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This article made me think a little more about the relationship between literature and history. I have never read "The Red Badge of Courage", but it my high school it was not taught in history classes, only english classes. If it is considered "real literature of the Civil War" as Hemingway put it, is it because it beautifully portrayed the war or the nation's notions of what the war meant. Or maybe it just made for a better story. Though I do have a strong interest in women's history, I can't help but find a battlefield more appealing than a northern home for a piece of fiction. -John Rowley | This article made me think a little more about the relationship between literature and history. I have never read "The Red Badge of Courage", but it my high school it was not taught in history classes, only english classes. If it is considered "real literature of the Civil War" as Hemingway put it, is it because it beautifully portrayed the war or the nation's notions of what the war meant. Or maybe it just made for a better story. Though I do have a strong interest in women's history, I can't help but find a battlefield more appealing than a northern home for a piece of fiction. -John Rowley | ||
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| + | One of the comments that struck me in the article was John Westbrook arguing that during World War II "the figure of the pinup girl personified 'what men were fighting for.'" This is surprising to me because a male is giving a woman masculine characteristics, somewhat of a rarity at this time. During the late 19th century, women are not supposed to possess masculine characteristics in any way, and typically outside of encouraging males to enlist or be patriotic, they are not typically involved outside of the domestic sphere. Secondly this is surprising because a male is giving these characteristics to a female.--MDvorak | ||
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== Elsa Barkley Brown, “To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black Women’s Political History, 1865-1880” == | == Elsa Barkley Brown, “To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black Women’s Political History, 1865-1880” == | ||
