Innocence and Loss

Representations of War and National Identity in the United States
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4438-5647-8
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten

A fierce national outcry for righteously waging war has long dominated American culture. From at least the wildly popular Spanish-American War and the US military invasion of the Philippines that infuriated Mark Twain, right up to the current Global War on Terrorism, this is a deadly, dark current coursing throughout American history. Meanwhile, dissenting analyses of the “patriotic gore” have until recently been paid scant attention in the popular media.

Delving into this history, this probing collection of essays explores ways in which “the compulsive redeployment of innocence” in the launching, cheering, and retelling of America’s wars “endlessly defers a national reckoning,” as the editors astutely state in their introduction. The works in this collection reflect an effort to add more voices where they are desperately needed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rísquez, Cristina Alsina

Stretch, Cynthia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Cristina Alsina Rísquez has been teaching 20th-century US history and literature to graduate and undergraduate students in the English Department at the Universitat de Barcelona since 1994. Her most recent scholarship examines the work of the contemporary novelist Tim O’Brien, focusing on the formal and ideological complexities of the representation of “truth” in fiction. She is one of the researchers in the group “Dona i Literatura” (Women and Literature), which hosts the UNESCO Chair “Women, Development, and Culture” at the Universitat de Barcelona. She is currently co-directing the journal Lectora: Revista de dones i textualitat, and is the Secretary for the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS). In 2008, she spent a semester as a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Southern Connecticut State University.

Cynthia Stretch is a Professor of English at Southern Connecticut State University where she teaches 19th- and early 20th-century US literature. Her research centers on representations of class among politically committed authors on the left. Her work has appeared in Disclosing Intertextualities: The Short Stories, Plays, and Novels of Susan Glaspell and in American Literary Realism. Stretch was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at the Universitat de Barcelona in 2005.