Dressing up for War : : Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War /

Dressing up for War : : Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War / / edited by Aránzazu Usandizaga, Andrew Monnickendam.

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Superior document:Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 24
TeilnehmendeR:
Monnickendam, Andrew,
Usandizaga, Aránzazu,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2001.
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
Series:Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature ; 24.
Physical Description:1 online resource (312 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. 1914-1918 THE WAR TO CHANGE ALL WORDS
  • 1. Laurie KAPLAN: "How Funny I Must Look with my Breeches Pulled Down to my Knees": Nurses' Memoirs and Autobiographies from The Great War
  • 2. Peter BUITENHUIS: The Perversion of Motherhood: the Trope of the Son at the Front
  • 3. Caroline ZILBOORG: The Center of the Cyclone: Gender and Genre in H.D.'s War Novel
  • 4. María ÁNGELES TODA: Deadly Marriages: Masculinity and the Pleasures of Violence in H.R. Haggard's Romances of Adventures
  • 5. António LOPES: (Un)masking the Self: the Hero in Edwardian Popular Fiction
  • II. DRESS REHEARSALS: EARLIER PERFORMANCES AND SCENARIOS
  • 6. Jane E. SCHULTZ: Performing Genres: Sarah Edmonds' Nurse and Spy and the Case of the Cross-Dressed Text
  • 7. Ana María SÁNCHEZ-ARCE: The Prop They Need: Undressing and the Politics of War in Beryl Bainbridge's Master Georgie
  • 8. Renate PETERS: The Metamorphoses of Judith in Literature and Art: War by Other Means
  • 9. Tabea Alexa LINHARD: Adelita's Radical Act of Counter-Writing
  • 10. Simon BARKER: Dressing up for War: Militarism in Early Modern Culture
  • 11. Joan CURBET: Repressing the Amazon: Cross-Dressing and Militarism in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
  • III. MODERN TIMES: REDRESSING OLD WOUNDS
  • 12. Jenny HARTLEY: Warriors and Healers, Impostors and Mothers: Betty Miller's On the Side of the Angels
  • 13. Maria Antònio OLIVER: "Sangre Fértil"/Fertile Blood: Migratory Crossings, War and Healing in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera
  • 14. Lorrie GOLDENSOHN: Towards a Non-Combatant War Poetry: Jarrell, Moore, Bishop
  • 15. Simon PHILO: Breaking the Silence, Crossing the Line: Women Veteran Poets of the Vietnam War
  • 16. Kathleen BRADY, John BRIGGS, Edward A. HAGAN: The Enemy is 'Us': Misconstruing the Real war in The Deer Hunter and Other Post-Vietnam War Narratives
  • 17. Claire TYLEE: "Name upon Name": Myth, Ritual and the Past in Recent Irish Plays Referring to the Great War
  • Notes on Contributors.

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