9 Emmy Andriesse, Dutch Wartime Photographer: The Hunger Winter of 1945

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Preface: Bearing Witness xiii
6. For What? An Introduction 1
7. Exploring the Roots of War: Performance, History, Poetry, and Language
8. Warplay: Spectacle, Performance, and (Dis)Simulation of Combat 17
9. Understanding the Motivation to Enlist 28
10. Canadian Poets on War 41
11. Metaphor, Metalepsis, and the Colonial Library: Deconstructing Inyenzi and Ubuhake Metaphors in Gil Courtemanche’s A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali and Julien Pierce’s Speak, Rwanda 53
12. Bearing Witness to War and Peace: The Vocabularies of Literature, Art, and Photography
13. The Georgics of War and Peace: Following Claude Simon, Nobel laureate 69
14. “Expressionist – Artillerist”: “Poet” and “Soldier” as Conflicting Role Models in German Avant–Garde Poetry from the First World War 79
15. Above or Below Ground? Depicting Corpses in First and Second World War Official Canadian War Art 93
16. Bearing Witness and Cultural Memory: The Wreckage, Burning Vision, and War in the Pacific 107
17. Emmy Andriesse, Dutch Wartime Photographer: The Hunger Winter of 1945 121
18. Taking Some Lessons from History: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Search for Peace
19. Underlining the Lies Surrounding the “Holy War” and “Infinite Justice” 147
20. Comparing South Africa’s Negotiated Settlement with Elusive Peacemaking in Israel/Palestine 163
21. Northern War Stories: The Dene, the Archive, and Canada’s Atomic Modernity 174
22. For What? Artists’ Reflections on Film, Poetry, and Music
23. Perspectives on War 189
24. On Active Service, and Let Us Wake From This Dream: A Poem and a String Quartet 204
25. Notes 213
26. Bibliography 245
27. Contributors 261
28. Index 267