War isn't the only hell : a new reading of World War I American literature
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War isn't the only hell : a new reading of World War I American literature
Johns Hopkins University Press, c2018
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内容説明
A vigorous reappraisal of American literature inspired by the First World War.
American World War I literature has long been interpreted as an alienated outcry against modern warfare and government propaganda. This prevailing reading ignores the US army's unprecedented attempt during World War I to assign men-except, notoriously, African Americans-to positions and ranks based on merit. And it misses the fact that the culture granted masculinity only to combatants, while the noncombatant majority of doughboys experienced a different alienation: that of shame.
Drawing on military archives, current research by social-military historians, and his own readings of thirteen major writers, Keith Gandal seeks to put American literature written after the Great War in its proper context-as a response to the shocks of war and meritocracy. The supposedly antiwar texts of noncombatant Lost Generation authors Dos Passos, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cummings, and Faulkner addressed-often in coded ways-the noncombatant failure to measure up.
Gandal also examines combat-soldier writers William March, Thomas Boyd, Laurence Stallings, and Hervey Allen. Their works are considered straight-forward antiwar narratives, but they are in addition shaped by experiences of meritocratic recognition, especially meaningful for socially disadvantaged men. Gandal furthermore contextualizes the sole World War I novel by an African American veteran, Victor Daly, revealing a complex experience of both army discrimination and empowerment among the French. Finally, Gandal explores three women writers-Katherine Anne Porter, Willa Cather, and Ellen La Motte-who saw the war create frontline opportunities for women while allowing them to be arbiters of masculinity at home. Ultimately, War Isn't the Only Hell shows how American World War I literature registered the profound ways in which new military practices and a foreign war unsettled traditional American hierarchies of class, ethnicity, gender, and even race.
目次
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
1. Noncombatant Mobilization Wounds
2. The Horrors of War Mobilization
3. Saved by French Arrest and Imprisonment
4. Hemingway's Thrice-Told Tale
Part II
5. The Mobilization of Young Women
6. "A Miracle So Wide"
Part III
7. A War Hero in an Antiwar Tale?
8. The Intimate Seductions of Meritocracy
9. Not Only What You Would Expect
10. Too Glorifying to Tell
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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