, p. 133-142, 2018. ISSN 2313-4895. Available at: . doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.18523/kmhj150392.2018-5.133-142.

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Post-war fashion tips in the popular fashion press in Poland: A source of psychological support in the 'struggle for femininity'

Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty ◽

10.1386/csfb_00003_1 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 221-243

Author(s):

Magdalena Idem

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Rural Women ◽

Early Years ◽

Crossing Over ◽

World War ◽

Self Identity ◽

Practical Advice ◽

Practical Life ◽

Post War ◽

Large Readership

Abstract Social conditions in Poland were harsh at the conclusion of World War II. Surprisingly, interest in fashion revived quickly after the war, giving rise in 1945 to a hugely popular fashion press, avidly read by Polish women. The independent magazine Fashion and Practical Life (Moda i Życie Praktyczne), launched in December 1945, was the first of its kind in Poland after the war, and quickly gained a large readership of urban and rural women (and significant numbers of men). It centred on fashion tips ‐ from practical advice on how to remodel existing material into new clothing to more aspirational ideas, crossing over from the necessities of dress or clothing into the more imaginary realm of 'fashion'.Unlike readers of the fashion press before the war, the readership of this magazine was not leisured or highly literate, but largely 'ordinary' women trying to deal with the realities of their circumstances and to find relief from them. Letters from readers were the centre of the magazine in its early years. They shared their experiences and solutions. This article explores the phenomenon of a genre of publishing for women in Poland through analysis of Fashion and Practical Life from its inception into the early 1950s. It examines the contexts in which it operated and its role in the representation and self-identity of Polish women within this time of transition. The article identifies two key typologies for fashion tips: 'poor fashion' (how to make available materials into liveable garments) and 'imaginary fashion' (the aspirations that Polish women had but could not attain at that time). It also shows that apparently emancipatory trends for women were short-lived. By the early 1950s the narrative of the fashion press reinscribed Polish women back in the home, as housewives.

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The American ‘Cause’ in Vietnam, 1941-1965

Itinerario ◽

10.1017/s0165115300009591 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 59-78

Author(s):

Lloyd C. Gardner

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

World Order ◽

The United States ◽

The Moon ◽

World War ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Closed Economies ◽

Lyndon Johnson ◽

The Creation

Before World War II, French Indochina little concerned American policymakers. The idea of sending half a million men to fight a war there would have seemed as fantastic as sending a man to the moon. Even after John F. Kennedy decided that the United States should - and could - send a man to the moon, the idea of sending half a million men to Vietnam still seemed fantastic. When George Ball expressed fears that such a possibility indeed existed if matters were allowed to continue until incremental creep became an avalanche, the president was astounded. ‘George’, Kennedy admonished him, ‘you're just crazier than hell. That just isn't going to happen.’ Historians still debate whether Kennedy would have followed the same path Lyndon Johnson took in Vietnam, thereby fulfilling George Ball's seemingly absurd prophecy. My purpose here is not to rehearse the arguments in that debate. Instead, I want to talk about the American ‘cause’ in Vietnam, and how, beginning in World War II, a generalised concern with the problem of closed economies and the creation of a post-colonial world order finally became focused on Vietnam.

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Regionalists, The

Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism ◽

10.4324/9781135000356-rem195-1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Lara Kuykendall

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

Cultural History ◽

Abstract Expressionism ◽

The United States ◽

Visual Artists ◽

Critical Approach ◽

World War ◽

The Great Depression ◽

Contemporary Life

The visual artists known as the Regionalists rose to prominence in the United States during the 1930s. They advocated the use of realistic styles to depict the lives and environs of everyday Americans. The most well-known Regionalists were Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry, whose paintings and prints chronicled the agrarian Midwest. During the Great Depression, Regionalism was seen as a comfortingly accessible mode of art. It appeared to celebrate American cultural history using a realistic figural style that repudiated abstraction, which was understood to be a European import. The populist art group Associated American Artists successfully marketed and sold lithographs by many Regionalists to middle-class patrons across the country, thereby extending Regionalism’s influence to those who were not accustomed to owning works of art. The Regionalists’ views of American life were not exclusively flattering, but their approach differed from the critical approach of Social Realists like Ben Shahn or Philip Evergood, whose works illuminated injustices they perceived in contemporary life. The regionalist heyday drew to a close with the advent of World War II and the development of Abstract Expressionism.

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Cold War Legacies

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474409483.001.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Cold War ◽

Contemporary Fiction ◽

World War ◽

Futures Research ◽

Contemporary Life ◽

Smart Weapons ◽

Organisational Structures ◽

The Cold War ◽

Research Pattern

What are the legacies of the Cold War? This interdisciplinary collection explores how, in a number of fundamental ways, contemporary life and thought continue to be shaped by theories, technologies and attitudes that were forged during World War II and developed into organisational structures during the long Cold War. From futures research, pattern recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance technologies, to smart weapons systems, contemporary fiction and art, this book shows that we live in a world imagined and engineered during the Cold War.

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BEYOND “ACADEMICIZATION”: THE POSTWAR AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Modern Intellectual History ◽

10.1017/s1479244311000072 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 127-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

RICHARD F. TEICHGRAEBER

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Creative Writing ◽

Intellectual History ◽

The United States ◽

Writing Programs ◽

Degree Programs ◽

Graduate Degree ◽

World War ◽

American University ◽

Creative Writing Programs

The still astonishing expansion of the American university since World War II has transformed the nation's intellectual and cultural life in myriad ways. Most intellectual historians familiar with this period would agree, I suppose, that among the conspicuous changes is the sheer increase in the size and diversity of intellectual and cultural activity taking place on campuses across the country. After all, we know that colleges and universities that employ us also provide full- and part-time academic appointments to novelists, poets, playwrights, filmmakers, choreographers, composers, classical and jazz musicians, painters, photographers, and sculptors, even though most of them probably began their careers with little or no desire to join us in the halls of academe. This now widespread employment practice has decentralized the nation's literary and artistic talent. It also has made for a manifold increase in degree-granting programs in writing and the creative arts. One example will suffice here. When World War II ended, there were a small handful of university-based creative-writing programs. Over the course of the next thirty years, the number increased to fifty-two. By 1985, there were some 150 graduate degree programs offering an MA, MFA, or PhD. As of 2004, there were more than 350 creative-writing programs in the United States, all staffed by practicing writers and poets, many of whom now also hold advanced degrees in creative writing. (If one includes current undergraduate degree programs, the number grows to 720.)

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An Explaining of the Components of Occidentosis: A Plague by the West and Returning to Self-identity in Jalal Al-e-Ahmad’s Thoughts

International Journal of Social Science Research and Review ◽

10.47814/ijssrr.v2i3.24 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 18-35

Author(s):

Jalal Nezafat

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Postcolonial Theory ◽

National Identities ◽

Political Life ◽

World War ◽

The West ◽

Traditional Beliefs ◽

Self Identity ◽

Essay Writing ◽

Library Resources

After World War II, new branches were added to sciences, especially the humanities. Due to the extensive interaction between the East and the West, the translation and summarization of the Western written works and the return of graduates to the country from abroad created a dramatic development in all affairs of the Eastern countries. One of the most important changes that took place was modernization, which swept across the various political, social, and personal domains of most Western societies and affected many people in these societies. The clash between tradition and modernity led to the overshadowing of traditional beliefs and the personal and national identities of Eastern societies in interaction with the West; thus, it made some Eastern intellectuals, writers, and thinkers oppose the teachings of modernism so that they strongly emphasized the necessity of returning to self-identity and native traditions. Based on the above approach, the present article seeks to answer what Westernization and return to self-identify in the thoughts of Jalal Al-e-Ahmad mean. It can be said that by turning to fiction, essay writing, travelogue writing and bringing up diverse social themes in different forms, Sayyid Jalal Al-e-Ahmad brought up the concern for returning to self-identity and Westernization, and in his book, “Occidentosis: A Plague by the West”, he criticized modernity. Then, he emphasized identity and historical traditions that are discussed in detail in this study. In addition, in this research, while analyzing the political life of Jalal Al-e-Ahmad through descriptive-analytic method, his thoughts and views on Westernization are analyzed and elaborated on with an emphasis on a postcolonial theory by relying on library resources.

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