Research Catalog

Back to peace : reconciliation and retribution in the postwar period / edited by Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam.

Title
Back to peace : reconciliation and retribution in the postwar period / edited by Aránzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam.
Publication
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2007.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
TextRequest in advance PS228.P43 B33 2007Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors
  • Usandizaga, Aránzazu.
  • Monnickendam, Andrew.
Description
vii, 312 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Peace in literature
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • English literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Peace > Social aspects
  • Culture conflict in literature
  • Social conflict in literature
  • Displacement (Psychology) in literature
  • Soldiers in literature
  • War and literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9780268044527 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 026804452X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006039824
OCLC
77485723
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library