War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century (eBook, PDF)

Global Conflicts
Redaktion: Barkhof, Sandra; Smith, Angela K.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

World War I and World War II brought displacement to civilizations on an unprecedented scale. Displacements were geographical, cultural, and psychological; based on nationality, sex or age. They produced an astonishing range of human experience, recorded by the participants in different ways. This collection unites historians and literary scholars in exploring this displacement, drawing on a wealth of primary source materials and resources, including archives from across the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317961864
• Artikelnr.: 40824412

Autorenporträt

Sandra Barkhof is a Lecturer at Plymouth University. Angela K. Smith is an Associate Professor (Reader) at Plymouth University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The No Man's Land of Displacement Angela K. Smith and Sandra
Barkhof Part 1: Military Displacement 1. Displacement and the Combat
Soldier: Poetic Interpretations Angela K. Smith 2. The French Resister in
the Maghreb: French North Africa and the Formation of the Forces Aériennes
Françaises Libres, 1940-41 G.H. Bennett 3. The Other Side of the Poison
Cloud: Canadian Soldiers as English Patients After the First Gas Attacks
Martin Goodman 4. Diluting Displacement: Letters from Captivity Oliver
Wilkinson 5. A "Positive" Displacement?: Italian PoW in World War Two
Britain Marco Giudici 6. Exploitation of Displaced European Refugees and
Axis Prisoners of War in Britain, 1939-49 J.M. Goodchild 7. A Period in
Limbo: Placing People and Punctuation in E. E. Cummings's The Enormous
Room. Hazel Hutchison Part 2: Civilian Displacement 8. Renegotiating the
Yellow Peril: Cultural and Physical Displacement in the German Colony in
China During the First World War Sandra Barkhof 9. "His Dearest Property":
Women, Nation and Displacement in Storm Jameson's Cloudless May. Katherine
Cooper 10. "Everything's in a Terrible Mess": Displacement in the Wartime
Fictions of Elsa Triolet and Irene Nemirovsky Krista Cowman 11. "When Most
Relief Workers Had Never Heard of Freud": UNRRA in the French Zone of
Occupation in Germany, 1945-1947 Laure Humbert 12. Fading Childhood
Memories of World War II Displacement: Appropriation, Non-Appropriation and
Misappropriation Iris Guske and Niklas Guske 13. Prisoners of the Past?:
German Refugee Associations Today Karl Cordell