C. Bowen, C. Hoffmann (eds). Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision

Référence bibliographique : Claire Bowen and Catherine Hoffmann (eds). Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision, Brill-Rodopi, collection "Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature", 2018. EAN13 : 9789004353237.

Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present: Fields of Action, Fields of Vision. Edited by Claire Bowen and Catherine Hoffmann, University of Le Havre, France. Published by Brill-Rodopi, Leiden (Netherlands) February 2018. Price: 100 euros/$120

Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present examines representations of war in literature, film, photography, memorials, and the popular press. The volume breaks new ground in cutting across disciplinary boundaries and offering case studies on a wide variety of fields of vision and action, and types of conflict: from civil wars in the USA, Spain, Russia and the Congo to recent western interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the case of World War Two, Representing Wars emphasises idiosyncratic and non-western perspectives - specifically those of Japanese writers Hayashi and Ooka.

A central concern of the thirteen contributors has been to investigate the ethical and ideological implications of specific representational choices.

Contributors: Claire Bowen (Université du Havre-Normandie, France), Catherine Ann Collins (Willamette University, Salem USA), Marie-France Courriol (University of Cambridge UK/Université de Lille, France), Eliane Elmaleh (Université du Maine, France), Teresa Gibert (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, Madrid, Spain), William Gleeson (Université du Maine), Catherine Hoffmann (Université du Havre-Normandie, France), Sandrine Lascaux (Université du Havre-Normandie, France), Christopher Lloyd (Durham University, UK), Monica Michlin (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier 3, France), Guillaume Muller (Centre for Japanese Studies, INALCO, Paris, France), Misako Nemoto (Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan), Clément Sigalas (Université Paris-Est- Marne-la-Vallée, France).

Readership: Scholars and students in modern languages and literature, film studies, photography, cultural studies. Anyone interested in representations of distant or forgotten conflicts, and neglected aspects of major wars.

Contents:

Part 1 The Spectacle of War

1. Monica Michlin: Deconstructing the Spectacle of War? Brian de Palma's Redacted, Nick Broomfield's Battle for Haditha, Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah and the Iraq War

2; Sandrine Lascaux (trans. Claire Bowen): The War in Images: The Poetics of Plasticity in Juan Benet's Herrumbrosas lanzas

3. Clément Sigalas: The Second World War Seen from the Balcony: Representations of the Spectacle of War in the French Post-War Novel

Part 2 At a Distance from War

4. Catherine Hoffmann: The "Comic Opera" of Alied Intervention in Russia: Off-Staging War in William Gerhardie's Early Novels

5. Teresa Gibert: Margaret Atwood's Representation of Modern and Imaginary Warfare

6. Catherine Collins: Memory Keeping and Visual Narratives of Commemoration: Representing Interned Japanese Americans during World War II

Part 3 Bringing the War Home

7. Eliane Elmaleh: Martha Rosler, an American Artist at War with war

8. Marie-France Courriol: Conflicting Documentary Strategies and Italian Counter-propaganda in the Spanish Civil War

9. Christopher Lloyd: Revisiting the Congo's Forgotten Wars: Jean Lartéguy's Les Chimères noires

10. Claire Bowen: "A Boy and His Dog...": The War in Afghanistan and Storytelling

Part 4 Expriencing War and Bearing Witness

11. William Gleeson: Aphonic Images: Aurality and Silence in Civil War Photography

12. Guillaume Muller: Profiles of War by Hayashi Fusao: A Writer's Approach to War

13; Misako Nemoto: Ooka Shohei's Democratization of the Self

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