Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Back to peace : reconciliation and retribution in the postwar period
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- edited by Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
-
- vii, 312 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780268044527, 026804452X
- OCLC
- ocm77485723
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- pt. 1. Return of the combatant. Anticipating commemoration : the post-World War I era as British poets imagined it / Brian Dillon -- The war veteran in 'Tender is the night' / William Blazek -- Coming home defeated : soldiers and the transition from war to peace in post-World War II Japan / Beatrice Trefalt -- 'Battle dress to sports suit; overalls to frocks' : American and British veterans confront demobilization / Mary Anne Schofield -- 'When all the wars are over' : the Utopian impulses of Toni Morrison's postwar fiction / Jennifer Terry -- pt. 2. Reconciliation. Searching for peace : John Dryden's 'Troilus and Cressida or Truth Found too Late' / Janet Dawson -- Romances of reconstruction : the postwar marriage plot in Rebecca Harding Davis and John William De Forest / Don Dingledine -- The unpleasantness at the Chandrapore Club, and the Mayapore Club, and the Jummapur Club : Forster, Scott, and Stoppard and the end of empire / Laurie Kaplan -- Community and harmony in Charlotte Eilenberg's post-Holocaust play 'The Lucky Ones' / Claire Tylee -- Vietnamese exile writers : displacement, identity, the past, and the future / Renny Christopher -- pt. 3. Wars within peace. Seeing the war through cut-off triangles : H.D. and Gertrude Stein / Kathy J. Phillips -- The forgotten brigade : foreign women writers and the end of the Spanish Civil War / Aranazu Usandizaga -- Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye : representations of war brides in Canadian fiction and drama by Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Norah Harding, Margaret Hollingsworth, Joyce Marshall, Suzette Mayr, Aritha van Herk, and Rachel Wyatt / Donna Coates -- Ta(l)king war into peace : Marguerite Duras's 'La douleur,' history and her stories / Camila Loew
Subjects
- Peace in literature.
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- Peace -- Social aspects.
- Culture conflict in literature.
- Social conflict in literature.
- Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
- Soldiers in literature.
- War and literature.