Beckett's Molloy, the Promise of Youth, and the Postwar

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-407
Author(s):  
Stephen Ross
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Family Dynamics ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Historical Transition

This paper argues that Samuel Beckett's Molloy charts the historical transition of the postwar moment in generational terms – terms that themselves had real historical significance in the years immediately following the Allied victory in World War II – ultimately, and uncharacteristically, advancing a youthful figure of promise in young Jacques Moran, Jr. Though Beckett is much more commonly read as an allegorist of existential ambivalence – if not despair – I contend that his first postwar novel must properly be understood as staging history in its confused, agonistic, and frustrating family dynamics. Beckett's rendering of authority, history, and hierarchy in terms of perversion, queerness, and sterility ultimately preserves a futurity centred not precisely on the child per se, but on the emergent figure of the adolescent – the teenager, even, I will venture to claim –  avant la lettre: Jacques Moran, Jr.

After Cloven Tongues of Fire: Ecumenical Protestantism and the Modern American Encounter with Diversity

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Hollinger
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
First Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Protestant Churches ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Numbers Game ◽  
Mainline Protestant

This chapter addresses the question of why “mainline” Protestant churches experienced a dramatic loss of numbers from the mid-1960s through the early twenty-first century, while the evangelical churches grew. It argues that evangelicals triumphed in the numbers game by continuing to espouse several ideas about race, gender, sexuality, nationality, and divinity that remained popular with the white public when these same ideas were abandoned by leaders of the mainline, ecumenical churches as no longer defensible. The chapter also considers the historical significance of ecumenical Protestantism for U.S. history since World War II. It argues that it facilitated an engagement with many aspects of a diverse modernity that millions of Americans would not have achieved without the support and guidance of the ecumenical churches.

scholarly journals The Battle of Stalingrad in the focus of western historiography

2013 ◽  
pp. 95-106
Author(s):  
A. A. Paderin
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Western Historiography

This article is about: The Battle of Stalingrad is drastic turning point in World War II. The Battle of Stalingrad is discussed by western historians in markedly different ways. Methods and techniques of perversion the historical significance of the Battle of Stalingrad. Different ways to expose misrepresentation of crucial events and results of the Battle of Stalingrad.

How Did This Happen?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Tipping Point ◽  
World War ◽  
Campaign Strategy ◽  
Per Se ◽  
American Society ◽  
Media Experience

Chapter 1 summarizes the book’s core argument—that Donald Trump’s rise to the presidency did not occur so much from the contingencies of the election per se (e.g. his campaign strategy, Russian meddling, Hillary Clinton’s emails, FBI director James Comey’s investigation, Trump’s media experience as a TV celebrity, etc.) but from deep and long-standing trends in American Society that stretched back decades. These economic, racial, ideological, and political trends were triggered by the demise of America’s Golden Age of prosperity immediately following World War II. They reached a tipping point by the time Barack Obama was elected president. Obama’s election and administration pushed dissatisfaction over the edge. Trump capitalized on it to win the presidency.

Continuous Existence of Historic Ship Museums

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 62-84
Author(s):  
Philip R. Byrd
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
New Method ◽  
World War ◽  
National Register ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Maritime Museum

Keeping museum practices strictly within the confines of the National Register of Historic Places’ period of historical significance guidelines is not sustainable for many museum ships. By defining and using continuous existence, SS John W. Brown is creating a new method of interpretation, marketing, preservation, and programming that tells a larger story. This paper puts SS John W. Brown, a Liberty ship from World War II, operational vessel, and maritime museum, into context by surveying ships on the National Register of Historic Places. As World War II fades from public memory and popular culture, a new methodology is required.

CONCLUSION: ‘BETWEEN RESISTANCE AND RETREAT’

2004 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 228-238
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Press ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Postponement

On returning from his visit to Germany and Czechoslovakia from 6 to 15 August 1938, Lord Allen wrote that he had engaged in ‘hours and hours of talk and NOTHING else whatever’. Could the same assessment also be true of the All Souls Foreign Affairs Group? The group, in fact, never reconvened after the postponement notice sent out on 4 July 1938. What then can be asserted with regard to the impact and historical significance of the All Souls Foreign Affairs Group? Indeed, what was its ‘true character and influence’? Although its history was documented in the papers accumulated during the nine meetings from 18 December 1937 to 15 May 1938, what subsequent role did the more prominent members play in the period leading up to the outbreak of World War II? In reality, the group served precisely the purposes designed by Salter and Allen, essentially acting as a ‘Brains Trust’. The discussions helped the individual members, with diverse experience and with divergent views, to clarify their positions on foreign and domestic policy. They then spoke, wrote publicly, and lobbied the press and the Foreign Office, confident that the issues had been analysed by some of the best elite minds of the period.

scholarly journals PEACE EDUCATION: LESSONS FROM POST-WAR JAPAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 290-296
Author(s):  
Nirmali Wijegoonawardana
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Constructive Approach ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Impact

The experience of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing during World War II is the main feature of Peace Education in Japan. The historical significance of nuclear bombing is unique to Japan. Therefore, this paper aims to understand the impact of constructive approaches in a post-war traumatized society on Peace Education. The research seeks to explore Peace Education as being the most relevant and constructive approach for building a peaceful society. Therefore, this study will explore lessons from post-war Japan. This study has primarily employed qualitative methods, with simple quantitative methods such as frequency and spatial analysis to investigate the study. The findings are expected to contribute towards the use of education to build a peaceful society. This research will also attempt to inculcate a positive attitude towards moral values.

scholarly journals Some Important Milestones in the Field of Blood Clotting

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell F. Doolittle
Keyword(s):  
Innate Immunity ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Vitamin K ◽  
Blood Clotting ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
World War ◽  
Clotting Factors ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The 1960S

Several different kinds of ‘milestone' in the field of blood coagulation are described from the middle decades of the 20th century. Although viewed from the standpoint of clotting per se, attention is also given to implications for innate immunity. The first milestone considered is the protracted saga of clotting dependence on vitamin K, an adventure that spanned more than five decades beginning in the 1920s. The second has to do with the discovery of a half-dozen ‘new' clotting factors during the period immediately following World War II. A third pursues a narrower focus and examines the once mysterious transformation of fibrinogen into fibrin. Finally, the clinical treatment of classical hemophilia had a remarkable turning point in the 1960s as the result of simple but sensible measures.

scholarly journals Intertextual Inscription of Diasporic Identity in Ondaatje's The English Patient

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (II) ◽  
pp. 403-408
Author(s):  
Qasim Shafiq ◽  
Mazhar Hayat ◽  
Ali Usman Saleem
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Diasporic Identity ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Last Of The Mohicans

hrough Julia Kristiva's intertextuality, this study explores the diasporic version of identity in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient - the text that is based on Ondaatje's inspiration from other literary and non-literary texts: Rudyard Kipling's Kim, Herodotus' The History, James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans and the story of Gyges and the Queen. This theoretical inscription locates the source of the expression of the meaning of the text: either the author or the text per se. It argues the intertextual narration of Ondaatje, a Sri Lankan living in Canada, about the fragmented identities of the diasporas in the post-World War II milieu. This intertextual approach highlights the politics working behind the location of the characters, their (dis)placement from/to their origin and their identity in the post-WWII time. The framing of these intertextual discourses helps understand the contexts of diaspora characters as well as diaspora writers.

“History Could Save Verdugo Hills Golf Course”

2016 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-341
Author(s):  
Jean-Paul R. deGuzman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Golf Course ◽  
World War ◽  
Core Group ◽  
The Public ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The Core

This study demonstrates how the campaign to win Historic Cultural Monument status for the site of a World War II enemy-alien detention station was able to achieve its goal by working with unlikely allies with different agendas. The goal of the core group, the Tuna Canyon Detention Station or TCDS Coalition, was monument status to bring greater attention to the injustices of wartime prejudice and serve as a powerful reminder to ensure such actions would not occur again. The coalition succeeded in educating the public about the site’s historical significance.

Problems of the history of World War II in the interpretation of modern Chinese historians

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (01) ◽  
pp. 260-270
Author(s):  
Alexey Lubkov ◽  
Mikhail Novikov
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic

The publication examines the approaches of modern Chinese historians to determining the role of China in World War II, assessing the contribution of the Republic of China to the victory over Japan, the problem of localizing the place and date of the beginning of World War II, clarifying the nature, essence of the Chinese anti-Japanese war and its historical significance.

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