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From the gates of Troy to the trenches of the Western Front: the representation of war in the "Iliad" and in novels of the of the Great War
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2007-11-23)
The following research aims at investigating the diferences and similarities between two sets of war narratives: Homer´s "Iliad" and novels of the Great of 1914-18. Dwelling on Hayden White´s methahistory theory and ...
Memories, traumas and hope: remains of the Vietnam War
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2012-05-29)
This master's thesis aims to analyze how the Vietnam veterans' experiences are represented in Vietnam War narratives. The thesis therefore necessarily discusses the powerful role of the post-war period in the lives of ...
The present of the past: representation of war, testimony and ideology in 20th and21st century war orphan narratives
(Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisUFMG, 2016-03-11)
The studies of war literature have a fairly recent development, with most of the contributions in the field being published after the 1990s. Partly due to this recent development, these studies have so far focused centrally ...
The Cold War : Historiography, Memory, Representation
The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There ...
Performing sovereignty: war documentaries and documentary wars in Syria
This essay explores the images emerging from the Syrian conflict through the genre of war documentaries by focusing on the performance of sovereignty. Drawing on Foucault's notion of governmentality and Butler's performative ...
Echoes of war and strains of resistance : representations of the U.S.-México war in The Youth´s companion
(Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Azcapotzalco, División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Departamento de Humanidades, 2013-12)
En este texto se examina una revista para niños intitulada The Youth’s Companion para localizar las representaciones de México en una publicación para niños en los Estados Unidos. Aquí se analizan los temas de la revista ...
Malvinas War Poetry : a Comparative Approach to Gustavo Caso Rosendi’s Soldados and Tony McNally’s Screaming in Silence from the Perspective of Trauma Studies
(2019)
The present thesis offers a comparative approach to a selection of poems from two
collections, Screaming in Silence by Tony McNally and Soldados by Gustavo Caso
Rosendi, in the light of trauma studies. The productions ...
Representations of Masculinities in Steven Spielberg”™s Film Text War of the Worlds
(Universidad del Zulia, 2015)
War as a business and the civil war businesses in 1851
(Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2014-05-01)
Hispano-American civil wars traditionally have been an important factor of political instability and economic insecurity. They had been pointed out as an important cause of national backwardness and underdevelopment in the ...