COMING OF AGE DURING WORLD WAR II

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-34
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
World War

The Formation of a Budding Man Alone: The God Boy (Murray Reece, 1976)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
World War ◽  
Value System ◽  
Feature Films ◽  
The Family

This chapter analyses the earliest of the New Zealand coming-of-age feature films, an adaptation of Ian Cross’s novel The God Boy, to demonstrate how it addresses the destructive impact on a child of the puritanical value-system that had dominated Pākehā (white) society through much of the twentieth century, being particularly strong during the interwar years, and the decade immediately following World War II. The discussion explores how dysfunction within the family and repressive religious beliefs eventuate in pressures that cause Jimmy, the protagonist, to act out transgressively, and then to turn inwards to seek refuge in the form of self-containment that makes him a prototype of the Man Alone figure that is ubiquitous in New Zealand fiction.

All at Sea: Coming of Age in World War II.

1997 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 407
Author(s):  
Richard W. Turk ◽  
Louis R. Harlan
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
World War

Sociological Discourses on Color, Class, and Gender, from Depression to World War II

Brown Beauty ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 225-260
Author(s):  
Laila Haidarali
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
African American Youth ◽  
Black Belt ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
World War ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Color Class ◽  
African America ◽  
And Gender

This chapter daws on three published sociological works: Franklin E. Frazier’s, Negro Youth at the Crossways (1940), Charles S. Johnson’s, Growing Up in the Black Belt (1941), and Charles H. Parrish’s, Color Names and Color Notions (1946). These sociological views on color showed brown identity as an emergent social ideal and image of African America, and in varying degrees drew crucial connections of brownness to values associated with an ascendant middle-class status. These sociologists are presented as racial liberals who offered concrete and critical assessments of the rising idealization of brown complexions among African American youth coming of age between the Great Depression and World War II.

A New Future for World War II?

1957 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. F. Giffin
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
War Of 1812 ◽  
National Strategy ◽  
World War ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Sea Power ◽  
The Military

Mahan wrote protractedly about sea power, although certainly not more than his notable subject deserved, without using an unqualified “Sea Power” as the title for any of his works. His “Sea Power in Its Relation to the War of 1812,” for example, was published in two volumes totaling 860 pages. Held against this standard of thoroughness, any book entitled “Air Power” and running a modest 200 pages should perhaps be suspect at the outset. The purchaser should nevertheless be entitled to anticipate that such a book would in fact concentrate on discussing air power, that air power would be defined and placed in perspective as an instrument of policy, and that knowledgeability would be exhibited with respect to existing and projected national air forces. The reader might also expect a full awareness of the scientific and technological revolution now proceeding at so accelerated a pace that air power in some respects has to repeat its coming of age almost annually. Some expectation might be justified that the author would make his own contribution toward concepts and philosophy touching the use of air forces and the place of air power. If the author was English, as is Mr. Lee, the reader could also confidently expect some appreciation of future British air power, more especially as the United Kingdom has unequivocally replaced its ancient reliance on sea power with a new reliance on air power as the military fulcrum of its national strategy.

How American Are We?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen D. Wu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Chinese Americans ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
World War ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
War Mobilization

This chapter illustrates how the experience of World War II was very different for Japanese and Chinese Americans. Configured as enemy aliens, Nikkei endured mass removal, internment, the effective nullification of their citizenship, and a coercive dispersal. Whereas the Chinese enjoyed sounder social footing as a result of their real and presumed ties to China, the United States' partner in the Pacific War against Japan. For all these disparities, however, war mobilization impacted Japanese and Chinese American lives in comparable ways. Most fundamentally for both groups, geopolitical forces opened up novel opportunities for national belonging. Encouraged by the outpouring of wartime racial liberal sentiment, Chinese Americans, especially the native-born cohorts just coming of age, asked new questions and desired new answers about life in the United States.

Family Trees and Timber Rights: Albert E. Jenks, Americanization, and the Rise of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 176-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Soderstrom
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
World War ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
The University ◽  
Family Trees

Hindsight allows present-day scholars to view the development of academic disciplines in a light that contemporaries would never have seen. Hence, from our perspective, Mary Furner's assertion that anthropology developed as a profession reacting against biology and the physical sciences makes sense, for we tend to celebrate the triumph of cultural anthropology as the coming of age of the discipline. However, this trajectory of professional development was not a necessary or predestined development. Rather, the eventual (if occasionally still embattled) predominance of culture over the categories of race, nation, and biology was only one of many possible outcomes. This paper investigates a different trajectory, one that most current scholars would hope has been relegated to the dustbin of history. It is still a cautionary tale, though, in that while the racial anthropology followed in this narrative did not survive World War II, its practitioners did enjoy a degree of prominence and influence that was much greater and longer than has been generally acknowledged by current accounts.

Turkish Youths in Berlin: Transnational Identification and Double Agency

2003 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
pp. 85-106
Author(s):  
Sabine Mannitz
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Guest Workers ◽  
World War ◽  
Culture Conflict ◽  
German Politics ◽  
Social Recovery ◽  
Turkish Migrant

Migration research has often stressed the adverse circumstances of Turkish immigrants living in Germany. The situation of the so-called second and third generations in particular has been seen as entailing a problematic double-bind of living “between two cultures.” In this scholarship, the image of such youth trapped in a structural culture conflict creates the impression that serious personal and emotional crises are an inevitable part of Turkish migrant youths' coming of age in Germany. Moreover, former guest workers and their families have been treated with a less than hospitable attitude insofar as efforts to facilitate their incorporation, for example, by way of the German legal system. Although the hiring of foreign laborers undeniably contributed to the economic and social recovery of West Germany after National Socialism and World War II, immigration has never been treated as a favorable option in German politics. The project of hiring laborers from abroad on a temporary basis gradually developed into de facto immigration, unintended on the part of both Germans and Turks. The resulting demographic multi-nationalization has not (yet), however, become a self-evident ingredient of the German conscience collective (Schiffauer, 1993, pp. 195-98). The very ambivalence of this situation influences the prevalent conceptualizations of the various social groups, as the following brief account illustrates.

scholarly journals 'You are too square, I need to straighten you out': The Tamed Rebels of 1950s Coming-of-Age Films in Cross-Cultural Perspective

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedemann J. Weidauer
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Movie Industry ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
World War ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
To Come

Coming-of-Age films have in common that they must address the social contradictions an adolescent experiences as he or she joins the world of adults. At the same time they have to come to a resolution of these contradictions that is acceptable to the audiences as well as the direct or indirect mechanisms of censorship of the movie industry. In the aftermath of World War II,  a number of social paradigms had been upset (as for example gender roles, intergenerational relations, representations of state and paternal authority).The 1950s were thus a time when the contradictions experienced by all generations of adolescents were even more acutely brought to the foreground and thus represent a particularly fertile ground for this genre. The Coming-of Age films of this period played a crucial role in reintroducing established social paradigms by way of offering “false closures” that temporarily offered resolutions to the contradictions experienced by this particular generation of young adults.

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