Representing Wars from 1860 to the Present

Fields of Action, Fields of Vision

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Volume Editors:
Claire Bowen
and
Catherine Hoffmann
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 are: Claire Bowen, Catherine Ann Collins, Marie-France Courriol, Éliane Elmaleh, Teresa Gibert, William Gleeson, Catherine Hoffmann, Sandrine Lascaux, Christopher Lloyd, Monica Michlin, Guillaume Muller, Misako Nemoto, Clément Sigalas.
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2018
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Front Matter
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 The Spectacle of War
Chapter 1 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
Chapter 2 The War in Images: The Poetics of Plasticity in Juan Benet’s Herrumbrosas lanzas
Chapter 3 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
Chapter 4 The “Comic Opera” of the Allied Intervention in Russia: Off-staging War in William Gerhardie’s Early Novels
Chapter 5 Margaret Atwood’s Representation of Modern and Imaginary Warfare
Chapter 6 Memory Keeping and Visual Narratives of Commemoration: Representing Interned Japanese Americans during World War ii
Part 3 Bringing the War Home
Chapter 7 Martha Rosler, an American Artist at War with War
Chapter 8 Conflicting Documentary Strategies and Italian Counter-propaganda in the Spanish Civil War
Chapter 9 Revisiting the Congo’s Forgotten Wars: Jean Lartéguy’s Les Chimères noires and the Secession of Katanga
Chapter 10 “A Boy and His Dog…”: The War in Afghanistan and Storytelling
Part 4 Experiencing War and Bearing Witness
Chapter 11 Aphonic Images: Aurality and Silence in Civil War Photographs
Chapter 12 Profiles of War by Hayashi Fusao: A Writer’s Approach to War
Chapter 13 Ōoka Shōhei’s Democratization of the Self
Conclusion
Claire Bowen, Ph.D (1979), Lancaster University, Senior Lecturer in English at Le Havre University, now retired, has published on graphic and photographic representations of modern and contemporary conflicts, especially the First World War.

Catherine Hoffmann, doctorate (1995), Grenoble University, Senior Lecturer in English at Le Havre University, now retired, has published many articles on twentieth century and contemporary English and Irish literature, in France, Britain and the USA (Style, Dalkey Archive).


Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Contributors

Introduction

Part 1: The Spectacle of War


1 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
 Monica Michlin
2 The War in Images: The Poetics of Plasticity in Juan Benet’s Herrumbrosas lanzas
 Sandrine Lascaux and Trans. Claire Bowen
3 The Second World War Seen from the Balcony: Representations of the Spectacle of War in the French Post-War Novel
 Clément Sigalas

Part 2: At a Distance from War


4 The “Comic Opera” of the Allied Intervention in Russia: Off-Staging War in William Gerhardie’s Early Novels
 Catherine Hoffmann
5 Margaret Atwood’s Representation of Modern and Imaginary Warfare
 Teresa Gibert
6 Memory Keeping and Visual Narratives of Commemoration: Representing Interned Japanese Americans during World War ii
 Catherine Collins

Part 3: Bringing the War Home


7 Martha Rosler, an American Artist at War with War
 Éliane Elmaleh
8 Conflicting Documentary Strategies and Italian Counter-propaganda in the Spanish Civil War
 Marie-France Courriol
9 Revisiting the Congo’s Forgotten Wars: Jean Lartéguy’s Les Chimères noires and the Secession of Katanga
 Christopher Lloyd
10 “A Boy and His Dog…”: The War in Afghanistan and Storytelling
 Claire Bowen

Part 4: Experiencing War and Bearing Witness


11 Aphonic Images: Aurality and Silence in Civil War Photography
 William Gleeson
12 Profiles of War by Hayashi Fusao: A Writer’s Approach to War
 Guillaume Muller
13 Ōoka Shōhei’s Democratization of the Self
 Misako Nemoto

Conclusion

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Index
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.
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