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War and Literature: Looking Back on 20th Century Armed Conflicts
This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since the First World War has changed war itself, rendering meaningless the very vocabulary of war in terms such as "battle", "front", "non-combatant", "open city" and "hero", new words, new approaches, new theories and new texts had to be invented. The enemy became invisible: Submarines, tanks, mines, gas, long-range artillery, and airplanes made this war different from all the other that came before. A hundred years after the beginning of this terrible war, it is now time to recall different representations of the armed conflicts of the 20th century. The articles in this collection analyze representations of the Canudos Civil War in Brazil, the First World War, the Second World War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the colonial wars in Africa, and the war in Afghanistan, aiming to understand how war and the telling of war have changed during the most murderous hundred years in the history of mankind.
Revisiting 20th Century Wars
The collection at hand is a subjective, but representative selection of articles in German and English on the representation of bellicose acts in modern times. The wide range of wars treated in these essays begins with the Canudos Civil War in the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1896-97. The various articles include new perceptions and interpretations of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, the Holocaust, the Second World War, the Korean War, the wars in the former Portuguese colonies of Africa, and the Balkan Wars of the last decade of the 20th century, and close with the current war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001. The wars discussed, although having different origins, su...
Futebol, linguagem, artes, cultura e lazer
"Futebol, linguagem, artes, cultura e lazer é resultante das conferências proferidas durante o I Simpósio Internacional Futebol, Linguagem, Artes, Cultura e Lazer (BH/MG, 2013). Ambos foram organizados pelos professores Elcio Cornelsen, Günther Augustin e Silvio Ricardo da Silva, integrantes de dois dos principais núcleos brasileiros de pesquisa sobre futebol, GEFuT e FULIA (UFMG). Esta publicação explora assuntos variados, devido ao perfil e à atuação transdisciplinares dos pesquisadores. Em sua maioria, eles convergem para o período do surgimento do futebol até os anos 1950. Ou seja, os ensaios exploram a aparição de uma nova cultura do corpo atrelada às imposições contemporâneas, especialmente as advindas das expansões citadinas, da luz elétrica, das inovações estéticas modernistas, das organizações de trabalho ou das configurações identitárias e de poder, ou ainda da preservação da memória dos jogadores. Uma obra indispensável no âmbito dos estudos futebolísticos."
FUTEBOL, LINGUAGEM, ARTES, CULTURA E LAZER
Esta obra aborda o período do surgimento do futebol até os anos 1950. Os ensaios exploram a aparição de uma nova cultura do corpo atrelada às imposições contemporâneas, especialmente as advindas das expansões citadinas, da luz elétrica, das inovações estéticas modernistas, das organizações de trabalho ou das configurações identitárias e de poder, ou ainda da preservação da memória dos jogadores.
Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945
This study analyses how immigrant and ethnic-minority writers have challenged the understanding of certain national literatures and have markedly changed them. In other national contexts, ideologies and institutions have contained the challenge these writers pose to national literatures. Case studies of the emergence and recognition of immigrant and ethnic-minority writing come from fourteen national contexts. These include classical immigration countries, such as Canada and the United States, countries where immigration accelerated and entered public debate after World War II, such as the United Kingdom, France and Germany, as well as countries rarely discussed in this context, such as Brazil and Japan. Finally, this study uses these individual analyses to discuss this writing as an international phenomenon. Sandra R.G. Almeida, Maria Zilda F. Cury, Sarah De Mul, Sneja Gunew, Dave Gunning, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Martina Kamm, Liesbeth Minnaard, Maria Oikonomou, Wenche Ommundsen, Marie Orton, Laura Reeck, Daniel Rothenbühler, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Wiebke Sievers, Bettina Spoerri, Christl Verduyn, Sandra Vlasta.
Em torno da imagem e da memória
"Os diversos ensaios que compõem o presente volume, 'Em torno da imagem e da memória', organizado por Elcio Cornelsen, Elisa Amorim e Gonzalo Leiva Quijada, transitam entre diversas expressões artísticas como a pintura, o cinema, a literatura, o desenho, a colagem e, sobretudo, a fotografia, seja enquanto retrato, registro documental, ou enquanto refotografia, fotopintura, fotografia pós-morte e pictorialismo. Assim, nos textos que procuram estabelecer relações entre imagem e memória na arte contemporânea, o que se observa predominantemente é o caráter híbrido da imagem apresentada pelos artistas, o seu caráter intermediático, que se configura na fronteira entre as diversas lin...
"There It Is": Narratives of the Vietnam War
This book provides a critical survey of the literature on the Vietnam War and is intended both for academic and general readers. Earlier works of this kind constantly recycled criticism of a half-dozen of the same works. In this study, the aim was to discuss a much greater number of works, including a few that have never been discussed. To appeal to non-academic readers, Lit-Crit jargon was kept to a minimum, and parallels with earlier works of war literature, especially those of the two world wars, were established.
Sartre, Jews, and the Other
The starting point for this compilation is the wish to rethink the concept of antisemitism, race and gender in light of Sartre’s pioneering Réflexions sur la Question Juive seventy years after its publication. The book gathers texts by prestigious scholars from different disciplines in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, with the objective or revisiting this work locating it within the setting of two other pioneering – and we argue, related – publications, namely Simone De Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe of 1949 and Franz Fanon’s Peau noire et masques blancs of 1952. This particular and original standpoint sheds new light on the different meanings and political functions of the concept of antisemitism in a political and historical context marked by the post-modern concepts of multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism.
Latin American Literature in Transition 1930–1980: Volume 4
Latin American Literature in Transition 1930-1980 explores the literary landscape of the mid-twentieth-century and the texts that were produced during that period. It takes four core areas of thematic and conceptual focus – solidarity, aesthetics and innovation, war, revolution and dictatorship, metropolis and ruins – and employs them to explore the complexity, heterogeneity and hybridity of form, genre, subject matter and discipline that characterised literature from the period. In doing so, it uncovers the points of transition, connection, contradiction, and tension that shaped the work of many canonical and non-canonical authors. It illuminates the conversations between genres, literary movements, disciplines and modes of representation that underpin writing form this period. Lastly, by focusing on canon and beyond, the volume visibilizes the aesthetics, poetics, politics, and social projects of writing, incorporating established writers, but also writers whose work is yet to be examined in all its complexity.
Memórias da Segunda Guerra Mundial
Este livro é resultado de trabalhos realizados por pesquisadores do Núcleo de Estudos de Guerra e Literatura (NEGUE), da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), e por outros pesquisadores especialmente convidados a colaborarem com esta publicação. A ideia inicial surgiu como consequência da II Jornada do NEGUE, realizada em maio de 2015, em Belo Horizonte, com o objetivo de comemorar os 70 anos do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial em 1945. Nesta coletânea, foram reunidos ensaios que analisam as memórias da Segunda Guerra Mundial, tratando-se, por um lado, de textos de testemunhos que presenciaram os horrores dos combates, do holocausto ou dos bombardeios aéreos, e, por outro lado, a ficcionalização posterior dessas vivências que foram marcantes para toda a vida. Também foi abordada aqui a repercussão dessas memórias no cinema a nas artes plásticas, uma vez que elas foram fonte inspiradora para importantes cineastas e artistas plásticos.
