During a four-day sortie into the jungle, the members of the group manage to express a variety of attitudes toward the Negro surveyor. One of the volunteers-to everyone’s astonishment-is a Negro, taken along, with considerable misgivings, because he is the only available surveyor at the base. Home of the Brave is the latest in what by now is a familiar American cultural product: the “problem movie.” It tells the story of a volunteer patrol of American soldiers out on a pre-invasion mission to reconnoiter a Pacific island occupied by the Japanese. He is the author of Le Glacis Soviétique, and has published articles in Commentary, the New Republic, the Reporter, and other periodicals. Clarion is a Rumanian-born French journalist now living in this country. He was born in New York in 1925 and attended the University of Chicago, where he was managing editor of the University Observer. Clurman is editorial assistant on COMMENTARY.
CLURMAN discusses the movie “Home of the Brave,” and NICOLAS CLARION reports on a recent French literary phenomenon. In doing so, I seek to contribute to studies of racial categories and mental illness by focusing on how mental illness has been treated and rehabilitated differently for members of different racial groups.In this month’s “On the Horizon,” devoted to shorter articles on the cultural scene, RICHARD M. I use this to illustrate the specific legal, cultural, and historical means (e.g., military policies, films, psychiatric diagnostic procedures,etc.) by which race and disability were produced as categories through one another. In light of this commentary, I read moments of difference between the play and the film to compare and contrast the ways that variously racialized subjects are imagined and constructed in relation to mental illness and treatment in the mid-twentieth century United States. Laurents later wrote a memoir entitled Original Story By: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood, in which he reveals that the play was partially based on his experiences and expresses his thoughts on the film’s racial substitution. In 1949, Stanley Kramer produced a film by the same name based on Laurents’s play, but replaced the Jewish protagonist for a black protagonist named Peter Moss. In 1946, Laurents wrote the play Home of the Brave about a Jewish protagonist named Peter Coen and his experiences with anti-Semitism and treatment for mental illness (as psychosomatic paralysis) in the U.S. military and the broader discourse about race, mental illness, and the military that developed from that in the post-WWII period.
It focuses on Jewish playwright and World War II veteran Arthur Laurent’s introspective reflections on his experiences with anti-Semitism in the U.S.
This paper examines a series of texts about World War II and racialized constructions of mental illness.
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