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Rag Time: Decadent Textiles in the Louisiana Gothic of the Fin de Siècle
Get PDFLafcadio Hearn’s fascination with the ‘dead bride’ of the American South, beginning upon his arrival in Louisiana in 1877, was predicated upon a notion of Louisiana as a locus of cultural and literary production that had been among the richest in America for decades. If we continue Hearn’s metaphor of the dead bride, her wedding gown is undoubtedly a rich one, embroidered and bedight with baroque finery. By the time of Hearn’s arrival in the late 1870s, Louisiana was adorned with numerous literary journals and a wealth of works written in multiple languages. As Catherine Savage Brosman suggests:
Thus, crisscrossed for three centuries by competing ethnic, civic, and cultural lines of force, and unique, as the only former French colony in what is now the United States, Louisiana gave rise, unsurprisingly, to a unique cultural patrimony, or what has been termed the state’s ‘perverse complexity’.[i]
Although the invocation of perversity brings with it a host of complex associations, one that has been underexplored, both in American literature and in literature of the South more specifically, is that of decadence. In Fears and Fascinations (2005), Thomas F. Haddox makes a case for viewing works in the tradition of the Southern Gothic, and their antecedent works, through the lens of decadence – far from being a uniquely European phenomenon, he suggests, decadence is to be found in the American South, in ‘the spectacle of a South haunted by defeat, by the ghosts of racial atrocities, and by a fantasy of past cultural glory […]. If failure is indeed beautiful to a decadent, then the ruined, faux-aristocratic South becomes a splendid backdrop’.[ii] Rather than seeing Louisiana literature as a regional curiosity, I propose we cease to enshroud ourselves in a parochial view of what constitutes major and minor literatures.
[i] Catherine Savage Brosman, Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2013), p. 12.
[ii] Thomas F. Haddox, Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in the American South (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), p. 86
On Their Way Home: The Role of Aachen in the Exchange and Repatriation of British and German Prisoners of War during the First World War
Get PDFThis paper analyses the role that Aachen, the western most German city located close to the Netherlands, played during the exchange and repatriation of British and German military prisoners of war from 1914 to 1918. It is argued that Aachen served as an important staging post. British prisoners were assembled in the city, medically examined, and, depending on the examination result, allowed to leave Germany across the border to the neutral Netherlands. The analysis contributes to the historiography by illuminating the neglected role that Aachen played during the exchange and repatriation process
The Battle of Jutland and the teaching of naval warfare at the French Army’s higher war school in Paris,1920-21
Get PDFThe French Army promoted and practiced inter-service familiarity in advanced professional studies carried out at its well-established higher war school in Paris that reopened immediately after the First World War. As part of the curriculum, naval officers lectured to army officers on naval tactics and strategy with a strong historical focus. This activity involved early teaching by one of the French Navy’s leading original thinkers in the interwar period. Recent war experience against the Germans provided rich content for those lectures. The naval battle of Jutland was one case given particular consideration. A mimeographed typescript copy of the original lectures indicates that the French showed interest in a sea encounter with which they were only tangentially involved
Preface
Get PDFThis issue is the second to be focused on a single figure. Our inaugural issue published in 2018 was dedicated to Arthur Symons and now, four years later, we are delighted to be able to devote the current issue to another prolific and versatile writer and critic, Vernon Lee (Violet Paget, 1856-1935). As Patricia Pulham and Sally Blackburn-Daniels acknowledge in their guest-editors’ Introduction, scholarship on Lee has grown in leaps and bounds over the last twenty years and Lee is now accessible to ‘a whole new generation of readers and students and prompting scholarship not only on her fiction but on other genres in which she wrote, as well as fictionalized versions of Lee in contemporary fiction’ (p. ii)
Book Review: Arts Therapies and the Mental Health of Children and Young People: Contemporary Research Theory and Practice
Get PDFEdited by Uwe Hermann, Margaret Hills de Zárate, and Salvo Pitruzzella this book is the first of a series to be published on the Arts Therapies and Mental Health of Children and Young People. The editors have carefully compiled contributions from England, Scotland, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Italy, Israel, and Trinidad Tobago. The book consists of an introduction followed by nine chapters with all the Arts Therapies disciplines represented.
The relevance and urgency of the book’s theme, the mental health of children and young people, is immediately illustrated in the introduction, which is written by two of the three editors, Margaret Hills de Zárate and Uwe Hermann. The editors sketch the global context, the effects of globalisation, and the necessity for the Arts and Arts Therapies to be employed in the support of vulnerable and underprivileged children and young people
A Response to the Book Review published in ATOL 12(1) in 2021 of the publication Moore, M. and Brunskell, E. (Eds.) (2019), Inventing Transgender Children and Young People
Get PDFThis piece responds to the review of the book titled Inventing Transgender Children & Young People in the last published edition 12(1) of ATOL: Art Therapy Online. Throughout, I will refer primarily to the book review and at times to the book which is its focus, as I suggest the two do not differ in their representation of the argument. I will use the phrase Trans and Gender Diverse (TGD) as an umbrella phrase throughout this piece to refer to the many identities within the gender spectrum.
As a member of the TGD community and an Art Therapist, I was deeply troubled to read a review, published in a journal such as ATOL, that had not critiqued a book which I suggest is misleading and harmful to the TGD community. Having joined the ATOL Editorial board after the publication of the review, I was made aware of the editorial board’s efforts to grapple with questions of censorship and freedom in the decision to publish. However, when perspectives are not based in sound evidence, and create misinformation, this becomes problematic, in this case to the identities of a community and their access to equal social inclusion and to the safe access to best practice care within health systems
A Reflection on Global Art Therapy and Socio-Political Justice
Get PDFDrawing from art therapy literature relating to cultural diversity and socio-political justice, as well as from my personal experience as a white German practitioner, in this text I explore the potential role of art therapy in the context of global mental health provision. The paper considers the impact of Western psychological concepts on therapeutic settings, and power dynamics between different countries and cultures, and suggests the relevance of non-Western and Indigenous knowledge and practices for mental health when working in diverse communities. A past project in Nepal will be examined in the light of relevant art therapy literature, and through this, the paper explores the role of art and art therapy in promoting socio-political justice and different cultural approaches to mental wellbeing and healing.
Keywords: art therapy, global mental health, socio-political justice, cultural diversity, psychosocial, Nepa
First World War Canadian Operational Research
Get PDFThis article examines the operational research conducted by the Canadian Corps Gas Services and the Canadian Machine Gun Corps during the First World War. It develops the initial inquiry completed by scholars J.S. Finan and W.J. Hurley and finds that the staff officers of these two specialised Corps conducted operational research with varying degrees of rigour. While none of them ever used the term ‘operational research’ to describe their work, they were undoubtedly its practitioners through their innovation, trials, experimentation, and subsequent dissemination of knowledge. This article offers a new interpretation of their adoption of a new scientific approach to operations and learning within the Canadian Corps during the First World War
Ross Reyburn, Eyewitness at Dieppe: The Only First-Hand Account of WWII’s Most Disastrous Raid
Get PDFA Reflection on Global Art Therapy and Socio-Political Justice (German Translation by Carolyn Krueger)
No full textAusgehend von kunsttherapeutischer Literatur zu kultureller Vielfalt und soziopolitischer Gerechtigkeit sowie von meinen persönlichen Erfahrungen als weiße, deutsche Therapeutin, untersuche ich in dieser Arbeit die potenzielle Rolle von Kunsttherapie im Kontext der globalen mentalen Gesundheitsversorgung. Der Artikel befasst sich mit dem Einfluss westlicher, psychologischer Konzepte auf das therapeutische Setting und mit Machtdynamiken zwischen verschiedenen Ländern und Kulturen. Dabei wird die Relevanz von nicht-westlichem und indigenem Wissen sowie entsprechenden Praktiken für mentale Gesundheit in der Arbeit mit einer diversen Klientel nahegelegt. Ein früheres Projekt in Nepal wird im Licht relevanter kunsttherapeutischer Literatur betrachtet. Dabei wird die Rolle von Kunst und Kunsttherapie in der Förderung soziopolitischer Gerechtigkeit und unterschiedlicher kultureller Ansätze für psychisches Wohlbefinden und Heilung untersucht.
Stichworte: Kunsttherapie, globale mentale Gesundheit, soziopolitische Gerechtigkeit, kulturelle Vielfalt, psychosozial, Nepa