This working group discusses research on cultural and material production by people who experienced different forms of detention during modern military conflicts. It focuses on life writing, literary and poetry works, photography and visual artworks by civilian internees, prisoners of war and refugees between 1940 and the present.
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Marius Hentea created the doc Wodehouse’s Money in the Bank in the group
Captivity and Creativity in Wartime on MLA Commons 9 months, 2 weeks ago -
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Elena Bellina started the topic Captivity and Creativity in Wartime in the discussion
Captivity and Creativity in Wartime on MLA Commons 10 months, 2 weeks agoThis working group aims to expand, in a comparative and transnational direction, the project on Italian POWs’ intellectual production started with the 2022 MLA Convention roundtable Multilingual Encounters in Captivity: Italians in POW Camps. The roundtable has resulted in a proposal for a collection of essays on captivity and creativity that t…[Read more]
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Elena Bellina created the group
Captivity and Creativity in Wartime on MLA Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
