Writing wars : authorship and American war fiction, WWI to present /

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"Who writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was simple: soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even scho...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eisler, David F., 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2022]
Colección:New American canon.
Temas:
1900-2099
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 21st century > History and criticism.
War stories, American > History and criticism.
War stories > Authorship.
Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Roman américain > 21e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Récits de guerre américains > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
HISTORY / Military / United States.
American fiction
War stories, American
War stories > Authorship
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • "Stick to her farms and farmer folk" : World War I and the origins of combat gnosticism
  • "Tell it like it was" : World War II and the institutional curation of memory
  • "You had to be there" : Vietnam and the veteran's consolidation of authority
  • "You don't have to be a veteran" : the all-volunteer force and the dispersion of authority
  • "The new battle" : the civil-military gap and the shock of coming home
  • "The other side of COIN" : counterinsurgency and the ethics of memory
  • "You volunteered to get screwed" : public trust and the literary representation of the professional military
  • Appendix: The American novels of Iraq and Afghanistan through 2020.

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