LEADER 04440nam 2200673 450 001 9910461052203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-252-09785-8 035 $a(CKB)3710000000529455 035 $a(EBL)4306054 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001590110 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16284943 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001590110 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)13869338 035 $a(PQKB)10221809 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4306054 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001652073 035 $a(OCoLC)931879766 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse47773 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4306054 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11137419 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL878780 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000529455 100 $a20160119h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWaging war on war $epeacefighting in American literature /$fGiorgio Mariani 210 1$aUrbana, [Illinois] :$cUniversity of Illinois Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (297 p.) 225 1 $aGlobal Studies of the United States 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-252-03975-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPart I. Theory -- Part II. Readings. 330 $a"While war is considered to play a fundamental role in the United States' conception of itself, American war literature is usually read as being anti-war. This is to a large extent a fate shared by all modern war literature, which is seen as engaged almost by default in a critique of the madness and meaninglessness of military conflict. However, rigorous discussions of what exactly makes a text anti-war are rare. Even though anti-war literature is sometimes considered a literary genre of its own, no sustained attempts at identifying its formal or philosophical features have been made. This book argues that there are objective reasons for this impasse and discusses an impressive and well-chosen range of texts: Joel Barlow's The Columbiad, Melville's Moby-Dick, Ellen La Motte's The Backwash of War, William Faulkner's A Fable, Tim O'Brien's 'How To Tell A True War Story', Maxine Hong Kingston's The Fifth Book of Peace, poetry by Brian Turner and Helen Benedict's Sand Queen"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"The notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States' idea of itself obscures the rich--and by no means nai;ve--seam of anti-war thinking that winds through American culture. Non-violent resistance, far from being a philosophy of passive dreamers, instead embodies Ralph Waldo Emerson's belief that peace "can never be defended, never be executed, by cowards." Giorgio Mariani rigorously engages with the essential question of what makes a text explicitly anti-war. Ranging from Emerson and Joel Barlow to Maxine Hong Kingston and Tim O'Brien, Waging War on War explores why sustained attempts at identifying the anti-war text's formal and philosophical features seem to always end at an impasse. Mariani moves a step beyond to construct a theoretical model that invites new inquiries into America's nonviolent, nonconformist tradition even as it challenges the ways we study U.S. warmaking and the cultural reactions to it. In the process, he shows how the ideal of nonviolence and a dislike of war have been significant, if nonhegemonic, features of American culture since the nation's early days. Ambitious and nuanced, Waging War on War at last defines anti-war literature while exploring the genre's role in an assertive peacefighting project that offered--and still offers--alternatives to violence"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aGlobal studies of the United States. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWar and literature$zUnited States 606 $aPeace in literature 606 $aPeace movements in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWar and literature 615 0$aPeace in literature. 615 0$aPeace movements in literature. 676 $a810.9/358 700 $aMariani$b Giorgio$f1954-$0279641 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461052203321 996 $aWaging war on war$92035579 997 $aUNINA