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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Usandizaga, Aránzazu, editor.

Monnickendam, Andrew, editor.

Series:

Rodopi perspectives on modern literature ; Volume 24.

Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature Series ; Volume 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Editions Rodopi B.V., [2001]

Summary:

From the contents: Laurie KAPLAN: How funny I must look with my breeches pulled down to my knees: nurses' memoirs and autobiographies from the Great war. - Peter BUITENHUIS: The perversion of motherhood: the trope of the son at the front. - Renate PETERS: The metamorphoses of Judith in literature and art: war by other means. - Lorrie GOLDENSOHN: Towards a non-combatant war poetry: Jarrell, Moore, Bishop.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Usandizaga, Aránzazu Dressing up for War

ISBN:

9789004489820

9004489827

OCLC:

605478983

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004489820 DOI