James Wakefield Burke
James Wakefield Burke(1906-1989)[1] [1]was an american journalist and author.[2] From 1945 till 1954 he was stationed in Berlin as correspondent of the magazine Esquire (magazine).
Burke worked as a salesman and executive sales manager in Chicago until 1941. Then he became lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Air Forces as a test pilot. After World War II Burke made a living as a journalist. He reported from the Nuremberg trials and acted as a public relations adviser to General Lucius D. Clay. Subsequently he was Public Relations Officer for Generals Joseph T. McNarney, Clay and Frank L. Howley (then American commandant in Berlin).[3]
Burke Publishing the book The Big Rape [4] ("A Historical novel of the fall of Berlin") in 1951.[5] It centers about the sexual violations committed by Soviet Armed Forces|Soviet Soldiers in Berlin during the conquer of the German capital in April / May 1945. The book is rated as being racist and misogynistic by Ingrid Schmidt-Harzbach.[6][7] :de:Klaus_Martens_(Lyriker)|Klaus Martens criticized a stereotypical characterization of nations and races by Burke and insinuates a connection of the author to the CIA / Psychological Warfare Department.[8][9][10][11]
The German edition followed in 1952 (The Big Rape - Die große Vergewaltigung), by Amsel Publishing House[12]. A Paperback Edition (book)|edition in German was published in 1953 under the title Frau komm!
Burke published a "fast paced crime novel" in 1954, Three Days pass - To Kill, German title Ami - Go Home![13] (German translation by Dietrich Bogulinski).
Burke published in total 26 works.[14]
The manuscript of the novel "Of a Strange Woman" (1955) is stored in the University of Kentucky Special Collections.[15][16]
References
- ↑ Congress, The Library of. "Burke, James Wakefield - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress, from LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
- ↑ Martens, Klaus (2000). Pioneering North America: Mediators of European Culture and Literature. Königshausen & Neumann. ISBN 978-3-8260-1756-8.
- ↑ Martens, Klaus (2000). Pioneering North America: Mediators of European Culture and Literature. Königshausen & Neumann. ISBN 978-3-8260-1756-8.
- ↑ "James W. Burke - The Big Rape". Good Reads.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Hunter, Sam (1952-08-03). "A City Humiliated; THE BIG RAPE. By James Wakefield Burke. 282 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus A Young. $3". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
- ↑ "Schmidt-Harzbach: Krieg und Unfrieden". META.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Schmidt-Harzbach, Ingrid (1984-11-01). "Eine Woche im April. Berlin 1945. Vergewaltigung als Massenschicksal". Feministische Studien (in Deutsch). 3 (2): 51–65. doi:10.1515/fs-1984-0206. ISSN 2365-9920.
- ↑ Martens, Klaus (2000). Pioneering North America: Mediators of European Culture and Literature. Königshausen & Neumann. ISBN 978-3-8260-1756-8.
- ↑ Garraio, Júlia (2013-10-01). "Hordes of Rapists: The Instrumentalization of Sexual Violence in German Cold War Anti-Communist Discourses". RCCS Annual Review. A selection from the Portuguese journal Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (5). doi:10.4000/rccsar.476. ISSN 1647-3175.
- ↑ Meyer, Martin (2001). "American Literature in Cold War Germany". Libraries & Culture. 36 (1): 162–171. doi:10.1353/lac.2001.0015. ISSN 2166-3033.
- ↑ Hendershot, Cyndy (2002-12-19). Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-1440-6.
- ↑ "AMSEL". www.classicrimes.homepage.t-online.de. Retrieved 2022-01-03.
- ↑ "„Ami go home." (James Wakefield Burke) – Buch Erstausgabe kaufen – A02725aP01ZZQ". www.booklooker.de (in Deutsch). Retrieved 2022-01-03.
- ↑ "Worldcat James W. Burke".
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ University of Southern Mississippi, Special Collections, University Libraries (2016-07-20). "Wilson (Hugh B.) Manuscript". dx.doi.org. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ "James Wakefield Burke, Of a Strange Woman manuscript,". exploreuk.uky.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
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