scholarly journals What defined war memories in Japan during the postwar period and what impact did they have on Japan?

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2016) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Lucinda Fretwell
Keyword(s):  
Postwar Period ◽  
War Memories

King Labor

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-42
Author(s):  
Matthew E. Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
African American ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Plantation Slavery ◽  
Reconstruction Era ◽  
Popular Memory ◽  
War Memories ◽  
One Step

This chapter explores how the popular memory of the antislavery movement and emancipation proved central to Reconstruction era debates over land, labor, and political economy. Freedpeople were the first and most vocal laboring people to employ war memories to appeal for large-scale material redistribution. They anticipated the postwar period as one of revolutionary possibility. Meanwhile, trade unionists and agrarian radicals used cultural politics to frame postwar debates over land and labor as part of an antislavery tradition. They increasingly appropriated the legacy of African American bondage and liberation in order to confront “wage slavery” and articulate designs for “labor emancipation” in which the ruination of plantation slavery was but one step.

Two Modernities: from Elle to Mademoiselle. Women's Magazines in Postwar France

1999 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Weiner
Keyword(s):  
Women's Magazines ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Teenage Girl ◽  
War Memories ◽  
Images Of Women ◽  
The Way

Beginning with its first issue of 1945, Elle magazine was instrumental in changing the way the French saw female domesticity in the postwar period, infusing the domestic space with an aura of glamour and modernity. Newly glamorous female domesticity went hand-in-hand with images of women as voters and professionals, communicating to the magazine's readers that they could ‘have it all’ – but never to the exclusion of their primary identity as mothers and wives. This ultimately conservative postwar version of femininity came to be challenged in the early 1960s by Mademoiselle, a magazine that projected a reader unmarked by war memories and whose relationship to technology and modernity went beyond the home. Yet, Mademoiselle was grooming the fun-loving teenage girl as a consumer who would one day be a wife and mother as well; from one version of modernity to another, feminine destiny remained the same.

Democratic Centralisms—Plural? A Comparative Analysis of Functional Communism in the French and Italian Communist Party Federations of Var and Gorizia, 1956

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-54
Author(s):  
Fiona Haig
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Internal Dynamic ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Internal Organization ◽  
Democratic Centralism ◽  
Pyramidal Model

Democratic centralism was the Leninist-Bolshevik pyramidal model of internal organization in operation in all communist parties for most of the 20th century. Thus far, the question of whether it functioned consistently across the non-ruling parties has not been addressed explicitly or systematically. This article examines the implementation of this essential internal dynamic in a French and an Italian communist party federation in the early postwar period. Drawing on new personal testimonies from more than 50 informants, and inedita archival evidence, this analysis reveals not only similarities but also clear functional disparities between the two cases.

Speaking of the Holocaust

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Keith Kahn-Harris
Keyword(s):  
Future Generations ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Short Article ◽  
The Holocaust

Albert Friedlander’s writings were part of a generational struggle to find a language in which to speak of the experience of the Holocaust. This struggle was, in part, a response to the ‘unspeakability’ of the Holocaust, the silence and denial of its perpetrators. As such, in the postwar period, the perpetrators of the Holocaust also struggled to find the words to speak of what they had done. This short article goes on to speculate on the implications of the unspeakability of the Holocaust and other genocides. It suggests that this unspeakability is beginning to break down as desires are spoken of more openly. As such, it is possible that current and future generations will have to embark on a different struggle to that of Albert Friedlander. While he could count on an assumed moral consensus that the Holocaust was wrong, current and future generations may no longer be able to rely on this assumption.

Epilogue

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
Antebellum Era ◽  
Narrative Device ◽  
The Future

This conclusion explains how American temporalities changed after the war and sketches how expectations and anticipations of the future have alternated as the dominant view in American culture through the twentieth century to today. This chapter also shows how the short war myth, the story that Civil War Americans expected a short, glorious war at the outset, gained currency with the public and consensus among scholars during the postwar period. It contrasts the wartime expectations of individuals with their postwar memories of the war’s beginning to show how the short war myth worked as a tool for sectional reconciliation and a narrative device that dramatized the war by creating an innocent antebellum era or golden age before the cataclysm. It considers why historians still accept the myth and showcases three postwar voices that challenged it.

Maximus

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Byers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Action ◽  
American Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Self ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The One

This concluding chapter charts the continuing significance of the early postwar moment in Olson’s later work, particularly The Maximus Poems. The philosophical and political concerns of the American avant-garde between 1946 and 1951 play out across The Maximus Poems just as they inform later American art practices. The search of the early postwar American independent left for a source of political action rooted in the embodied individual is seen, on the one hand, to have been personified in the figure of Maximus. At the same time, Maximus’s radical ‘practice of the self’ charts a sophisticated alternative to the Enlightenment humanist subject widely critiqued in the United States in the immediate postwar period.

Women, the Civil War, and Reconstruction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Rosen
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Native American Women ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Us ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
Us Civil War

The rapid transformations brought on by the US Civil War and its aftermath touched women’s lives in contradictory ways. The disruption caused by war and the destruction of slavery opened up space, and at times created the necessity, for radically new roles for women that challenged antebellum gender norms and racial and class hierarchies. This essay examines the wartime and postwar experiences primarily of black and white but also Native American women. In this period, many women faced new circumstances that inspired them to confront power in novel ways—by, for instance, fleeing slavery, petitioning governors, organizing bread riots, participating in political parades, or protesting segregation. The chapter also explores political violence in the postwar period that affected women differently across class, race, and region and that eventually helped to shut down the radical potential of the era.

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