Inventory of another country: Rebecca West and the legacy of 1918

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 292-303
Author(s):  
Catherine Toal
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Great War ◽  
Rebecca West ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
The Great War

Written in the late 1930s, Rebecca West’s Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (1941) is shaped on every level by the Great War. West investigates the causes of the conflict in the place from which it originated, calling urgently for a defence of the settlement of Versailles. Her project of persuasion raises general entertainment to the heights of modernist epic and contemporary myth. At the same time, the text’s critique of imperial interference shows the inconsistent global application of the principle of the ‘rights of small nations’. Using the frameworks of psychoanalysis popularized in the anglophone world during the 1920s, West identifies individual struggle with the dilemmas of history, and diagnoses the nature and limits of social change that followed in the wake of 1918.

scholarly journals Double palimpsest: History and myth in the poetry of the Gallipoli campaign

2021 ◽  
Vol 51 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 273-291
Author(s):  
Richard Hibbitt ◽  
Berkan Ulu
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
History And Myth ◽  
The Great War

The Ottoman defeat of the British and French imperial forces during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915, known in Turkish as the Çanakkale Wars, had already shown how the theatres of war would extend beyond Europe. While much of the poetry in English that came from Gallipoli is well known in the Anglophone world, the Turkish poetry from Çanakkale is less well known outside Turkey itself. This article analyses selected Gallipoli poems written in both languages in order to show how they had similar recourse to overlapping narratives of history and myth in their efforts to place the experience of war within a wider transhistorical and transcultural framework. By reflecting on the different uses of this double palimpsest, it aims to show how a transnational and transcultural approach to memorial culture can develop our understanding of how the Great War was written.

The Great War and Social Change, 1900–1919

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-31
Author(s):  
R. Keith Schoppa
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
The Political ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Great War ◽  
The World ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Military Units ◽  
Deal Making

In 1914, nationalism was the political “ism” that seemed the motive choice, but ironically that is when “globalization” defined as “extending to other or all parts of the world” became clearly evident. The Great War tied the globe together: colonies participated in the fighting, and thousands of the colonized were sent to Europe to serve in labor or military units. This was not the first sign of a world coming together. The late nineteenth century witnessed globalization’s advance: 52 million Europeans migrated to the Americas, adopting a new culture. Similarly, industrialization globalized, bringing increased commerce on the world scene. At war’s end, the Spanish flu brought the globe together against the pandemic. The war did not change the world’s views on nationalism as the national intrigue and deal making at the Versailles Conference underscores.

The Great War in History

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Winter ◽  
Antoine Prost
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Great War

Catholicism and the Great War

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Houlihan
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Great War

The Psychology of the Great War.

1917 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 397-397
Author(s):  
Charles A. Ellwood
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
The Great War

Review of A school history of the Great War.

1919 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-176
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Great War ◽  
School History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War
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