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Title

Bearing witness : perspectives on war and peace from the arts and humanities / edited by Sherrill Grace, Patrick Imbert, Tiffany Johnstone.

Publication

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.

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Additional Authors

• Grace, Sherrill, 1944-
• Imbert, Patrick
• Johnstone,Tiffany.

Description

xvii, 272 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "As the centenary of the Great War approaches, citizens worldwide are reflecting on the history, trauma, and losses of a war-torn twentieth century. It is in remembering past wars that we are at once confronted with the profound horror and suffering of armed conflict and the increasing elusiveness of peace.
• A compelling and informative collection, Bearing Witness sheds new light on the impact of war and the power of suffering, heroism and memory, to expose the human roots of violence and compassion."--Pub. desc.
• The contributors to Bearing Witness do not presume to resolve these troubling questions, but provoke new kinds of reflection. They explore literature, the arts, history, language, and popular culture to move beyond the language of rhetoric and commemoration provided by politicians and the military. Adding nuance to discussions of war and peace, this collection probes the understanding and insight created in the works of musicians, dramatists, poets, painters, photographers, and novelists, to provide a complex view of the ways in which war is waged, witnessed, and remembered.

Subject

• Art and war
• Art et guerre
• Guerre dans l'art
• Guerre dans la littérature
• Guerre et littérature
• Paix dans l'art
• Paix dans la littérature
• Peace in art
• Peace in literature
• War and literature
• War in art
• War in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface : bearing witness / Aritha van Herk -- Warplay : spectacle, performance, and (dis)simulation of combat / Alan Filewod -- Understanding the motivation to enlist / Jonathan F. Vance -- Canadian poets on war / Sandra Djwa -- Metaphor, metalepsis, and the colonial library : deconstructing Inyenzi and Ubuhake metaphors in Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the pool in Kigali and Julien Pierce's Speak, Rwanda / Lauren Lydic -- The Georgics of war and peace : following Claude Simon, Nobel Laureate / Mireille Calle-Gruber -- "Expressionist-artillerist" : "poet" and "soldier" as conflicting role models in German avant-garde poetry from the First World War / Martin Löschnigg -- Above or below ground? Depicting corpses in First and Second World War official Canadian war art / Laura Brandon -- Bearing witness and cultural memory : The wreckage, Burning vision, and war in the Pacific / Sherrill Grace -- Emmy Andriesse, Dutch wartime photographer : the hunger winter of 1945 / Christl Verduyn and Conny Steenman Marcusse -- Underlining the lies surrounding the "holy war" and "infinite justice" / Patrick Imbert -- Comparing South Africa's negotiated settlement with elusive peacemaking in Israel/Palestine / Heribert Adam -- Northern war stories : the Dene, the archive, and Canada's atomic modernity / Peter C. van Wyck -- Perspectives on war / Anne Wheeler -- On active service, and Let us wake from this dream : a poem and a string quartet / Janet Henshaw Danielson.

ISBN

• 9780773540590 (pbk.)
• 0773540598 (pbk.)
• 9780773540583 (bound)
• 077354058X (bound)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library