Dressing up for War

Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1367-4
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 292 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 671 g

Reihe: Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Usandizaga, Aránzazu

Monnickendam, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
I. 1914-1918 THE WAR TO CHANGE ALL WORDS
1. Laurie KAPLAN: “How Funny I Must Look with my Breeches Pulled Down to my Knees”: Nurses’ Memoirs and Autobiographies from The Great War
2. Peter BUITENHUIS: The Perversion of Motherhood: the Trope of the Son at the Front
3. Caroline ZILBOORG: The Center of the Cyclone: Gender and Genre in H.D.’s War Novel
4. María ÁNGELES TODA: Deadly Marriages: Masculinity and the Pleasures of Violence in H.R. Haggard’s Romances of Adventures
5. António LOPES: (Un)masking the Self: the Hero in Edwardian Popular Fiction
II. DRESS REHEARSALS: EARLIER PERFORMANCES AND SCENARIOS
6. Jane E. SCHULTZ: Performing Genres: Sarah Edmonds’ Nurse and Spy and the Case of the Cross-Dressed Text
7. Ana María SÁNCHEZ-ARCE: The Prop They Need: Undressing and the Politics of War in Beryl Bainbridge’s Master Georgie
8. Renate PETERS: The Metamorphoses of Judith in Literature and Art: War by Other Means
9. Tabea Alexa LINHARD: Adelita’s Radical Act of Counter-Writing
10. Simon BARKER: Dressing up for War: Militarism in Early Modern Culture
11. Joan CURBET: Repressing the Amazon: Cross-Dressing and Militarism in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
III. MODERN TIMES: REDRESSING OLD WOUNDS
12. Jenny HARTLEY: Warriors and Healers, Impostors and Mothers: Betty Miller’s On the Side of the Angels
13. Maria Antònio OLIVER: “Sangre Fértil”/Fertile Blood: Migratory Crossings, War and Healing in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera
14. Lorrie GOLDENSOHN: Towards a Non-Combatant War Poetry: Jarrell, Moore, Bishop
15. Simon PHILO: Breaking the Silence, Crossing the Line: Women Veteran Poets of the Vietnam War
16. Kathleen BRADY, John BRIGGS, Edward A. HAGAN: The Enemy is ‘Us’: Misconstruing the Real war in The Deer Hunter and Other Post-Vietnam War Narratives
17. Claire TYLEE: “Name upon Name”: Myth, Ritual and the Past in Recent Irish Plays Referring to the Great War
Notes on Contributors