Embedded on the home front : where military and civilian lives converge / edited by Joan Dixon and Barb Howard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dixon, Joan, editor.

Howard, Barb, 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian prose literature--21st century.

Canadian prose literature.

War in literature.

War and society.

Peace-building, Canadian, in literature.

Veterans in literature.

Soldiers in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Victoria : Heritage House, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Home front. It's hard to separate that word from war. In the First and Second World Wars, the home front was a clear entity and location: if you weren't on the frontlines, you were on the home front. But during current times of peacekeeping, peacemaking and armed interventions, the notion of home front seems to comprise only those who are in some way directly affected by the military: family and friends of soldiers, returning soldiers or ex-soldiers--an invisible group camouflaged by everyday jobs and activities. Editors Barb Howard and Joan Dixon have compiled insightful essays and reflections from 14 writers, including Melanie Murray, Scott Waters, Ryan Flavelle and Chris Turner. All have found themselves, at one time or another, embedded on the home front. And even though each experience is unique and comes from a single perspective, common motifs surface: family, fate, death and memory. This anthology captures triumphs, incredible fortitude and humour, often in the face of grief, as well as the complicated logic, fears, anger and other everyday realities that are part of home-front life. omplicated logic, fears, anger and other everyday realities that are part of home-front life.omplicated logic, fears, anger and other everyday realities that are part of home-front life.omplicated logic, fears, anger and other everyday realities that are part of home-front life.

Contents:

Yellow ribbons / Nancy McAllister

In one of the stars I shall be living / Melanie Murray

We are (a military) family / Kelly Thompson

Falling for a soldier : the battle lines of a love triangle / Shaun Hunter

Coming home to a new world / Ryan Flavelle

Snapshots : life, peace and coffee on the home front / Ellen Kelly

The reservist / Barb Howard

Hostage to fate / Michael Hornburt

Reconstruction tour / Scott Waters

Finding my way bac to some kind of normal / Jill Kruse

The perils of war and mother-son relationships / Joan Dixon

Embed / S.M. Steele

Terribly beautiful : remembrance and remembering / Kari Strutt

Playing ball : random notes from behind the front lines of the Pax Americana / Chris Turner.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 9, 2017).

ISBN:

1-927051-58-4

1-927051-67-3

OCLC:

852803518