Plots of war : modern narratives of conflict / edited by Isabel Capeloa Gil, Adriana Martins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gil, Isabel Capeloa.

Martins, Adriana Alves de Paula, 1967-

Series:

Culture & Conflict

Culture & conflict ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and literature.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Collective memory and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 employment of violence in historic and mainly in symbolic terms, is deeply embedded in the construction of individual and collective memories, but it also helps to shape the mediation of future conflicts. What is ultimately at stake here is the complex figuration and mediation of the violence of war in ever more hyper-mediated ways with direct consequences to the product

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction: Plots of War / Martins, Adriana

Works Cited

I. Post-memory Narratives

The Children of the Colonial War: Post-Memory and Representations / Ribeiro, Margarida Calafate / Vecchi, Roberto / Ribeiro, António Sousa

The (In)Visibility of Colonial Wars in Mia Couto and J. M. Coetzee / Vieira, Patrícia

Public Memories in Italy: Contemporary Narratives about the Italian Colonial Past / Jedlowski, Paolo

Remembering the Spanish Republican Exile: An Audiovisual Return / Rothauge, Caroline

II. Othering the Battleground

The (In)Visibility of War in British Novels of the Twentieth Century / Nünning, Vera

Unmasking Violence and Domination: Mechtilde Lichnowsky and the 20th Century (Word) Wars / Emonts, Anne Martina

Porn, Rape and the Fall of the Third Reich: On Thor Kunkel's Novel Endstufe / Garraio, Júlia

Palestinian Women's Bodies as a Battlefield / Wadi, Shahd

III. Emplotting the Nation

Addressing Wounds: Whitman Engaged / Duarte, Lara

How to Forge a Victory out of a Defeat: Uses of War in Finnish Nation Building / Lyytikäinen, Pirjo

The Crusaders: Representations of the American Soldier in the Second World War American Novel / Martins, Isabel Oliveira

Making Violence Visible in Vietnam War Narratives: The Case of A Rumor of War / Rosso, Stefano

The Subversive and the Sublime: Aspects of the British, German and Portuguese Critical Reception of 'Anti-War' Films in the Aftermath of May '68 / Bär, Gerald

Editors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9781283857055

1283857057

9783110283037

3110283034

OCLC:

821198710