Representing wars from 1860 to the present [e-book] : fields of action, fields of vision / edited by Claire Bowen, Catherine Hoffmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowen, Claire.

Hoffmann, Catherine.

Series:

Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature 85.

Textxet : studies in comparative literature, 0927-5754 ; v. 85

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 234 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill Rodopi.

Summary:

Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present examines representations of war in literature, film, photography, memorials, and the popular press. The volume breaks new ground in cutting across disciplinary boundaries and offering case studies on a wide variety of fields of vision and action, and types of conflict: from civil wars in the USA, Spain, Russia and the Congo to recent western interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the case of World War Two, Representing Wars emphasises idiosyncratic and non-western perspectives – specifically those of Japanese writers Hayashi and Ooka. A central concern of the thirteen contributors has been to investigate the ethical and ideological implications of specific representational choices. Contributors are: Claire Bowen, Catherine Ann Collins, Marie-France Courriol, Éliane Elmaleh, Teresa Gibert, William Gleeson, Catherine Hoffmann, Sandrine Lascaux, Christopher Lloyd, Monica Michlin, Guillaume Muller, Misako Nemoto, Clément Sigalas.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction / Claire Bowen and Catherine Hoffmann

The Spectacle of War

Deconstructing the Spectacle of War? Brian de Palma’s Redacted, Nick Broomfield’s Battle for Haditha, Paul Haggis’s In the Valley of Elah and the Iraq War / Monica Michlin

The War in Images: The Poetics of Plasticity in Juan Benet’s Herrumbrosas lanzas / Sandrine Lascaux and Claire Bowen (trans.)

The Second World War Seen from the Balcony: Representations of the Spectacle of War in the French Post-war Novel / Clément Sigalas

At a Distance from War

The “Comic Opera” of the Allied Intervention in Russia: Off-staging War in William Gerhardie’s Early Novels / Catherine Hoffmann

Margaret Atwood’s Representation of Modern and Imaginary Warfare / Teresa Gibert

Memory Keeping and Visual Narratives of Commemoration: Representing Interned Japanese Americans during World War ii / Catherine Collins

Bringing the War Home

Martha Rosler, an American Artist at War with War / Éliane Elmaleh

Conflicting Documentary Strategies and Italian Counter-propaganda in the Spanish Civil War / Marie-France Courriol

Revisiting the Congo’s Forgotten Wars: Jean Lartéguy’s Les Chimères noires and the Secession of Katanga / Christopher Lloyd

“A Boy and His Dog…”: The War in Afghanistan and Storytelling / Claire Bowen

Experiencing War and Bearing Witness

Aphonic Images: Aurality and Silence in Civil War Photographs / William Gleeson

Profiles of War by Hayashi Fusao: A Writer’s Approach to War / Guillaume Muller

Ōoka Shōhei’s Democratization of the Self / Misako Nemoto

Conclusion / Catherine Hoffmann.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-230) and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-35324-0

OCLC:

1019663382

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004353244 DOI