War and American Literature
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Part of Cambridge Themes in American Literature and Culture
- Editor: Jennifer Haytock, State University College, Brockport, New York
- Date Published: January 2021
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- isbn: 9781108753166
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This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. War and American Literature provides a comprehensive synthesis of the literature and scholarship of US war writing, illuminates how themes, texts, and authors resonate across time and wars, and provides multiple contexts in which texts and a war's literature can be framed. By focusing on American war writing, from the wars with the Native Americans and the Revolutionary War to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this volume illuminates the unique role representations of war have in the US imagination.
Read more- Makes connections among literature about all major US wars
- Introduces new lines of inquiry, explaining five of the latest theoretical approaches and how these approaches can illuminate the subject of war in American literature
- Provides grounding in literature and scholarship of major US wars
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… a diverse volume … It analyses war literature through themes including propaganda, injury, memorialization, cultural change, patriotism, queerness, ecocriticism and whiteness.' Alice Kelly, The Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews'Highly recommended.' G. Grieve-Carlson, Choice Connect
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- Date Published: January 2021
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781108753166
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction Jennifer Haytock
Part I. Aspects of War in American Literature:
1. War and morality Ty Hawkins
2. Propaganda for war from the revolution to the Vietnam war Nicholas J. Cull
3. Representing soldiers Jennifer Haytock
4. Bodies, injury, medicine Michael Zeitlin
5. Veterans, trauma, afterwar Philip Beidler
6. Mourning, elegy, memorialization from the Civil war to Vietnam Steven Trout
7. On antiwar literature Lawrence Rosenwald
Part II. Cultural Moments and the American Literary Imagination:
8. Liberty, freedom, independence, and war James J. Gigantino II
9. Indians, defeat, persistence, and resistance Tammy Wahpeconiah
10. Civil war literature and memory Sarah E. Gardner
11. African American literature, citizenship, and war, 1863-1932 David Davis
12. World war I and cultural change in America Pearl James
13. On the home fronts of two world wars Karsten Piep
14. Patriotism, nationalism, globalism Jonathan Vincent
15. The 'good war' script Diederik Oostdijk
16. The Vietnam war and its legacy Mark A. Heberle
17. The forever wars Stacey Peebles
Part III. New Lines of Inquiry:
18. War and queerness Eric Keenaghan
19. War and disability studies John M. Kinder
20. War and ecocriticism Laura Wright
21. War and whiteness Roger Luckhurst
22. War and posthumanism Tim Blackmore.
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