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The young girl from the Ottawa Valley who served as a nurse in North Africa with only a helmet of fresh water a day, the teenage soldier from Fredericton who stole pig swill to survive in a Hong Kong prisoner of war camp, the English woman who survived the sinking of the Athenia to become a war-bride, and an Alberta airman who crashed off the icy coast of Greenland, these are but only four of the thirty compelling personal accounts of war experiences. Many provate photographs from their own albums illustrate these stories, which reflect the world wide aspect of the war from
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World War --- 1914-1918 --- Campaigns --- Belgium --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Guerre, 1914-1918 (Mondiale, 1re) --- Personal narratives, American. --- Récits personnels américains.
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Chacun sait à quel point les témoignages de soldats constituent une mine de renseignements pour l'histoire de la Grande Guerre. Les trois carnets reproduits ici présentent l'originalité d'émaner de combattants des deux camps. Hans Rodewald était allemand, Antoine Bieisse et Fernand Tailhades étaient français. Emportés par l'enthousiasme d'août 1914, les trois fantassins doivent rapidement faire face au concret qui produit un mélange d'excitation, d'angoisse et de compassion. Gravement blessés, tombés au pouvoir de l'adversaire, ils craignent pour leur vie mais sont soignés par des mains qui se révèlent fraternelles. Les trois hommes font l'expérience de l'humanité de ceux qu'ils désignaient jusque là par le terme convenu d'ennemi. Ce livre révèle la complexité et l'ambivalence de la pensée des combattants. Il apporte un nouveau démenti à la thèse simpliste qui veut que la haine de l'ennemi aurait éclipsé tout autre sentiment. Il montre que, sous un vernis de “culture de guerre”, existait aussi, plus profonde, une véritable “culture de paix”.
World War, 1914-1918 --- Première guerre mondiale --- Personal narratives, French --- Personal narratives, German --- Prisoners and prisons --- Récits personnels français --- Récits personnels allemands --- Prisonniers et prisons --- Première guerre mondiale --- Récits personnels français --- Récits personnels allemands --- History --- guerre --- témoignage --- journal
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How did the soldiers in the trenches of the Great War understand and explain battlefield experience, and themselves through that experience? Situated at the intersection of military history and cultural history, The Embattled Self draws on the testimony of French combatants to explore how combatants came to terms with the war. In order to do so, they used a variety of narrative tools at hand-rites of passage, mastery, a character of the soldier as a consenting citizen of the Republic. None of the resulting versions of the story provided a completely consistent narrative, and all raised more questions about the "truth" of experience than they answered. Eventually, a story revolving around tragedy and the soldier as victim came to dominate-even to silence-other types of accounts. In thematic chapters, Leonard V. Smith explains why the novel structured by a specific notion of trauma prevailed by the 1930's. Smith canvasses the vast literature of nonfictional and fictional testimony from French soldiers to understand how and why the "embattled self" changed over time. In the process, he undermines the conventional understanding of the war as tragedy and its soldiers as victims, a view that has dominated both scholarly and popular opinion since the interwar period. The book is important reading not only for traditional historians of warfare but also for scholars in a variety of fields who think critically about trauma and the use of personal testimony in literary and historical studies.
World War, 1914-1918 --- Literature and the war. --- Personal narratives, French. --- Première guerre mondiale --- Récits personnels français --- Littérature et guerre --- Thematology --- French literature --- anno 1910-1919 --- HISTORY --- Western
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World history --- Literature --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1299 --- Jerusalem --- Crusades --- Croisades --- Sources. --- Personal narratives --- Sources --- Récits personnels --- Latin Orient --- Orient latin --- History --- Histoire --- Social conditions --- Récits personnels --- Church history --- Middle Ages --- Chivalry --- East, Latin --- Latin East --- Orient, Latin --- Islamic Empire --- Middle East --- Orient --- Latin Empire, 1204-1261 --- Crusades.
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This is a meditation on memory and on the ways in which memory has operated in the work of writers for whom the Holocaust was a defining event. It is also an exploration of the ways in which fiction and drama have attempted to approach a subject so resistant to the imagination. Beginning with W. G. Sebald, for whom memory and the Holocaust were the roots of a special fascination, Bigsby moves on to consider those writers Sebald himself valued, including Arthur Miller, Anne Frank, Primo Levi and Peter Weiss, and those whose lives crossed in the bleak world of the camps, in fact or fiction. The book offers a chain of memories. It sets witness against fiction, truth against wilful deceit. It asks the question who owns the Holocaust - those who died, those who survived to bear witness, those who appropriated its victims to shape their own necessities.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. --- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --- Memory in literature. --- Autobiographical memory. --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 dans la littérature --- Holocauste, 1939-1945 --- Mémoire dans la littérature --- Mémoire épisodique --- Personal narratives --- History and criticism. --- Récits personnels --- Histoire et critique --- Literature --- World history --- Jewish religion --- anno 1940-1949 --- Memory --- Memory as a theme in literature
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L'ouvrage de Johann Michel, au carrefour de la philosophie et des sciences sociales, vise à élaborer une sociologie du soi à partir de l'herméneutique de Paul Ricœur. La première partie de l'ouvrage se présente comme un essai théorique qui s'intéresse aux catégories particulières de techniques d'interprétations de sujets d'emblée engagés dans une histoire de vie. Le reste de l'ouvrage doit se lire comme une mise à l'épreuve empirique de ce projet théorique. Chaque chapitre compose le « roman vrai » d'une trajectoire biographique au cours de laquelle sont analysés les mises en intrigue de soi et les imaginaires sociaux, culturels et politiques. Les récits de vie portent plus précisément sur l'héritage de la guerre d'Algérie et de la migration algérienne en France. La thèse de l'ouvrage consiste à montrer que cet héritage ne cesse d'être transformé et reconfiguré au cours de l'existence, à la faveur de dispositifs actifs de réappropriation par les nouvelles générations. Les technologies de soi relèvent de cette part active de recomposition qui témoigne de la créativité et de l'inventivité de subjectivations ordinaires confrontées à des injonctions familiales et sociales parfois contradictoires, au « problème » de la « double culture », aux discriminations et aux stigmatisations sociales, au poids d'une guerre qui peine parfois à dire son nom.
Identity (Psychology) --- Hermeneutics --- Identité (Psychologie) --- Herméneutique --- Ricœur, Paul --- Identité (psychologie) --- Herméneutique. --- Histoires de vie. --- Enfants d'immigrés --- Algérie --- Sociologie et philosophie. --- Récits personnels. --- Influence. --- Ricoeur, Paul --- Critique et interprétation. --- Algérie --- Sociology --- sociologie --- herméneutique --- guerre d'Algérie --- rapatriés
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World War, 1914-1918 --- Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 --- Hospitals --- Personal narratives, French. --- Hôpitaux --- Récits personnels français. --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern
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In the midst of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy debate, a gay former soldier offers a firsthand account of his experiences in the Iraq war, capturing the real experience of gay servicemen and servicewomen.
Gay men --- Gay military personnel --- Soldiers --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Homosexuels masculins --- Militaires homosexuels --- Militaires --- Guerre en Irak, 2003-2011 --- Biography --- Biography. --- Personal narratives, American. --- Biographies --- Récits personnels américains --- Lemer, Bronson --- Gay Armed Forces members --- Gay service members --- Gay soldiers --- Gays in military service --- Gays in the Armed Forces --- Gays in the military --- Armed Forces --- Lemer, Bronson.
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The author presents an account of how the fall of France in 1940 affected the lives of ordinary French people, and how it became a defining experience for France in the 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- Refugees --- Campaigns --- 2ème guerre mondiale --- Social aspects --- Personal narratives, French. --- Aspect social --- Récits personnels français --- France --- Paris (France) --- History --- Histoire
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