AT 2012

Hvad er en katastrofe?

René Bühlmann og Bjørn Grøn skriver:

• "Vi vil ikke forsøge at give en præcis definition af ordet katastrofe - det ville næppe gå godt med sådanne hverdagsord. Opgavekommissionen har skrevet en ret udførlig introduktion til emnet (se Til inspiration) og heri gjort en del for at indkredse, hvad vi har ment med ordet. Og her taler vi fx om ulykker, der kan udvikle sig til katastrofer, når de involverer mange osv. Der er ikke i teksten belæg for at lade individuelle ulykker som en ødelagt knæskal, en kræftsyg mor, tabet af sit kæreste kæledyr o.l. være omfattet af ordet katastrofe.
• Det centrale er imidlertid, at eleven selv skal stå på mål for sin brug af ordet. Det er eleven der vælger, og det kan ikke udelukkes at eleven kan finde en vinkel på en sag som vi ikke kan se og dermed komme godt i mål med sager vi på forhånd ville være tvivlende overfor. Det fremgår af opgaveformuleringen, at eleven selv skal redegøre for dette. Og her er det ikke et svar, at man har fået lov af sin lærer eller lignende.
• Mens vi mener, at man skal fraråde elever at skrive om den enkeltstående ulykke, så er det en anden sag, hvis man vælger at skrive om noget fiktivt. Her kan den individuelle katastrofe jo af og til være behandlet som en metafor for det meget store. Det gælder både i moderne romaner som Safran Foers og DeLillos romaner om 9/11, og i de græske tragedier. I den tankeverden er det jo en samfundsmæssig katastrofe, at Ødipus agerer som han gør, og en diskussion herom rummer uhyre spændende stof."

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American Literature after September 11

• Philip Beard: Dear Zoe (March 2005)
• Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (April 2005)
• Lynne Sharon Schwartz: The Writing on the Wall (May 2005)
• Reynolds Price: The Good Priest's Son (June 2005)
• Jay McInerney: The Good Life (January 2006)
• John Updike: Terrorist (June 2006)
• Ken Kalfus: A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (July 2006)
• Jess Walter: The Zero (September 2006)
• Don DeLillo: Falling Man (May 2007)
• Andre Dubus III: The Garden of the Last Days (June 2008)
• Jonathan Franzén: Freedom (2009)
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Pan Am Flight 103 - Lockerbie (21 December 1988)

• Pan Am Flight 103 was Pan American World Airways' third daily scheduled transatlantic flight from London Heathrow Airport to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On Wednesday, 21 December 1988, the aircraft flying this route — a Boeing 747–121 registered N739PA and named “Clipper Maid of the Seas” — was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. Eleven people in Lockerbie, in southern Scotland, were also killed as large sections of the plane fell in the town and destroyed several houses, bringing total fatalities to 270
• The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort
• Mother of Lockerbie Bombing Looks Back

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Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (1986)

• The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. The spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of central Florida at 11:38 am EST
• Margaret Lazarus Dean, The Time It Takes to Fall 2007
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My Lai (1968)

• The My Lai Massacre was the Vietnam War mass murder of between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam on March 16, 1968, by United States Army soldiers of "Charlie" Company of 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 11th Brigade of the American Division. Most of the victims were women, children (including babies), and elderly people. Many were raped, beaten, and tortured, and some of the bodies were later found to be mutilated.
• Tim O'Brien, My Lai, and America (1994)
• Tim O'Brien - author
  
• Four Hours in My Lai
• The My Lai Courts Martial, Links and Bibliography
  

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Aberfan Disaster (1966)

• The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip that occurred in the Welsh village of Aberfan on Friday 21 October 1966, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
• Bee Gees, New York Mining Disaster 1941
• Leon Rosselson, Palaces of Gold 1968
• Ian McEwan, Saturday kan bruges om 9/11 og om Aberfan. (Saturday is a "post 9/11" novel, dealing with the change in lifestyle faced by Westerners after the 11th of September attacks.)
• John Waller, You Have No Place Here (2009)
  

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Titanic (1912)

• Filmen Titanic (1997) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120338/
• Walter Lord, A Night to Remember (1955)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lord
• _{10 Unsinkable Science Fiction Stories About The Titanic http://io9.com/5213558/10-unsinkable-science-fiction-stories-about-the-titanic}
• Fiction books about the Titanic
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Joseph Conrad, Typhoon (1902)

• It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain MacWhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a typhoon—a mature tropical cyclone of the northwestern part of the Pacific Ocean. Other characters include the young Jukes and Solomon, the head engineer. The novel classically evokes the sea-faring life at the turn of the century. While Macwhirr is emotionally estranged from his family and crew, and though he refuses to consider an alternate course to skirt the typhoon, his indomitable will in the face of a superior natural force elicits grudging admiration.
• I Joseph Conrads mesterlige roman "Typhoon" fra 1902 skildres på  meget præcis vis et fragtskibs møde med en tyfon i det sydkinesiske hav. Mulighed for kombination med fysik. Hvor og hvordan opstår tyfoner og hvilke karakteristika ved tyfoner har Conrad fanget så præcist?
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Wounded Knee (1890)

• The Wounded Knee Massacre happened on December 29, 1890^, near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA.
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (roman og film)
  
  BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE er produceret af HBO Films og inspireret af Dee Browns anmelderroste bestseller.
• Jacob Holdt, Sådan gik det for sig i indianernes Wounded Knee (artikel i Kristeligt Dagblad 1973) - Kampen mellem de amerikanske myndigheder og indianerne i Wounded Knee i staten South Dakota var et oprør mod de forhold, der bydes indianere i det moderne USA. Det var en kamp på liv og død og de automatiske våben, indianerne viste sig at være i besiddelse af eksisterer stadig. De er gravet ned. Der er våbenstilstand men ikke fred. En lignende situation kan opstå igen.
• Richard E. Jensen _{^{Eyewitness at Wounded Knee -}} The tragedy at Wounded Knee has often been written about, but the existing photographs have received little attention until now. Eyewitness at Wounded Knee brings together and assesses for the first time some 150 photographs that were made before and immediately after the massacre.
• Roger di Silvestro, In the Shadow of Wounded Knee - This is the prologue of my book, In the Shadow of Wounded Knee, about a young Lakota named Plenty Horses who, in the wake of the Wounded Knee massacre, stood trial for shooting a military officer, Lt. Edward Casey, in the back of the head.
• Douglas C. Jones, A Creek Called Wounded Knee (1997)
  

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Great Famine in Ireland (1845-1852)

• During the famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%.The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as potato blight Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, the impact and human cost in Ireland – where one-third of the population was entirely dependent on the potato for food – was exacerbated by a host of political, social and economic factors which remain the subject of historical debate.
• The Irish Famine is a book co-authored by Diarmaid Ferriter and Colm Tóibín in 2001. The book is two volumes, the first of which was written and originally published by Tóibín in 1999. The second volume, written by Ferriter, is entitled The Capricious Growth of a Single Root and was added in 2001.
• The Young Ireland movement was both energized and divided by the famine of the 1840s. Two writers in particular engaged in the period’s debate about Ireland’s future and Britain’s policies during the famine: John Mitchel and James Fintan Lalor. Mitchel became an editor of The Nation in 1845, but over the next three years he grew increasingly disillusioned with the idea of legal and constitutional agitation for change in Ireland. In 1848 he split from The Nation and founded the incendiary newspaper The United Irishman. He was accused of sedition and arrested and tried under the Treason Felony Act of 1848. A “packed” jury convicted him, and he was sentenced (as were other Young Irelanders) to time in Britain’s penal colonies. Mitchel’s Jail Journal (1854) remains one of the great prose classics of Irish writing, and his trenchant critiques of the British Empire and of British policy in Ireland during the famine became foundational texts for the later Irish republican movement.

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Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year (1722)

• The novel is a fictionalised account of one man's experiences of the year 1665, in which the Great Plague struck the city of London. The book is told roughly chronologically, though without sections or chapter headings.
• Bogen som ebog hos Gutenberg
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