Introduction: Plots of War

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Plots of War 1
4. Works Cited 8
5. I. Post-memory Narratives
6. The Children of the Colonial War: Post-Memory and Representations 11
7. The (In)Visibility of Colonial Wars in Mia Couto and J. M. Coetzee 24
8. Public Memories in Italy: Contemporary Narratives about the Italian Colonial Past 32
9. Remembering the Spanish Republican Exile: An Audiovisual Return 40
10. II. Othering the Battleground
11. The (In)Visibility of War in British Novels of the Twentieth Century 63
12. Unmasking Violence and Domination: Mechtilde Lichnowsky and the 20th Century (Word) Wars 87
13. Porn, Rape and the Fall of the Third Reich: On Thor Kunkel’s Novel Endstufe 99
14. Palestinian Women’s Bodies as a Battlefield 114
15. III. Emplotting the Nation
16. Addressing Wounds: Whitman Engaged 127
17. How to Forge a Victory out of a Defeat: Uses of War in Finnish Nation Building 139
18. The Crusaders: Representations of the American Soldier in the Second World War American Novel 157
19. Making Violence Visible in Vietnam War Narratives: The Case of A Rumor of War 168
20. The Subversive and the Sublime: Aspects of the British, German and Portuguese Critical Reception of ‘Anti-War’ Films in the Aftermath of May ’68 177
21. Editors 211
22. Index 215