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Confronting The Other in W artime

Confronting The Other in W artime. Russo-Japanese war . “ Staff Captain Rybnikov ” by Aleksandr Kuprin. Russo-Japanese War. February 1904 –September 1905. Formally started with Japan attacking Russian navy at Port Arthur (on lease from China).

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Confronting The Other in W artime

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  1. Confronting The Otherin Wartime Russo-Japanese war. “Staff Captain Rybnikov” by Aleksandr Kuprin

  2. Russo-Japanese War • February 1904 –September 1905. • Formally started with Japan attacking Russian navy at Port Arthur (on lease from China). • A conflict between the two empires over territories in Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China). • Imperialism and expansionism on both sides; a clash of strategic interests on land and in the Pacific Ocean.

  3. Russo-Japanese War • Enormous number of casualties: 70.000 Russians, 47.000 Japanese marines and soldiers died. • Ended as a result of the Battle of Tsushima, where Russia lost its Far East fleet and about 5.000 people. • Major political consequences: the first Russian revolution; military and political rise of Japan. • Real heroism, legendary representations: Russian cruiser Varyag and the gunboat Koreets.

  4. “Captain Ribnikov” (“Staff-Captain Rybnikov”)by Aleksandr Kuprin (1870-1938) • Written in 1905, published in 1906. • Kuprin was a journalist at the time. • The story is based on a meeting with a vaguely Japanese-looking officer wounded at the battle of Mukden.

  5. “Captain Ribnikov” (“Staff-Captain Rybnikov”)by Aleksandr Kuprin • How does Ribnikov give himself away to the reader? • Why does Schavinski have doubts? • Do we ever see Ribnikov’s true personality? • How does the real Japanese officer contradict the image created by propaganda? • What is the author’s stance on the events and characters?

  6. “Captain Ribnikov” (“Staff-Captain Rybnikov”)by Aleksandr Kuprin • Irony and self-irony. • Elements of satire. • Moral dilemmas of the wartime. • The notion of identity questioned. • The official discourse is shown as problematic; the society blinded by propaganda. • Recognition of the Other’s merits. • Common humanity shared with the Other.

  7. War-time Propaganda (Russia)

  8. War-time propaganda (Russia)

  9. War-time propaganda (Japan)

  10. War-time propaganda (Japan)

  11. War-time propaganda (Japan)

  12. War-time propaganda (Japan)

  13. Othering the Enemy

  14. Dehumanizing the Other

  15. Ribnikov is compared to… Japanese generals The Meiji Emperor (“mikado”)

  16. Human face of the Other

  17. Human face of “the Other”:Japanese soldiers and a Russian captive

  18. Human face of the Other:Russian portrayal of the Japanese army

  19. Human face of the “Other”:Russians with their Japanese prisoners

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