Plots of War : : Modern Narratives of Conflict / / ed. by Isabel Capeloa Gil, Adriana Martins.
Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict discusses the dynamics of change and transformation that underlie the troubled project of modernity and shows how deeply it has been shaped by war and violence. The narrative of war, the emplotment of violence in historic and mainly in symbolic terms, is d...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Culture & Conflict ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (219 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Plots of War
- Works Cited
- I. Post-memory Narratives
- The Children of the Colonial War: Post-Memory and Representations
- The (In)Visibility of Colonial Wars in Mia Couto and J. M. Coetzee
- Public Memories in Italy: Contemporary Narratives about the Italian Colonial Past
- Remembering the Spanish Republican Exile: An Audiovisual Return
- II. Othering the Battleground
- The (In)Visibility of War in British Novels of the Twentieth Century
- Unmasking Violence and Domination: Mechtilde Lichnowsky and the 20th Century (Word) Wars
- Porn, Rape and the Fall of the Third Reich: On Thor Kunkel’s Novel Endstufe
- Palestinian Women’s Bodies as a Battlefield
- III. Emplotting the Nation
- Addressing Wounds: Whitman Engaged
- How to Forge a Victory out of a Defeat: Uses of War in Finnish Nation Building
- The Crusaders: Representations of the American Soldier in the Second World War American Novel
- Making Violence Visible in Vietnam War Narratives: The Case of A Rumor of War
- The Subversive and the Sublime: Aspects of the British, German and Portuguese Critical Reception of ‘Anti-War’ Films in the Aftermath of May ’68
- Editors
- Index