This article is a review of The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home (2019) by Heath Hardage Lee. The book presents a popular history of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, an organisation that advocated for the rights of American prisoners of war captured by North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
In 1841, Wacław Jabłonowski, in a review of Juliusz Słowacki’s Beniowski, depicted in the poet a fiery rain which would cleanse the nation of “disgusting growths of weepy Romanticism”. The paper presents an ironic play with the motif of tears in the poem, which is, above all, a play with literary conventions. An example of farewell love letters flooded with tears is regarded not only in the context of the poet’s distance from sentimental and romantic affects (the issue of authenticity and artificiality) or from literary styles, but also in the context of the imagological constructs of—real or projected—Polish identity as well as reactions to the loss of independence. Juxtaposing Beniowski with Byron’s Don Juan, the paper shows how Słowacki overcomes irony and moves towards mysticism.
Artykuł jest recenzją książki The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring their Husbands Home (2019) autorstwa Heath Hardage Lee. Książka przedstawia historię popularną Narodowej Ligi Rodzin Amerykańskich Więźniów i Zaginionych w Azji Południowo-Wschodniej, organizacji broniącej praw amerykańskich jeńców wojennych schwytanych przez Wietnam Północny podczas wojny w Wietnamie.
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This article is a review of The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home (2019) by Heath Hardage Lee. The book presents a popular history of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia, an organisation that advocated for the rights of American prisoners of war captured by North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
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