| Description |
vii, 312 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Return of the combatant. Anticipating commemoration : the post-World War I era as British poets imagined it / Brian Dillon -- The war veteran in Tender is the night / William Blazek -- Coming home defeated : soldiers and the transition from war to peace in post-World War II Japan / Beatrice Trefalt -- "Battle dress to sports suit; overalls to frocks" : American and British veterans confront demobilization, 1945-51 / Mary Anne Schofield -- "When all the wars are over" : the utopian impulses of Toni Morrison's postwar fiction / Jennifer Terry -- pt. 2. Reconciliation. Searching for peace : John Dryden's Troilus and Cressida or Truth found too late / Janet Dawson -- Romances of reconstruction : the postwar marriage plot in Rebecca Harding Davis and John William De Forest / Don Dingledine -- The unpleasantness at the Chandrapore Club, and the Mayapore Club, and the Jummapur Club : Forster, Scott, and Stoppard and the end of empire / Laurie Kaplan -- Community and harmony in Charlotte Eilenberg's post-Holocaust play The lucky ones / Claire Tylee -- Vietnamese exile writers : displacement, identity, the past, and the future / Renny Christopher -- pt. 3. Wars within peace. Seeing the war through cut-off triangles : H.D. and Gertrude Stein / Kathy J. Phillips -- The forgotten brigade : foreign women writers and the end of the Spanish Civil War / Aránzazu Usandizaga -- Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye : representations of war brides in Canadian fiction and drama by Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Norah Harding, Margaret Hollingsworth, Joyce Marshall, Suzette Mayr, Aritha van Herk, and Rachel Wyatt / Donna Coates -- Ta(l)king war into peace : Marguerite Duras's La douleur, history and her stories / Camila Loew. |
| Subject |
Peace in literature.
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Peace in literature. |
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Peace -- Social aspects.
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Peace -- Social aspects. |
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Peace. |
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Culture conflict in literature.
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Culture conflict in literature. |
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Social conflict in literature.
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Social conflict in literature. |
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Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
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Displacement (Psychology) in literature. |
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Soldiers in literature.
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Soldiers in literature. |
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War and literature.
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War and literature. |
| Added Author |
Usandizaga, Aránzazu.
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Monnickendam, Andrew.
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| ISBN |
9780268044527 paperback alkaline paper |
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026804452X paperback alkaline paper |
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