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Memory of the Past in Magda Szabó’s “Katalin Street”

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Last year, I read Magda Szabó’s Kaitlin Street, and after finishing it, I knew that I wanted to teach because of the ways that the novel explores themes of memory, love, family, and more during turbulent times. As I constructed my syllabus for “The Reverberations of World War II,” I toyed with adding Szabó’s Abigail, a novel about a young girl at a boarding school in Hungary during … Read More Memory of the Past in Magda Szabó’s “Katalin Street”

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The Continuation of History and The Search for Stability Amidst War and Chaos: Part II

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In his essay “The Storyteller,” Walter Benjamin details the power of storytelling and the ways that stories do more than just relate the events in a character’s or society’s lives. Stories span time and history, moving forward. They highlight the “insignificant” who move through history, those who don’t appear in the records of the age, those who exist as the historical moments occur. We … Read More The Continuation of History and The Search for Stability Amidst War and Chaos: Part II

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The Continuation of History and the Search for Stability Amidst War and Chaos

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Amidst calamity, whether that be war, famine, environmental disasters, or anything that disrupts individuals’ existence, life moves forward, history moves forward. This constant progression of time has become a recurring theme so far in my “The Reverberations of World War II” course, specifically in Anna Seghers’ Transit and Victor Serge’s Last Times. Each of these novels focuses on individuals fleeing the advancing Nazis. They move from Paris … Read More The Continuation of History and the Search for Stability Amidst War and Chaos

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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s “Grass” and The Power of Comics

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Last fall, I picked up Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s Waiting, a graphic novel, loosely based on Gendry-Kim’s mother, as sisters, separated from one another during the Korean War, reunite during one of the family reunions between North and South Korea. Gendry-Kim’s writing and illustrations powerfully depict the emotions of the sisters, and her use of the graphic medium, through black and white illustrations, conveys the pain and suffering of … Read More Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s “Grass” and The Power of Comics

+ anna seghers, holocaust, nazi, the seventh cross, world war ii

The Transmission of Hate in Anna Segher’s “The Seventh Cross”

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While the normality of life amidst the tyranny of fascism caught my attention in Anna Seghers’ novels, I also noticed how Seghers, in The Seventh Cross, details the ways that youth become indoctrinated into fascism and oppressive political ideologies. There are multiple scenes in The Seventh Cross that involve the Hitler Youth or young men joining the SA and SS, specifically George Heisler’s younger brother Heini.  Early during his … Read More The Transmission of Hate in Anna Segher’s “The Seventh Cross”

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