Representing wars from 1860 to the present : fields of action, fields of vision

Author(s)

• Bowen, Claire
• Hoffmann, Catherine

Bibliographic Information

Representing wars from 1860 to the present : fields of action, fields of vision

edited by Claire Bowen, Catherine Hoffmann

（Textxet : studies in comparative literature, v. 85）

Brill, c2018

• : hardback

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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, Eliane Elmaleh, Teresa Gibert, William Gleeson, Catherine Hoffmann, Sandrine Lascaux, Christopher Lloyd, Monica Michlin, Guillaume Muller, Misako Nemoto, Clement Sigalas.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Contributors Introduction Part 1: The Spectacle of War 1 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 2 The War in Images: The Poetics of Plasticity in Juan Benet's Herrumbrosas lanzas Sandrine Lascaux and Trans. Claire Bowen 3 The Second World War Seen from the Balcony: Representations of the Spectacle of War in the French Post-War Novel Clement Sigalas Part 2: At a Distance from War 4 The "Comic Opera" of the Allied Intervention in Russia: Off-Staging War in William Gerhardie's Early Novels Catherine Hoffmann 5 Margaret Atwood's Representation of Modern and Imaginary Warfare Teresa Gibert 6 Memory Keeping and Visual Narratives of Commemoration: Representing Interned Japanese Americans during World War ii Catherine Collins Part 3: Bringing the War Home 7 Martha Rosler, an American Artist at War with War Eliane Elmaleh 8 Conflicting Documentary Strategies and Italian Counter-propaganda in the Spanish Civil War Marie-France Courriol 9 Revisiting the Congo's Forgotten Wars: Jean Larteguy's Les Chimeres noires and the Secession of Katanga Christopher Lloyd 10 "A Boy and His Dog...": The War in Afghanistan and Storytelling Claire Bowen Part 4: Experiencing War and Bearing Witness 11 Aphonic Images: Aurality and Silence in Civil War Photography William Gleeson 12 Profiles of War by Hayashi Fusao: A Writer's Approach to War Guillaume Muller 13 Ooka Shohei's Democratization of the Self Misako Nemoto Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

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Details

• NCID: BB27698092
• ISBN:
  • 9789004353237
• LCCN: 2017059326
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 234 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PN56.W3
  • DC23 : 809/.933581
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : War in literature
  • LCSH : War in mass media
  • LCSH : War in art
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA25187084