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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792063603321

Titolo

Men after war / / edited by Stephen McVeigh and Nicola Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-135-96465-3

0-203-38362-1

1-299-28031-5

1-135-96458-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in gender and history ; ; 16

Altri autori (Persone)

CooperNicola <1967->

McVeighStephen

Disciplina

305.9/0697

Soggetti

Veterans - History

Veterans - Social conditions

Veterans in literature

War and society

Masculinity in literature

Masculinity in popular culture

War in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Stephen McVeigh and Nicola Cooper -- Continuing to serve: representations of the elderly veteran soldier in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Caroline Nielsen -- Veterans, disability, and society in the early United States / Daniel Blackie -- Confederate defeat and the construction of lost cause nostalgia / David Anderson -- Stoics: creating identities at St Dunstan's 1914-20 / Julie Anderson -- Not another hero: the Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies' creation of the heroic company man / Wendy Gagen -- Italian disabled veterans between experience and representation / Maria Salvante -- The detective as veteran: recasting American hard-boiled writing as a literature of traumatic war experience / Sarah Trott -- "A fabulous potency": masculinity in Icelandic occupation literature / Daisy Neijmann -- Trauma in Bosnia:



European film and the peacekeeper's dilemma / Ian Roberts -- Weapons of war: masculinity and sexual violence in Pat Barker's Double vision / Sophie Smith.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an innovative collection of original research which analyzes the many varieties of post-conflict masculinity. Exploring topics such as physical disability and psychological trauma, and masculinity and sexuality in relation to the ""feminizing"" contexts of wounding and desertion, this volume draws together leading academics in the fields of gender, history, literature, and disability studies, in an inter- and multi-disciplinary exploration of the conditions and circumstances that men face in the aftermath of war.