Allegories of Violence : Tracing the Writings of War in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction

Name: Allegories of Violence:Tracing the Writings of War in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
ISBN: 9781315023618

doi:10.4324/9781315023618

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ABSTRACT

Allegories of Violence demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if we understood war as discursive via late 20th Century novels of war.

Allegories of Violence

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction: War, History and Narrative

chapter |23 pages

Vietnam and Narrative Reflexivity

chapter |20 pages

War as Narrative Discourse

chapter |19 pages

Nuclear Ideology and Narrative Displacement

chapter |21 pages

War, Sexuality, and Narrative

chapter |23 pages

Narrative Fragmentation: Toward an American Resistance Literature

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion: The Writing of War