Cultural heritage and prisoners of war : creativity behind barbed wire / / edited by Gilly Carr and Harold Mytum

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (329 p.)
• Disciplina: 940.5472
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons; Creative ability - Psychological aspects; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - Psychological aspects; Material culture - History - 20th century; Prisoners of war - Psychology; Nazi concentration camps - Psychological aspects; World War, 1939-1945 - Psychological aspects; Material culture - Psychological aspects; World War, 1914-1918 - Prisoners and prisons
• Altri autori: CarrGillian MytumHarold <1955->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War Creativity Behind Barbed Wire; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Tables; 1. The Importance of Creativity Behind Barbed Wire: Setting a Research Agenda; Part I: Creativity and Narrativesof Survival; 2. Wonder Bar: Music and Theatre as Strategies for Survival in a Second World War POW Hospital Camp; 3. 'Spiritual Vitamins': Music in Huyton and Central Internment Camps May 1940 to January 1941; 4. Tins, Tubes and Tenacity: Inventive Medicine in Camps in the Far East ; 5. Creativity and the Body: Civilian Internees in British Asia during the Second World War6. The Arts of Survival: Remaking the Inside Spaces of Japanese American Concentration Camps; Part II: Narratives andCounter-Narrativesof Internment; 7. In the Distorted Mirror: Cartoons and Photography of Polish and British POWs in Wehrmacht Captivity; 8. Souvenirs of Internment: Camp Newspapers as a Tangible Record of a Forgotten Experience; 9. Deciphering Dynamic Networks from Static Images: First World War Photographs at Douglas Camp ; 10. Beyond Collaboration and Resistance: 'Accommodation' at the Weihsien Internment Camp, China, 1943-194511. 'God Save the King!': Creative Modes of Protest, Defi ance and Identity in Channel Islander Internment Camps in Germany, 1942-1945; 12. 'Astounding and Encouraging': High and Low Art Produced in Internment on the Isle of Man during the Second World War; Part III: Creativity and Internment Identities; 13. Kulturkrieg and Frontgeist from behind the Wire: World War I Newspapers from Douglas Internment Camp; 14. Captivity in Print: The Form and Function of POWCamp Magazines ; 15. The Women's Embroideries of Internment in the Far East 1942-194516. Madonnas and Prima Donnas: The Representation of Women in an Italian Prisoner of War Camp in South Africa; 17. Necessity, the Mother of Invention: Ingenuity in German Prisoner of War Camps; 18. Camp Domesticity: Shifting Gender Boundaries in WWI Internment Camps; Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates, mugs and makeshift stoves, all which have previously received little attention. The authors of this volume show the wide potential of such items to inform us about the daily life and struggle for survival behind barbed wire. Previously dismissed as items which could only serve to illustrate POW
• Titolo autorizzato: Cultural heritage and prisoners of war
• ISBN: 1-280-66140-2; 9786613638335; 0-203-12062-0; 1-136-32237-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779019203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in heritage ; ; 2.