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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"War stories"”.
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Gender, Community and the Memory of the Second World War Occupation of the Channel Islands
… the construction of frames of Second World War memory in the post-occupation Channel Islands, and considers the impact of gender on both this memory-making process and the resulting popular representations of their shared past. It first explores the gendered tensions and fractures of the …
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Cease Fire: One Woman's Search for Self in a Culture of War
<p>Cease Fire is a war story told from one woman’s perspective. It’s about a farm girl and her battles fought as young soldier serving on a remote nuke site during the Cold War. It’s the interpretations of lived experiences, highs and lows of a military career fused with family life, and spanning …
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The Manila-Chattanooga Express: A collection of stories (Original writing)
This collection of eleven short stories explores relationships within an American family living in the Philippines. The father, called "Uncle Chick" throughout, is a central figure and many of the events and characters are defined by his presence or through their interactions with him. The most …
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Mediating War in Early Modern German Prose
… two hundred years before German authors were aware of its social and aesthetic implications. When early modern people discussed gunpowder warfare in texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they were astonished by its ability to destroy people, places, and things, as well as an …
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Going by the moon and the stars: Stories of two Russian Mennonite women
The stories of women's religious lives are essential to understanding religion. This thesis records and interprets two Russian Mennonite women's religious lives, using methods of feminist ethnography. The first chapter is a video which presents Agatha Janzen and Katja Enns talking about their …
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Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History From World War Ii Through the Iraq War
… children, a form of escape.</p><p>As World War II began, however, comic books became an integral part of war propaganda as well providing information and education for both children and adults. This dissertation looks at how specific comic books of the war genre have been used to display …
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"Friends and foes on the battlefield": A study of Chinese and U.S. youth literature about the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
In order to understand how postwar generations’ understanding of the history of World War II has been shaped by the information sources made available to them, this dissertation examines the representation of the Sino-Japanese War (1937-45)—fought between Imperial Japan and China, with U.S. as the …
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Against Infinite Grief: Mourning and Speculative Invention in Postbellum American Literature
… shape in the aftermath of the American Civil War, a time in which profound changes to material practices associated with death affected the religious structure of beliefs pertaining to consolation and the afterlife. In a short term historical context, these changes reflected the accelerated …
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An uneasy legacy: Vietnam veterans and Australian society
The Vietnam War is remembered more for the controversy than the war itself. This has contributed to the stereotyping of the war and those who fought in it. War is always political in nature, but the politics of the Vietnam War provided a series of distinctive complications that heralded a …
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Empathy, Ethics, and Justice in Children's War Literature
… are created and communicated in children’s war literature. Due to the divisive nature of war literature, the basis of this thesis lies on the in- and outgroup theory of empathy, according to which the extend of our empathy is strongly tied to who we identify as “like us” (ingroup) or “unlike …
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“For you, Tommy, the War is Over… Or is it?” British War Comics 1945 to 1985
British War Comics from 1945-1985, with their representation of warfare and Allied and enemy combatants, broadly reflect changing British social attitudes over this 40-year period and constitute a unique record within the corpus of popular culture that has not been subject to critical examination. …
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'Tense Pasts, Present Tensions': Postcolonial Memoryscapes and the Memorialisation of the Second World War in Perak, Malaysia
… thesis is concerned with how the Second World War is memorialised in Perak, Malaysia. It considers memoryscapes (or memory practices and sites) within the state dedicated to the war, established not only by state agencies but also grassroots actors. In terms of findings, the thesis first …
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Escape in Thurber : from delight to delirium
… periods of American humor: pre- and post-World War II. Pre-war humor is characterized by a debunking of traditional values: the sanctity of women and marriage, patriotism, hero worship, and the supremacy of common sense. The hero of this era is the victim, the slightly neurotic man who does not …
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Branding History: Literature-to-Screen Adaptation and the Cultural Memory of China’s Second World War
… China’s experiences of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945) into various media, including films, TV series, video games, and museums. It explores how these different media influence and adapt from each other, shaping China’s cultural memory of the war. Covering screen-based cultural …