Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present (Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature, 85)

by: Bowen Claire (Author)

Publisher: Brill | Rodopi

Edition: Lam

Publication Date: 2018/2/15

Language: English

Print Length: 246 pages

ISBN-10: 9004353232

ISBN-13: 9789004353237

Book 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 weste interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the case of World War Two, Representing Wars emphasises idiosyncratic and non-weste perspectives - specifically those of Japanese writers Hayashi and Ooka.A central conce 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.

About the Author

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 weste interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the case of World War Two, Representing Wars emphasises idiosyncratic and non-weste perspectives - specifically those of Japanese writers Hayashi and Ooka.A central conce 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.