Yuknavitch Allegories of Violence

Tracing the Writings of War in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-70713-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 112 Seiten

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

Allegories of Violence demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if we understood war as discursive via late 20th Century novels of war.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yuknavitch, Lidia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: War, the Serial
I. Introduction: War, History and Narrative
II.Vietnam and Narrative Reflexivity
III. War as Narrative Discourse
IV. Nuclear Ideology and Narrative Displacement
V. War, Sexuality, and Narrative
VI. Narrative Fragmentation: Toward an American Resistance Literature
VII. Conclusion: The Writing of War
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Lidia Yuknavitch's work has appeared in the anthologies Representing Bisexualities (NYU Press, 1996) and Third Wave Agenda (University of Minnesota Press, 1997). She also writes short fiction and is the author of two short story collections. Her work has appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including Ms., The Iowa Review and Gargoyle. She currently teaches literature and fiction writing at San Diego State University.