Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict

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Plots of War

Modern Narratives of Conflict

Edited by: Isabel Capeloa Gil and Adriana Martins

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2012

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Volume 2 | Culture & Conflict

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Plots of War: Modern Narratives of Conflict discusses the dynamics of change and transformation that underlie the troubled project of modernity and shows how deeply it has been shaped by war and violence. The narrative of war, the emplotment of violence in historic and mainly in symbolic terms, is deeply embedded in the construction of individual and collective memories, but it also helps to shape the mediation of future conflicts.What is ultimately at stake here is the complex figuration and mediation of the violence of war in ever more hyper-mediated ways with direct consequences to the production of identities and processes of cultural memory.

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Isabel Capeloa Gil and Adriana Martins, Universidade Catolica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Introduction: Plots of War Adriana Martins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	8
I. Post-memory Narratives
The Children of the Colonial War: Post-Memory and Representations Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, Roberto Vecchi and António Sousa Ribeiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	11
The (In)Visibility of Colonial Wars in Mia Couto and J. M. Coetzee Patrícia Vieira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	24
Public Memories in Italy: Contemporary Narratives about the Italian Colonial Past Paolo Jedlowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	32
Remembering the Spanish Republican Exile: An Audiovisual Return Caroline Rothauge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	40
II. Othering the Battleground
The (In)Visibility of War in British Novels of the Twentieth Century Vera Nünning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	63
Unmasking Violence and Domination: Mechtilde Lichnowsky and the 20th Century (Word) Wars Anne Martina Emonts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
Porn, Rape and the Fall of the Third Reich: On Thor Kunkel’s Novel Endstufe Júlia Garraio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
Palestinian Women’s Bodies as a Battlefield Shahd Wadi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
III. Emplotting the Nation
Addressing Wounds: Whitman Engaged Lara Duarte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
How to Forge a Victory out of a Defeat: Uses of War in Finnish Nation Building Pirjo Lyytikäinen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
The Crusaders: Representations of the American Soldier in the Second World War American Novel Isabel Oliveira Martins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
Making Violence Visible in Vietnam War Narratives: The Case of A Rumor of War Stefano Rosso Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	168
The Subversive and the Sublime: Aspects of the British, German and Portuguese Critical Reception of ‘Anti-War’ Films in the Aftermath of May ’68 Gerald Bär Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Editors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215

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eBook published on:

October 30, 2012

eBook ISBN:

9783110283037

Hardcover published on:

October 15, 2012

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110282870

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Front matter:

6

Main content:

219

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110283037

eBook ISBN: 9783110283037

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110282870

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War; Violence; Conflict; Media; Narrative

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Scholars of Literary Studes, Cultural History

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