Dominion Cartoon Satire as Trench Culture Narratives: Complaints,Endurance and Stoicism

Abstract

Although Dominion soldiers’ Great War field publications are relatively well known, the way troops created cartoon multi-panel formats in some of them has been neglected as a record of satirical social observation. Visual narrative humour provides a ‘bottom-up’ perspective for journalistic observations that in many cases capture the spirit of the army in terms of stoicism, buoyed by a culture of internal complaints. Troop concerns expressed in the early comic strips of Australians, Canadians, New Zealanders and British were similar. They shared a collective editorial purpose of morale boosting among the ranks through the use of everyday narratives that elevated the anti-heroism of the citizen soldier, portrayed as a transnational everyman in the service of empire. The regenerative value of disparagement humour provided a redefinition of courage as the very act of endurance on the Western Front.     

Norman Lindsay and the ‘Asianisation’ of the German Soldier in Australia during the First World War

Abstract

From the beginning of the First World War, atrocity stories about German depredations against Belgian civilians circulated throughout the Allied world. Caricatures of German soldiers rapidly degenerated into depictions of monstrous ‘Huns’ who were subhuman beasts, prone to acts of rapine and banditry. The most prominent producer of ‘Hun’ cartoons in Australia was artist Norman Lindsay, who published extensively throughout the war. Through an analysis of the antecedents of Lindsay’s monstrous ‘Hun’, this article will demonstrate that the rapid creation of the ‘Hun’ in Australia was made possible by the pre-existing racial caricatures of non-European people that were popular during this period. Chinese and Japanese people who were excluded from Australia by the White Australia policy were the previous targets of Norman Lindsay’s racial caricatures; as stories of German atrocities filtered into Australia, Lindsay transferred traits of Asians on to the German ‘Hun’, thus transforming him into the enemy ‘Other’. These traits were products of British imperial propaganda, and part of an ideology that asserted it was the job of the white man to civilise the barbaric coloured man. By ‘Asianising’ the German, Lindsay used a well understood language of racial caricature to reduce the German to the status of a barbarian. Race was therefore one of the central paradigms through which Australian propaganda operated.     

Loss and Longing: Emotional Responses to West Indian Soldiers during the First World War

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This article traces the place of black soldiers within British military history from the 18th century to the eve of the First World War. It shows how during the war, attitudes to and representations of West Indian volunteers reflected anxieties surrounding white male efficiency.     

The Roots of Stereotypes about Tourists

The unique characteristics of the first generation tourists and the nature of their interactions with the host community leads to the formation of enduring stereotypes. The first wave of mass tourists sees themselves as innovators, worldly, outward looking, risk takers who are different and somehow better than other members of society. Yet, in reality, they are relative latecomers to the world of international tourism, causing members of the receiving community to perceive them as laggards, inward looking individuals who are culturally and socially introverted, unworldly and resistant to change. The situation is exacerbated by package tour participation which is the typical way any new markets begins to travel. Unfortunately, packages produce a highly mediated experience between host and guest that intensify the sense of outsidedness felt by each group, which in turn create stereotypes.

从我国法律监督机关的称谓看检察权之性质

文章论述了中国检察制度的产生、演进及历史渊源,以及检察一词的由来,并重新关注、审视了检察权之性质。     

“现实的人”与“惟一者”：马克思与施蒂纳的主体论之别

马克思与施蒂纳的争论关涉到如何理解形而上学、本质主义在马克思哲学中的地位问题。马克思受施蒂纳影响而提出的“现实的人”,与施蒂纳主张的“惟一者”虽然都具有主体自持性的特点,但在是否追求本质（精神）世界,是否承担对虚无的充实,是否追求永恒、普遍、整体,“现实”或“感性”中是否还拥有超出离散性原子事实的整体性维度及与此相关的超验性维度,对人、现实、历史的理解还是否需要保持辩证法的框架等方面,存在根本性的差异：马克思的回答是肯定的,施蒂纳是否定的。马克思的“现实的人”仍然具有以“现实”、“感性”为根基的“本质性”、“普遍性”、“神圣性”和某种意义上的“抽象性”。所谓马克思反现代性、反本质主义和反传统形而上学,也只能在这样有限的限度内理解,否则就等于把马克思施蒂纳化了。     

警察在维护社会稳定中的重新定位

面对全球一体化及中国加入世贸组织后我国严峻的治安状况的现实,我们应本着与时俱进　　的精神,深刻审视维护社会稳定的理念,重新定位警察在维护社会稳定中的职能。维护社会稳定不再只　　是警察部门独揽的警务工作,必须组织和动员群众积极参与,还权于民才是维护社会稳定的必由之路。     

刑法新增侵犯个人信息两罪之评析

《刑法修正案(七)》第七条新增设了出售、非法提供公民个人信息罪与非法获取公民个人信息罪,两罪的犯罪对象应适当扩展到所有值得刑法保护的公民个人信息;保护法益应由个人隐私权扩展到个人信息控制权,并包含个人信息财产权、个人信用权等;罪状设定也须进一步完善。     

省级人大常委会参与合宪性审查的空间和机制

省级人大常委会参与合宪性审查,对推进我国合宪性审查工作体系化具有重要作用.自地方扩容立法以来,地方立法主体“数量多、能力低”的现状、地方立法的本土化趋向和宪法变迁共同增加了地方规范性文件的违反宪性风险.而现有的规范性文件备案审查制度因其固有体系缺陷,不足以促进合宪性审查的有效实现.在实定法层面,《宪法》《立法法》等相关...     

新中国的诞生是中国共产党对中华民族的历史性贡献

中国共产党在成立以来的80年间,为中华民族的崛起和强大作出了巨大的贡献.50年前,中华人民共和国的诞生使中华民族的面目焕然一新,这是中国共产党为中华民族所作的历史性贡献.