Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present : Fields of Action, Fields of Vision.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (246 pages)
- Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Series ; v.85 .
- Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature Series .
Intro -- Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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 -- 2 The War in Images: The Poetics of Plasticity in Juan Benet's Herrumbrosas lanzas -- 3 The Second World War Seen from the Balcony: Representations of the Spectacle of War in the French Post-War Novel -- 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 -- 5 Margaret Atwood's Representation of Modern and Imaginary Warfare -- 6 Memory Keeping and Visual Narratives of Commemoration: Representing Interned Japanese Americans during World War II -- Part 3: Bringing the War Home -- 7 Martha Rosler, an American Artist at War with War -- 8 Conflicting Documentary Strategies and Italian Counter-propaganda in the Spanish Civil War -- 9 Revisiting the Congo's Forgotten Wars: Jean Lartéguy's Les Chimères noires and the Secession of Katanga -- 10 "A Boy and His Dog…": The War in Afghanistan and Storytelling -- Part 4: Experiencing War and Bearing Witness -- 11 Aphonic Images: Aurality and Silence in Civil War Photographs -- 12 Profiles of War by Hayashi Fusao: A Writer's Approach to War -- 13 Ōoka Shōhei's Democratization of the Self -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present examines representations of a wide geographical variety of wars in literature, film, photography, memorials, and the popular press.