Jojo Rabbit
Franz, Benjamin. 2019. Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal 49, no. 2: 34-36. Benjamin Franz writes a review of Taika Waititi’s film Jojo Rabbit, analyzing Waititi’s use of genre-blending to create a…
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The Political F. Scott Fitzgerald: Liberal Illusion and Disillusion in ‘This Side of Paradise’ and ‘The Beautiful and the Damned’
Monk, Craig. 1995. American Studies International 33, no. 2: 60-70. Monk discusses war and peace in two of the interwar novels of F. Scott Fitzgerald, who fought in World War I and lived and travelled throughout Europe…
Writing the dismembered nation: The aesthetics of horror in Iraqi narratives of war
Bahoora, Haytham. 2015. The Arab Studies Journal 23, no. 1: 184-208. Bahoora presents a discussion of three Iraqi novels (Luay Hamza Abbas’s Closing His Eyes, Hassan Blasim’s The Reality and the Record, and Ahmed…
What to do when you have the power; in the meantime, remember to skylark!
Vonnegut, Kurt. 2016. In If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Edited by Dan Wakefield. New York: Seven Stories Press. A 1970 commencement speech from Kurt Vonnegut, in which he argues that art restores innocence and optimism…
COMING OUT AS JEWISH: To Be or Not to Be, 1942
McCormick, Rick. 2020. In Sex, Politics, and Comedy: The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, 282–307. Indiana University Press. In this book chapter, Rick McCormick discusses Ernst Lubitch’s 1942 comedy To Be Or…
Allegories of Pathology
Roy, Sneharika. 2018. A Poetics of Neurosis. Postcolonial scholar Sneharika Roy claims that in narratives of traumatized American expatriates, physical wounds serve as metaphors for psychological turmoil. She provides…
THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)
Harvey, Stephen. 1972. Film Comment 8, no. 3: 20–22. Author Stephen Harvey presents an analysis of Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 film The Great Dictator, and in particular its political comedy and its relationship to the bulk…
Feminists Building Peace and Reconciliation: Beyond Post-Conflict
Porter, Elisabeth. 2016. Peacebuilding 4, no. 2: 210-225. This article problematises the concept of ‘post-conflict’ through the feminist lens and asserts that, even in the absence of formal inter-state or inter-group…
Care as Everyday Peacebuilding
Vaittinen, Tiina, Amanda Donohoe, Rahel Kunz, Silja Bara Omarsdottir, and Sanam Roohi. 2019. Peacebuilding 7, no. 2: 194-209. This article investigates the notion of care as a power relation, with the embodiment of…
An embodied everyday peace in the midst of violence
Helen Berents (2015) Peacebuilding, 3:2, 1-14 This text examines the stories of marginalised young people in Colombia who are oftentimes excluded from the very discussions of violence and reconciliation that most…