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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807380503321

Titolo

Plots of war : modern narratives of conflict / / edited by Isabel Capeloa Gil, Adriana Martins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, 2012

ISBN

1-283-85705-7

3-11-028303-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Culture & conflict ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

GilIsabel Capeloa

MartinsAdriana Alves de Paula <1967->

Disciplina

809/.93353

809.93358

Soggetti

War and literature

Narration (Rhetoric)

Collective memory and literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction: Plots of War / Martins, Adriana -- Works Cited -- I. Post-memory Narratives -- The Children of the Colonial War: Post-Memory and Representations / Ribeiro, Margarida Calafate / Vecchi, Roberto / Ribeiro, António Sousa -- The (In)Visibility of Colonial Wars in Mia Couto and J. M. Coetzee / Vieira, Patrícia -- Public Memories in Italy: Contemporary Narratives about the Italian Colonial Past / Jedlowski, Paolo -- Remembering the Spanish Republican Exile: An Audiovisual Return / Rothauge, Caroline -- II. Othering the Battleground -- The (In)Visibility of War in British Novels of the Twentieth Century / Nünning, Vera -- Unmasking Violence and Domination: Mechtilde Lichnowsky and the 20th Century (Word) Wars / Emonts, Anne Martina -- Porn, Rape and the Fall of the Third Reich: On Thor Kunkel's Novel Endstufe / Garraio, Júlia -- Palestinian Women's Bodies as a Battlefield / Wadi, Shahd -- III. Emplotting the Nation -- Addressing Wounds: Whitman Engaged / Duarte, Lara -- How to Forge a Victory out of a Defeat: Uses of War in Finnish Nation Building / Lyytikäinen, Pirjo -- The Crusaders: Representations of the American Soldier in the Second World War American Novel / Martins, Isabel



Oliveira -- Making Violence Visible in Vietnam War Narratives: The Case of A Rumor of War / Rosso, Stefano -- The Subversive and the Sublime: Aspects of the British, German and Portuguese Critical Reception of 'Anti-War' Films in the Aftermath of May '68 / Bär, Gerald -- Editors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict discusses the dynamics of change and transformation that underlie the troubled project of modernity and shows how deeply it has been shaped by war and violence. The narrative of war, the employment of violence in historic and mainly in symbolic terms, is deeply embedded in the construction of individual and collective memories, but it also helps to shape the mediation of future conflicts. What is ultimately at stake here is the complex figuration and mediation of the violence of war in ever more hyper-mediated ways with direct consequences to the product