Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity Behind Barbed Wire

ISBN-13: 9780415522151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 316 str.

Gilly Carr; Harold Mytum

Opis

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 memoirs and diaries, this book argues for a central role of all items of creativity in helping us to understand the true experience of life in captivity. The international authors draw upon a rich seam of material from their own case studies of POW and civilian internment camps across the world, to offer a range of interpretations of this diverse and extraordinary material.

Spis treści

1.The Importance of Creativity Behind Barbed Wire: Setting a Research Agenda Gilly Carr and Harold Mytum  Part I: Creativity and Narratives of Survival  2. Wonder Bar: Music and Theatre as Strategies for Survival in a Second World War POW Hospital Camp Sears Eldredge  3. ‘Spiritual Vitamins:’ Music in Huyton and Central Internment Camps May 1940–January 1941 Suzanne Snizek  4. Tins, Tubes and Tenacity: Inventive Medicine in Camps in the Far East Meg Parkes  5. Creativity and the Body: Civilian Internees in British Asia during the Second World War Felicia Yap  6. The Arts of Survival: Remaking the Inside Spaces of Japanese American Concentration Camps Jane Dusselier  Part II: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of Internment  7. In the Distorted Mirror: Cartoons and Photography of Polish and British POWs in Wehrmacht Captivity Anna Wickiewicz  8. Souvenirs of Internment: Camp Newspapers as a Tangible Record of a Forgotten Experience Euan McKay  9. Deciphering Dynamic Networks from Static Images: First World War Photographs at Douglas Camp Harold Mytum  10. Beyond Collaboration and Resistance: ‘Accommodation’ at the Weihsien Internment Camp, China, 1943-1945 Jonathan Henshaw  11. ‘God Save the King!’ Creative Modes of Protest, Defiance and Identity in Channel Islander Internment Camps in Germany, 1942-1945 Gilly Carr  12. ‘Astounding and Encouraging’: High and Low Art Produced in Internment on the Isle of Man during the Second World War Rachel Dickson, Sarah MacDougall and Ulrike Smalley  Part III: Creativity and Internment Identities  13. Kulturkrieg and Frontgeist from Behind the Wire: World War I Newspapers from Douglas Internment Camp Jennifer Kewley Draskau  14. Captivity in Print: The Form and Function of POW Camp Magazines Oliver Wilkinson  15. The Women’s Embroideries of Internment in the Far East 1942-1945 Bernice Archer and Alan Jeffreys  16. Madonnas and Prima Donnas: The Representation of Women in an Italian Prisoner of War Camp in South Africa Donato Somma  17. Necessity, the Mother of Invention: Ingenuity in German Prisoner of War Camps Peter Doyle  18. Camp Domesticity: Shifting Gender Boundaries in WWI Internment Camps Iris Rachamimov Notes Contributors  Index

O autorze

Gilly Carr is a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Cambridge’s Institute of Continuing Education, as well as a Fellow of St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. Her publications focus on the material culture of internment, and on the legacy and heritage of the German occupation in the Channel Islands.

Harold Mytum’s research concentrates on the archaeology of western Britain and Ireland from the Iron Age to the present, and global historical archaeology (17th-20th centuries). He is exploring the interface between archaeology and cognate disciplines through one of his current research projects – the materiality of 20th-century internment.