scholarly journals Conflicting attitudes to the war in Europe in women’s diaries from the Great War

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-66
Author(s):  
Costel Coroban
Keyword(s):  
Equal Treatment ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Women’S Rights ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Women's Diaries ◽  
The Way

This paper discusses the change in women’s mentality towards the concept of war and their own role in it according to autobiographical sources such as was journals, diaries, letters or autobiographical novels authored by women who were present at the front during the Great War. The primary sources quoted in this analysis include letters and diaries from nurses who worked in Dr. Elsie Inglis’s Scottish Women’s Hospitals unit as well as the “testament” of Vera Mary Brittain, famous English Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse and writer and women’s rights activist. Among the secondary sources employed in the analysis are the seminal works of Christine E. Hallett, Maxine Alterio, Santanu Das, Eric J. Leed and Claire M. Tylee. Before arriving at a conclusion, the paper highlights important changes in women’s discourse towards the war as well as the way in which such changes were supported by the novel situation in which women found themselves, namely as active participants at the front, and their aspirations towards equal rights and equal treatment.

scholarly journals Historic 7th March Speech of Bangabandhu: Democracy and Civility in Leadership

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-40
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The People ◽  
The Right ◽  
Or Organization ◽  
The Great War

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is the name that the Bengali nation remembers and cheers, who inspired millions with his leadership. His speech of 7th March 1971 electrified the nation and set the tone for the great war of liberation. His speech has manifested the belief in freedom and equality between people and his enthusiastic courtesy and warmth in guiding the people to their destined future. Democracy is a situation, system or organization in which everyone has equal rights and opportunities. It is the belief that everyone in the country has the right to express their opinion and can help in making decisions. And civility is defined as civilized conduct or the quality of being polite. The objective of this research is to highlight the fact that how the Father of the Bengali Nation, Bangabandhu had shown civility and put importance on democracy in his 7th March speech. These two most important things, emphasized in his speech are the reasons behind Bangabandhu being loved and adored by the people. His genuine devotion and affection for his people were clearly cognized through his speech of 7th March. This qualitative research includes data collected from historical sources. Newspapers, government files (archival sources), and interviews are the primary sources used in this research. And books and articles published in different journals are used as secondary sources.

From Wars to the Great War: A Hero Is Born

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
Female Friend ◽  
Personal Letter ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Way

This chapter looks at Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's quest for heroism. As he expressed it in a personal letter to a female friend, he had “grand desires” to render extraordinary services to his homeland. Circumstances, however, were not yet favorable to the realization of that ambition. Up until the Great War, he remained an obscure figure little known outside the circle of young Committee of Union and Progress's (CUP) officers. The German-inspired reorganization of the Ottoman military on the eve of the Great War paved the way for Mustafa Kemal's ascendance. Like many of his colleagues, he agreed with Colmar von der Goltz's opinion that “to make war means to attack.” Mustafa Kemal maintained that only nations inspired by the Japanese attack code of “kōgeki seishin” (aggressive spirit) could carry out successful offensive wars.

The Nature and Legacy of British Imperial Internment

2020 ◽  
pp. 303-314
Author(s):  
Stefan Manz ◽  
Panikos Panayi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
British Empire ◽  
First Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Way

This chapter begins by highlighting the main findings of the book, including the globalization of internment by the Empire during the Great War and the consequences for individuals and their families, but also the fact that Britain treated those it had incarcerated in a humane way. The chapter examines the return to Germany, its consequences for individuals, and the way in which the German authorities dealt with the former residents of the British Empire. These people, who may not have seen their homeland for decades, made efforts to preserve the memory of their experiences, along with former civilian and military prisoners who came from other states at war with Germany. While the memory of internment may have survived into the interwar years, it disappeared in the second half of the twentieth century, but came back to life in the early twenty-first century, inspired by the centenary of the Great War.

The Great War, Independence, and Latvian Literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4 (463)) ◽  
pp. 9-21
Author(s):  
Benedikts Kalnačs
Keyword(s):  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Nation States ◽  
History Of ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Written Sources

The article focuses on the representation of the year 1918 in Latvian literature. On November 18, the independent Republic of Latvia was proclaimed, and in the years to come international recognition of the state’s sovereignty followed. In retrospect, this event stimulated a number of salutary descriptions and interpretations and certainly provides a milestone in the history of the Latvian nation. It is, however, also important to discuss the proclamation of independence in the context of the Great War that brought a lot of suffering to the inhabitants of Latvia. Therefore, a critical evaluation of the events preceding the year 1918 is certainly worthy of discussion. The article first sketches the historical and geopolitical contexts of the period immediately before and during the Great War as well as the changed situation in its aftermath. This introduction is followed by a discussion of the novel 18 (2014) by the contemporary Latvian author Pauls Bankovskis (b. 1973) that provides a critical retrospective of the events leading to the proclamation of the nation state from a twenty-first century perspective. Bankovskis employs an intertextual approach, engaging with a number of earlier publications dealing with the same topic. Among the authors included are Anna Brigadere, Aleksandrs Grīns, Sergejs Staprāns, Mariss Vētra, and others. The paper contextualizes the contribution of these writers within the larger historical picture of the Great War and the formation of the nation states and speculates on the contemporary relevance of the representation of direct experience, and the use of written sources related to these events.

scholarly journals The Impact of World War I on Middle East “Arabs” in Awwad’s “Al-Raghif”: A Cultural Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-36
Author(s):  
Lateef Wisam Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
World War I ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
World War ◽  
War Narrative ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Great War

Abstract My paper will explore the genre of war narrative from a cultural perspective, namely the impact of the Great War on Arabs in the novel Al-Raghif (The Loaf’) in 1939 by the Lebanese novelist Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad, as it is the first Arabic novel which is totally concerned with WWI and its longlasting consequences: hunger, despair and the elusive promise of freedom to Arabs.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Roessler ◽  
Harry Verhoeven
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Democratic Republic ◽  
Great War ◽  
African History ◽  
World War ◽  
Turn On ◽  
Republic Of The Congo ◽  
Central Argument ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Way

Chapter one begins with a critical juncture in African history—the expulsion of the Rwandan Patriotic Front from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in July 1998. Building on this vignette, it motivates the book with a puzzle: fifteen months after overthrowing one of Africa’s longest serving dictators, Mobutu Sese Seko, why did the revolutionaries and their regional allies turn on each other, ushering in the deadliest conflict since World War II? It then lays out the book’s central argument: that the seeds of Africa’s Great War were sown in the struggle against Mobutu—the way the revolution came together, the way it was organized and, paradoxically, the very way it succeeded. While the collapse of the Zairian state and the Rwandan genocide were important antecedents to the Great War, Why Comrades Go to War argues these factors mattered primarily in the way they shaped the organization and structure of the anti-Mobutu revolution. The penultimate sections of the chapter summarize the book's approach and contributions.

Hall, Radclyffe (1880–1943)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Gunn
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Identity ◽  
Great War ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Bloomsbury Group ◽  
Radclyffe Hall ◽  
King's College ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Well Of Loneliness

Radclyffe Hall was a British novelist, poet, and lyricist. A contemporary of the Bloomsbury Group and proponent of Havelock Ellis's sexological theories, Hall is best known for the ground-breaking novel of sexual inversion, The Well of Loneliness (1928). The novel was the center of a landmark obscenity trial, and has continued to attract controversy. Its depiction of inversion has been both lauded and criticized by feminist, queer, and trans theorists. Hall was born Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe-Hall on August 12, 1880 to wealthy parents who divorced in 1883. She briefly attended King's College London and spent a year studying in Germany. In 1912 Hall converted to Catholicism with her partner at the time, the singer Mabel Batten. At Batten’s request, Hall did not serve in the women’s ambulance corps during the Great War (Baker). However, a number of Hall’s fictional characters find autonomy and sexual identity through their war service.

The Other West End

2020 ◽  
pp. 301-316
Author(s):  
Rohan McWilliam
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
The Other ◽  
Great War ◽  
The West ◽  
The Great War ◽  
The Way

This chapter provides a conclusion to the book. It shows that by 1900 the West End functioned as the heart of empire. This was evident in the Mafeking celebrations but also in the way West End shows helped explain the empire to the British. The conservatism of West End culture provided a backdrop for popular imperialism. Whilst the book has emphasized the West End as the source of a conservative consensus, it ends by drawing on the experience of working-class people to show how its opulence could be the source of resentment and conflict. The chapter discusses the Blood Sunday riots which took place in the pleasure district and ends with the Suffragettes window smashing campaign where women attacked an area that was built to attract them. On the eve of the Great War, the West End served as a magnet for protest and pleasure.

The Great War in the Book Ithaca and Comments by Miloš Crnjanski

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Milisav Savić
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World War ◽  
World War One ◽  
The Great War

Crnjanski’s Ithaca and Comment, published forty years after the collection of poems about World War One entitled Lyrics of Ithaca are considered as a fragmented autobiographical novel about the poet's participation in the Great War.Although he found himself at the front, Crnjanski rarely describes battles, even less cruelties of war. He is the narrator of the war's echo. Both the poetic and prosaic story is linked by an idea about the meaninglessness of war. Crnjanski's anti-war stance in Ithaca is also present in the novel Diary About Čarnojević - Crnjanski's ‘war novel’. Ithaca and Comments is the first Serbian postmodern book which banishes borders between genres.

War, Memory, and Politics: The Fate of the Film All Quiet on the Western Front

1980 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Modris Eksteins
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Commercial Exploitation ◽  
Accurate Representation ◽  
War Memory ◽  
Western Front ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
War Experience ◽  
The Great War

Within months of its publication in January 1929 Erich Maria Remarque's novel All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues) was the world's best-selling book. It provoked a feverish controversy between those who claimed that it was an accurate representation of the war experience of 1914–18, portraying the utter futility of war, and those who denounced it as propaganda and an irreverent commercial exploitation of the Great War. Ironically, despite the intended focus of this heated debate, both the novel and the response which it elicited were more an emotional expression of postwar disillusionment and distress than a contribution to the understanding of the actual war experience.

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