scholarly journals Autofiction, Colonial Massacres and the Politics of Memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-22
Author(s):  
Hywel Dix
Keyword(s):  
World War ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
World War One ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
African Slaves ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Postcolonial Writers

: I argue that the emerging genre of autofiction provides a number of useful techniques and methods by which postcolonial writers engage with the politics of memory in their depiction of a number of largely forgotten brutalities committed by the European imperial powers during the colonial era. More specifically, two of the elements of autofictional practice that have been of particular interest to postcolonial writers are its capacity to mediate between individual and collective forms of memory on the one hand; while also radically destabilizing notions of absolute truth and authenticity on the other. Drawing on research into the relationship between writing and forms of public commemoration, the article analyses Fred D’Aguiar’s portrayal of the killing of African slaves thrown overboard the slave ship Zong in 1781 in Feeding the Ghosts (1997); Kamila Shamsie’s depiction of the massacre of demonstrators protesting against colonial rule in India in Peshawar in 1930 in A God in Every Stone (2014); and Jackie Kay’s homage to the sinking of the SS Mendi, a ship carrying southern African non-combatant personnel to assist in the British effort in World War One in “Lament for the Mendi Men” (2011). It will suggest that even though these texts are not strictly works of autofiction, the techniques afforded by that genre are useful to those writers seeking to draw attention towards a number of neglected historical events. Colonial massacres, enslavement of people and naval disasters during the imperial period have received far less historical or cultural memorialization than other more widely recognized historical events such as VE Day or the Somme. By establishing these events as being culturally and morally important to remember, the article will argue, autofiction provides a number of tools for engaging with the politics of public memory and commemorative events in the present

The public image of women in post-Taliban Afghanistan

2021 ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
Dr Rose Fazli ◽  
Dr Anahita Seifi
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Public Image ◽  
World War ◽  
Afghan Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Afghan Woman

The present article is an attempt to offer the concept of political development from a novel perspective and perceive the Afghan Women image in accordance with the aforementioned viewpoint. To do so, first many efforts have been made to elucidate the author’s outlook as it contrasts with the classic stance of the concept of power and political development by reviewing the literature in development and particularly political development during the previous decades. For example Post-World War II approaches to political development which consider political development, from the Hobbesian perspective toward power, as one of the functions of government. However in a different view of power, political development found another place when it has been understood via postmodern approaches, it means power in a network of relationships, not limited to the one-way relationship between ruler and obedient. Therefore newer concept and forces find their way on political development likewise “image” as a considerable social, political and cultural concept and women as the new force. Then, the meaning of “image” as a symbolic one portraying the common universal aspect is explained. The Afghan woman image emphasizing the historic period of 2001 till now is scrutinized both formally and informally and finally the relationship between this reproduced image of Afghan women and Afghanistan political development from a novel perspective of understanding is represented.

scholarly journals Locust problem in the ottoman empire in world war one

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 2125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ümmügülsüm Candeğer
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Local People ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Balance Of Nature ◽  
Crop Fields ◽  
Major Disaster ◽  
The World ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Relationship

Humankind has faced many disasters since the beginning. It is evident that some of the disasters have occurred because of natural reasons but some others happen because of man who destroyed the balance of nature. Humankind has been in an endless struggle with the nature. Fighting with the disasters like earthquake, flood, fire, plaque, famine and locust outbreaks can be in two ways; The first way of struggling such disasters is prevention and the second one is recovering the loss after the incident. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the war known as the disaster created by humankind and locust plaque as the natural disaster.Locust invasion was one of frequent problems that occurred repeatedly in Ottoman Empire. Affecting Western and Southern Anatolia and Arab Provinces, it made life miserable for people living there especially in the period between the last quarter of XIX. Century and the first quarter of XX. Century and it turned into a major disaster. Locust disaster caused material and non-material damage to either local people or to the state. Swarms of locust which devoured farmlands of thousands acres damaged the crops in the area destroying the livelihoods of local people. Therefore, people whose crop fields were devastated faced famine. Considering the fact that the country was involved in the World War One, the disaster became worse. When the parliament records of the period were examined, it is seen that the First Turkish Parliament held congress over the issue and heated debates took place.In the first part of the study, we will be focusing on the dangers of locusts in terms of agriculture. The effects of locust plaque in Western and Southern Anatolia and the treatments local people applied to solve the problem will be discussed by examining the archival files. In the second part of the research, examining the archives of the first parliament, the debates about the locust plaque in the parliament, the decisions made after the debates or enacted laws and enforcement of these laws will be examined.

scholarly journals Poetic Frameworks and Narrative Procedures of Bosnia and Herzegovina Novels about Kulin Ban

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4(17)) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Melida Travančić
Keyword(s):  
Past History ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
The Past ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This paperwork presents the literary constructions of Kulin Ban's personality in contemporary Bosnian literature on the example of three novels: Zlatko Topčić Kulin (1994), Mirsad Sinanović Kulin (2007), and Irfan Hrozović Sokolarov sonnet (2016). The themes of these novels are real historical events and historical figures, and we try to present the way(s) of narration and shape the image of the past and the way the past-history-literature triangle works. Documentary discourse is often involved in the relationship between faction and fiction in the novel. Yet, as can be seen from all three novels, it is a subjective discourse on the perception of Kulin Ban today and the period of his reign, a period that could be characterized as a mimetic time in which great, sudden, and radical changes take place. If the poetic extremes of postmodernist prose are on the one hand flirting with trivia, and on the other sophisticated meta- and intertextual prose, then the Bosnian-Herzegovinian romance of the personality of Kulina Ban fully confirms just such a range of stylistic-narrative tendencies of narrative texts of today's era.

Fin-de-siècle Lyrical Drama and the European Modernist Sensibility on the Eve of World War One

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 242-259
Author(s):  
Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
European Thought ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Identity And Difference ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Tristan And Isolde

The paper analyses the relationship of lyrical drama, which emerged as the dominant genre of European Modernism, and opera, representing a paradigm shift in European thought on the eve of World War One. The musical metaphor of love-death, originating in Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, was adopted widely and transposed into verbal art by the dramatists and prose-writers of Modernism in Eastern and Western Europe. This metaphor or leit-motif is read in the context of the theory of the Freudian death-drive and the emergence of a modern analytic of finitude, which announces a new European cultural paradigm, grounded in identity and difference. A new ‘modern’ sensibility is formed out of these metaphysical elements, which come to expression in the Modernist genre of lyrical drama, in which a synaesthetic relationship is forged between music and the verbal text. A musical motif (love-death) is generalised into desire in the verbal text which it structures through intonation, gesture and the representation of unconscious drives on stage.

Chandler and the American War Writers

War Noir ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 64-91
Author(s):  
Sarah Trott
Keyword(s):  
Detective Fiction ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Lost Generation ◽  
War Fiction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter three considers the relationship between detective fiction and war fiction and the impact of one style upon the other to create a ‘war noir’. Taking examples from renowned World War One novels, it will demonstrate that the same disillusionment and despair prevalent in the work of the renowned Lost Generation is equally prevalent in Chandler’s novels. Reading his novels as a convergence of the war novel and crime fiction, one can reconsider Chandler’s work as a legitimate representation of society and the trauma of war.

scholarly journals The Era of Biomedicine: Science, Medicine, and Public Health in Britain and France after the Second World War

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 441-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane Quirke ◽  
Jean-Paul Gaudillière
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
Biological Knowledge ◽  
World War ◽  
Limited Impact ◽  
Great Transformation ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World

The relationship between medicine and the study of life is as old as medicine itself. Nevertheless, historians have highlighted the great transformation that took place in the nineteenth century when first physiology and then bacteriology became important resources for the classification, diagnosis, and treatment of human diseases. In that period, significant links developed between the sites specializing in biological experimentation (i.e. laboratories) on the one hand, and the places of healing (i.e. hospitals, dispensaries) and public health offices on the other. Together, they helped to fashion modern, professional medicine. However, many historical studies have also argued that this mobilization of biological knowledge exerted a limited impact on medical practice in general, and clinical practice in particular.

Fabricar a memória da violência: imagens do massacre de eldorado dos carajás na arte contemporânea

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Gil Vieira da Costa
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Politics Of Memory ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Complex Mediums ◽  
The Relationship

ResumoEste ensaio pretende investigar as relações entre arte, violência e políticas da memória, por meio da comparação entre obras de arte produzidas a partir do Massacre de Eldorado dos Carajás. Estuda-se a relação entre a criação artística e a produção de imagens memorialistas, analisando de que maneiras a arte contemporânea tem atuado no campo das políticas da memória, constituindo meios complexos às imagens de acontecimentos históricos, assim como meios de reflexão crítica sobre a própria fabricação de tais imagens.AbstractThis essay intends to investigate the relations between art, violence and politics of memory, by comparing artworks produced about the Eldorado dos Carajás Massacre. The relationship between artistic creation and the production of memorialist images is studied, analyzing in what ways contemporary art has acted in the field of politics of memory, constituting complex mediums to the images of historical events, as well as mediums of critical reflection on very fabrication of these images.

Temporalitatea internă a romanului românesc (1844-1932)

Transilvania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 22-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Radu Vancu ◽  
Alex Goldiș ◽  
Ovio Olaru ◽  
Vlad Pojoga ◽  
Teodora Susarenco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Temporal Distribution ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
Contemporary Novel ◽  
The Past ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The present article follows the relationship of the Romanian novelistic output between 1901 and 1932 with time and temporal distribution. Its emphasis falls on the degree of correlation between the time of publication and the time during which the events unfold for each corresponding novel, expressed through a variable coined “distance”. By making use of this variable, the temporal distribution of the novelistic corpus in the article clearly shows that the novelists’ focus gradually shifts towards contemporary events; while during the period between 1900 up until the outbreak of World War One, novelists were inclined to place the events of their works in the past, the War seems to have triggered an acute preoccupation with the immediate present. Lastly, the text touches upon two distinct subgenres of the novel, arisen out of their relationship to time, namely the historical novel and the so-called ‘contemporary novel’.

Karl Barth and Anthropocentric Theology

1978 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 435-447
Author(s):  
Philip C. Almond
Keyword(s):  
Karl Barth ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
World War ◽  
Critical Attitude ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Post War ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
First World

There is no doubt that the writings of Karl Barth give evidence of a critical attitude to the anthropocentric theology of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This critical attitude springs both from the failure of nineteenthcentury theology to make significant inroads into the twentieth century due to the traumatic experience of the first World War, and from Barth's own tlieology as it developed in the post-war years through to the early 1960s. Hence, to expound the relationship between Karl Barth and anthropocentric theology is a two-sided task. On the one hand, his attitude to nineteenthcentury theology may be assessed from his investigations of the theologians of that period. On the other hand, this critical attitude must of necessity be related to and contrasted with his own theological development. In this article, I shall be concerned to examine his attitude to anthropocentric theology in the light of his own developing theology.

The country at a standstill: Yugoslavia and Slovene politics in the 1930s

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-236
Author(s):  
Jure Gašparič
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
World War ◽  
National Life ◽  
Repressive Regime ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Groups

King Alexander's dictatorship in Yugoslavia (proclaimed in January 1929) was an expression of a real political need for consolidation in the country; however, in essence, it was an autocratic and repressive regime. More decisive moves toward a return of democracy did not occur, even later, after the replacement of his regime in June 1935. The political methods in the internal political life followed the pattern from the first half of the 1930s to the very eve of World War II. Such a situation also defined the relationship between the Slovenes and Yugoslavia. Slovene politics continued to look at the state from two angles – a unitary/centralist angle on the one hand and an autonomist/federalist angle on the other. Both camps (as well as other Yugoslav political players), however, failed to create an environment that would enable truly democratic compromises. The state was stuck at a “standstill,” but in spite of all its flaws, in the view of the Slovene political groups it represented the most suitable environment for the political and national life of Slovenes. Any serious political calculations that would go beyond this framework hardly existed.

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