Buch, Englisch, Band 179, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 572 g
Reihe: Costerus New Series
Buch, Englisch, Band 179, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 572 g
Reihe: Costerus New Series
ISBN: 978-90-420-2520-2
Verlag: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
To this end, Embattled Home Fronts examines both canonized and marginalized US American World War I novels within the context of contemporaneous debates over shifting class, gender, and race relations. The book contends that American literary representations of the Great War are shaped less by universal insights into modern society’s self-destructiveness than by concerted efforts to fashion class-, gender-, and race-specific experiences of warfare in ways that stabilize and heighten political group identities. In moving beyond the customary focus on ironic war representations, Embattled Home Fronts illustrates that the representational and ideological battles fought within American World War I literature not only shed light on the emergence of powerful identity-political concepts such as the New Woman and the New Negro, but also speak to the reappearance of utopian, communitarian, and social protest fictions in the early 1930s.
This study Embattled Home Fronts provides a new understanding of the relationship between war literature and home front politics that should be of interest to students and scholars working from a variety of disciplines and perspectives
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
Weitere Infos & Material
Acknowledgements
Preface
Modern Memory Revisited: An Introduction
I. World War I as Liberal Protest Novel
Randolph Bourne, Progressivism, and the Protest Novel
John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, and Humble Protest
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, and Personal War
II. World War I as Proletarian Bildungsroman
Specters of Revolution and the Proletarian Bildungsroman
Upton Sinclair, Jimmie Higgins, and Equivocal Commitments
William Cunningham, The Green Corn Rebellion, and Revolutionary Memory
III. World War I as Feminist Utopia
Pacifism, Resistance, and Feminist Utopias
Dorothy Canfield, Home Fires in France, and Female-Centered Communities
Gertrude Atherton, The White Morning, and the War between the Sexes
IV. World War I as Race Romance
Race Consciousness and the Romantic Quest
Sarah Lee Brown Fleming, Hope’s Highway, and the End of Racial Strife
Walter F. White, The Fire in the Flint, and Persistent Struggle
Bibliography
Index