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Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period - Softcover

 
9780268044527: Back to Peace: Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period
Softcover
ISBN 10: 026804452X ISBN 13: 9780268044527
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Scholars have rarely studied a society’s return to peace as a cultural category, as a formative experience common to many lives at any time in history. This collection of original essays by historians and literary critics explores the complex and difficult question of how a culture does, in fact, “return to peace” after a war. Combining analyses of both literary texts and historical sources, the contributors focus on the cultural, political, and personal implications of returning to peace.

The volume begins with an introductory essay by its editors, arguing for the need to consider “back to peace” as a significant phenomenon, not just a brief step between war and peace. The first section of the volume, “Return of the Combatant,” begins with an essay describing how soldiers in the trenches have imagined what civilian life would be like. This, and the four other essays―on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night, on Japanese POWs, on the return from World War II, and from Vietnam―illustrate how violence, social ostracism, and general bewilderment of soldiers follow them home from war.

The five essays in the second section analyze literary texts to reveal the fate of civilians in postwar situations: England and the United States after their respective Civil Wars, Anglo-Indian relations, Germans in postwar Britain, and contemporary Vietnamese American writers. Recurrent themes are clashes of culture, social tensions, and displacement. The four essays in the third section focus on the conflicted nature of the “back to peace” experience in the work of H.D. and Gertrude Stein, in women’s writing on the Spanish Civil War, in the stories of war brides, and in the work of Marguerite Duras. These essays demonstrate how literary and historical texts deepen our understanding of the return to peace after war.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Aránzazu Usandizaga is professor of American and English literature at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. He is coeditor of Dressing Up for War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War.



Andrew Monnickendam is professor of English literature at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. He is coeditor of Dressing Up for War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War.

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Verlag
University of Notre Dame Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
026804452X
ISBN 13 
9780268044527
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
320
Herausgeber
Usandizaga Aranzazu, Monnickendam Andrew
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