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