The Second World War in the Twenty-First-Century Museum: From Narrative, Memory, and Experience to Experientiality. By Stephan Jaeger. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. xiv + 354 pages + 30 color images. $99.99 / €86,95 hardcover, e-book (open-access).

Monatshefte ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 113 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-723
Author(s):  
Dora Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Color Images ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Second World

Manzoni’s Persistence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan White
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lasting Effect ◽  
Italian Culture ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Second World

On what terms are we in the twenty-first century best able to share in and appreciate what Manzoni himself bequeathed? Manzoni’s lasting effect upon Italian culture has been well studied in the past. The older tradition of generous tribute was followed by accounts of Manzoni’s writing that were well ‘this side idolatry’, in the criticism of Benedetto Croce as well as in a brief but suggestive comment by Antonio Gramsci. While all such earlier tributes and criticism still provide us with guidelines for enquiry, we need to take further soundings, tracking forward in cultural consciousness from the Second World War into our own times. What is Manzoni’s present and potential future standing, not merely in Italian culture, but as a ‘world’ author? This chapter argues that in his novel and certain other works Manzoni has left much that is still of compelling relevance to troubled times.

scholarly journals The Oxford History of the Novel in English

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
World War ◽  
History Of The Novel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Second World

This book offers an account on the last eight decades of British and Irish prose fiction. It begins during the Second World War, when novel production fell by more than a third, and ends at a time when new technologies have made possible the publication of an unprecedented number of fiction titles and have changed completely the relationship between authors, publishers, the novel, and the reader. The chapters look at the impact of global warfare on the novel from the Second World War to the Cold War to the twenty-first century; the reflexive continuities of late modernism; the influence of film and television on the novel form; mobile and fluid connections between sexuality, gender, and different periods of women’s writing; a broad range of migrant and ethnic fictions; and the continuities and discontinuities of prose fiction in different regional, national, class, and global contexts. Across the volume there is a blurring of the boundary between genre fiction and literary fiction, as the literary thinking of the period is traced in the spy novel, the children’s novel, the historical novel, the serial novel, shorter fiction, the science fiction novel, and the comic novel. The final chapters of the volume explore the relationship of twenty-first century fiction to post-war culture, and show how this new fiction both emerges from the history of the novel, and prefigures the novel to come.

Ghetto and Suburb

Migrant City ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 28-56
Author(s):  
Panikos Panayi
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Victorian Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
East End ◽  
Second World

This chapter examines patterns of migrant settlement in London. The visibility of migrants in London often became associated with concentration in what contemporary observers often essentially regarded as ghettoes — from the Irish ‘rookery’ in St Giles during the eighteenth century to the Jewish East End by the late Victorian period to the ‘coloured quarter’ immediately after the end of the Second World War, focused especially upon the East End, but increasingly moving to other parts of the capital, including South London, especially around Brixton. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the ethnic concentrations which had characterized the history of London became a feature of the entire metropolis, as a patchwork of ethnic concentrations developed. This apparent universalization of settlement based upon ethnic lines reflected the increasing numbers of migrants moving to London, as well as the growing diversification of these newcomers. Ghettoization, to the extent that it exists, offers just one way of understanding the living patterns of migrant populations in London.

What Does ‘Vichy’ Mean Now?

2016 ◽  
pp. 126-143
Author(s):  
Richard J. Golsan
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Second World

‘What does ‘Vichy’ Mean Now?’, written by Richard J. Golsan, is the first essay in the section, ‘The Second World War and Vichy: Present Perspectives’, and offers an analysis of the changing signification of Vichy in the twenty-first-century imaginary. In his exploration of the Vichy period, Golsan navigates between past and present, bridging contemporary concerns and their origins. Combining a rigorous assessment of political and cultural debates, recent French laws, and new fiction, Golsan contends that the memory of Vichy has become dangerously allegorized, ‘ossified’, and ‘unmoored from historical realities.’

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