Allegories of Violence: Tracing the Writings of War in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction

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Routledge, Dec 16, 2013 - Literary Criticism - 112 pages
Allegories of Violence demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if we understood war as discursive via late 20th Century novels of war.
 

Contents

War History and Narrative
3
Chapter II Vietnam and Narrative Reflexivity
11
Chapter III War as Narrative Discourse
35
Chapter IV Nuclear Ideology and Narrative Displacement
55
Chapter V War Sexuality and Narrative
75
Toward an American Resistance Literature
97
The Writing of War
121
Bibliography
127
Index
133
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Lidia Yuknavitch's work has appeared in the anthologies Representing Bisexualities (NYU Press, 1996) and Third Wave Agenda (University of Minnesota Press, 1997). She also writes short fiction and is the author of two short story collections. Her work has appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including Ms., The Iowa Review and Gargoyle. She currently teaches literature and fiction writing at San Diego State University.

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