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“All Hell Let Loose” on the Post-war Homefront: Postmemorial Engagement of Returning Combatants of World War II

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Howes C.

Jednak Książki. Gdańskie Czasopismo Humanistyczne

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2023

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issue 16

59-71

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This article examines a sub-genre of postmemoirs which have been published since the mid1980s, written by children and grandchildren of veteran combatants of the Allied Forces. These British and American generational texts both preserve and unveil hidden historical memory of these men’s participation in what is often referred to as the deadliest war in human history. The silent suffering of these veterans and their families had not been widely disclosed until Stephen Spielberg’s film Saving Private Ryan opened a Pandora’s box. And yet, it remains an enigmatic memory in the collective consciousness of the post-war period. These writers recount the experiences not only of their fathers’ wars, but of homecoming and the subsequent psychological impact of the war on family life, whilst also attempting to understand and come to terms with their own traumatic resonances rooted in these veterans’ Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I discuss some examples of these texts, which include writers such as Germaine Greer, Lucinda Franks, Leila Levinson, Cole Moreton, or Carol Schultz Vento, who have written within this postmemoir sub-genre. I discuss some common approaches to these postmemorial narratives, which interweave tropes of archival romance, confessional literature, and historiographic metafiction. These family postmemoirs challenge the oft mythologized cultural memory of the ‘Good War’, question the meaning of heroism, and reveal the unspoken traumas of post-war familial life, and ultimately contribute not only to disclosing an unknown history but to broadening the thematic horizons of postmemory to the post-generations of Allied ex-servicemen.

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The Tears of Odysseus: Brandstaetter’s Revisiting of the Ancient Homeric Tradition

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Wesołowska E.

Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae et Latinae

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2017

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vol. 27

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issue 2

PL

The paper focuses on the connections between Homeric poems, mainly Odyssey and the Polish drama Odysseus Crying by the Polish playwright Roman Brandstaetter, especially in the light of the motif of weeping and crying.

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Kazakh Homecomings: Between Politics, Culture and Identity

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Nowicka E., Nowicka E.

Central and Eastern European Migration Review

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2020

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vol. 9

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issue 2

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Homecomer. Some biographical implications of immigrants’ visiting their former homes

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Waniek K.

Przegląd Socjologiczny

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2008

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vol. 57

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issue 4

45-67

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This paper considers some of possible implications of emigrants’ visits back home. Alfred Schütz’s seminal paper “The Homecomer” provides a theoretical framework for analysis of autobiographical narrative interviews with young Polish people living in Germany. An attempt is made to explore why and how – typical for the emigration processes – a more critical and objective image of country of origin and a growing feeling of strangeness at home deepens emigrants’ capacity for reflection on their life and identity. Consequently, most of them painfully realise that they will never fully assimilate with the country of immigration and they no longer find themselves comfortable in their country of origin. This has crucial implications for their biography. The collected empirical data show that some of emigrants plan to immediately return to Poland in order to save their emotional relationship with those back home. Others find their homeland poorer and less prospective in comparison to Germany. This legitimate their residence abroad. And finally, the negative homecoming experience can perform a very important function in the narrators’ common-sense argumentation, i.e., this should reduce psychological and biographical costs of their emigration career

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Il poeta sotto la tenda: reminiscenze ungarettiane e sereniane nei versi d’esordio di Nelo Risi

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Lattarulo S. F.

Italica Wratislaviensia

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2015

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issue 6

113-134

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L’Esperienza (Experience, 1948) can truly be considered the first stage of Nelo Risi’s (b. 1920) poetic career. However, this early work of his was poorly received when it first came out. Some poems of this collection were included in two later editions of a book by the title Polso Teso (Strained Wrist), in the section entitled Le Vacche Magre (Lean Cows). This editorial decision marked the author’s willingness to use his first real poetic work as the starting point of his solid and personally chosen literary journey. However, as a detailed analysis of L’Esperienza reveals, the lyrical onset of the author is still heavily influenced by the literary tradition. As a result, the first section of the book, La Tenda (The Tent), comprises elements borrowed from Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Il Porto Sepolto (The Buried Harbour) and Vittorio Sereni’s Diario d’Algeria (Algerian Diary). All of this is in stark contrast with the author’s actual aim, which is to distance himself from literature in order to embrace reality. In particular, the common topos of ‘tent’, which is a narrow and precarious space, becomes the sign of the poet’s permanent condition of imprisonment and also exile after the war. Therefore, homecoming is a problematic occurrence because it is very difficult for the poet to return, to come back to himself and thus regain his primary identity.

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L’esperienza (1948) è, di fatto, la tappa iniziale dell’itinerario poetico di Nelo Risi (Milano 1920). Questa opera giovanile ha ricevuto scarsa attenzione nel tempo. Alcune liriche della raccolta confluiscono nelle due edizioni del libro successivo, Polso teso, dando vita a una sezione intitolata Le vacche magre. Tale scelta editoriale è il segno della volontà dell’autore di considerare il suo primo vero lavoro poetico come un punto solido e irrinunciabile del proprio percorso letterario. Un’analisi puntuale de L’esperienza evidenzia che il battesimo lirico dell’autore risente di suggestioni della tradizione letteraria. In particolare, nella prima sezione del libro (La tenda) si trovano elementi tratti da Il porto sepolto di Giuseppe Ungaretti e da Diario d’Algeria di Vittorio Sereni. Tutto ciò contrasta con il proposito espressamente dichiarato dell’autore di imboccare la strada dell’antiletterarietà a favore dell’aderenza alla realtà. In particolare, il topos accomunante della ‘tenda’, cioè uno spazio ristretto e precario, diventa il segno della permanente condizione di prigionia ed esilio del poeta anche dopo la guerra. Pertanto il ritorno è un’evenienza problematica dal momento che per il poeta reduce è realmente difficile riconciliarsi con il proprio sé, riconquistare la sua identità originaria.

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Obcy we własnym domu. O niektórych biograficznych implikacjach pobytów emigrantów w ojczyźnie

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Waniek K.

Przegląd Socjologiczny

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2008

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vol. 57

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issue 2

45-66

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Traktując klasyczny tekst Alfreda Schütza „Homecomer” jako ramę odniesienia i opierając się na osobistych narracjach osób, które wybrały Niemcy jako kraj życia, artykuł ten zmierza do opisania biograficznych konsekwencji krótkotrwałych pobytów emigrantów w rodzinnych stronach. Znamienny dla procesów emigracyjnych coraz bardziej krytyczny i obiektywny obraz kraju urodzenia oraz narastające poczucie obcości we własnym kraju prowadzi do refleksji nad własnym życiem. Wiedzie ona nieuchronnie do uświadomienia sobie, że dom, który opuścili już nie istnieje, a tam, gdzie wyjechali (w Niemczech) być może nigdy nie poczują się „u siebie”. To budzi u wielu emigrantów ogromy niepokój, któremu starają się zaradzić podejmując znaczące biograficznie decyzje. Zgromadzony materiał empiryczny pokazuje, że u wielu emigrantów brak poczucia wspólnoty doświadczeń w życiu codziennym z bliskimi w Polsce wywołuje potrzebę natychmiastowego powrotu na łono ojczyzny. Dla innych porównanie kraju pochodzenia i kraju emigracji utwierdza ich w przekonaniu o słuszności emigracyjnej drogi. W końcu, niektórym negatywny odbiór Polski z odmiennej kulturowo perspektywy daje możliwość usprawiedliwienia niechęci powrotu do ojczyzny.

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This paper considers some of possible implications of emigrants’ visits back home. Alfred Schütz’s seminal paper “The Homecomer” provides a theoretical framework for analysis of autobiographical narrative interviews with ��young Polish people living in Germany. An attempt is made to explore why and how – typical for the emigration processes – a more critical and objective image of country of origin and a growing feeling of strangeness at home deepens emigrants’ capacity for reflection on their life and identity. Consequently, most of them painfully realise that they will never fully assimilate with the country of immigration and they no longer find themselves comfortable in their country of origin. This has crucial implications for their biography. The collected empirical data show that some of emigrants plan to immediately return to Poland in order to save their emotional relationship with those back home. Others find their homeland poorer and less prospective in comparison to Germany. This legitimate their residence abroad. And finally, the negative homecoming experience can perform a very important function in the narrators’ common- sense argumentation, i.e., this should reduce psychological and biographical costs of their emigration career.

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“All Hell Let Loose” on the Post-war Homefront: Postmemorial Engagement of Returning Combatants of World War II

The Tears of Odysseus: Brandstaetter’s Revisiting of the Ancient Homeric Tradition

Kazakh Homecomings: Between Politics, Culture and Identity

Homecomer. Some biographical implications of immigrants’ visiting their former homes

Il poeta sotto la tenda: reminiscenze ungarettiane e sereniane nei versi d’esordio di Nelo Risi

Obcy we własnym domu. O niektórych biograficznych implikacjach pobytów emigrantów w ojczyźnie