Jordan Braverman's eloquent narrative account of media participation in World War II is comprehensive enough to satisfy the most rigorous academic standards, but written to be accessible to all readers. To Hasten the Homecoming is an important cultural history of the American home front during World War II, which examines how popular culture reinforced patriotic sentiments and united an innocent country to defeat a common enemy. Braverman provides readers with a deep insight into America's national identity and self-perceptions during the most savage war in history.
This essay is written in memoriam of Val Kim, a relatively unknown young migrant activist, who tragically died last year at the age of 32. Inasmuch as her premature death caused pain to her family and friends, it can also be regarded from a wider perspective: her precarious existence can be representative of one that m...
This article traces the influence of
Katallagete
upon the ministry of the author when, as a young pastor in the early 1980s, he discovered archived issues of the journal going back to 1965. The writings and lives of Will Campbell, William Stringfellow, Thomas Merton, and Fannie Lou Hamer became central. Ms. Hamer’s...
Kyle Childress· Review & Expositor· 0 citations
Designed to give students a concise compass to probe the history of World War II America and to assess the war’s impact on American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition but adds new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of veterans, expanded cov...
In 1951, the characters of Trueman and Lovewit met to debate matters theatrical in Robertson Davies’s
A Dialogue on the State of the Theatre in Canada
, published in what has become known as the Massey Report. Its recommendations led to the founding of the Canada Council and the policy regime that shaped the instit...
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In the final season of Stranger Things, Holly Wheeler’s disobedience to Henry/Vecna opens up a discussion about female agency in fairy tales. Unlike fairy tale tradition, Holly’s disobedience is unequivocally rewarded. This paper investigates the meaning of “Little Red Riding Hood” and “Bluebeard” and, translating them...
