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

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Author:   Claire Bowen ,  Catherine Hoffmann
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   85
Weight:   0.532kg
ISBN:  

9789004353237

ISBN 10:   9004353232
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   15 February 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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  Clément 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  Éliane 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 Lartéguy’s Les Chimères 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 Ōoka Shōhei’s Democratization of the Self  Misako Nemoto Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

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Claire Bowen, Ph.D (1979), Lancaster University, Senior Lecturer in English at Le Havre University, now retired, has published on graphic and photographic representations of modern and contemporary conflicts, especially the First World War. Catherine Hoffmann, doctorate (1995), Grenoble University, Senior Lecturer in English at Le Havre University, now retired, has published many articles on twentieth century and contemporary English and Irish literature, in France, Britain and the USA (Style, Dalkey Archive).

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