War and Literature: Commiserating with the Enemy
McCoppin, Rachel
War and Literature: Commiserating with the Enemy - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (145 p.)
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This Special Issue focuses specifically on the topic of commiseration with the “enemy” within war literature. The articles included in this Special Issue show authors and/or literary characters attempting to understand the motives, beliefs, and cultural values of those who have been defined by their nations as their enemies. This process of attempting to understand the orientation of defined “enemies” often shows that the soldier has begun a process of reflection about why he or she is part of the war experience. The texts included in this issue also show how political authorities often resort to propaganda and myth-making tactics that are meant to convince soldiers that they are fighting opponents who are evil, sub-human, etc., and are therefore their direct enemies. Literary texts that show an author and/or literary character trying to reflect against state-supported definitions of good/evil, right/wrong, and ally/enemy often present an opportunity to reevaluate the purposes of war and one’s moral responsibility during wartime.
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books978-3-03921-911-7 9783039219100 9783039219117
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political conflict fiction Robert Graves funeral songs contemporary Irish fiction oral tradition commiseration Islamophobia Hmong Herbert Read Lucy Hutchinson south-asian rhetoric Ford Madox Ford encounters Briseis Margaret Cavendish World War One rhetoric Second World War colonialism memoir fantasy Siegfried Sassoon narrative English Civil War war narratives interpreter captive-women Northern Ireland Anne Devlin Western American literature enemyship Italian Front frontier literature Randall Jarrell settler-colonialism First World War commiseration in arjun Afghanistan distance Sebastian Barry World War I ideology Will Mackin soldiers masculinity Luke Mogelson trench warfare Indian Wars Emilio Lussu terrorism Ireland Wilfred Owen Irish literature empathy war poetry J. R. R. Tolkien A Long Long Way war war writing Vietnam/Vietnamese enemies krishan’s rhetoric 1916 Easter Rising reconciliation vyas’ rhetoric Edna O’Brien cognitive dissonance rhetoric in the mahabharat George Armstrong Custer Keith Douglas war literature Andromache Robert Service Homer Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya
War and Literature: Commiserating with the Enemy - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 - 1 electronic resource (145 p.)
Open Access
This Special Issue focuses specifically on the topic of commiseration with the “enemy” within war literature. The articles included in this Special Issue show authors and/or literary characters attempting to understand the motives, beliefs, and cultural values of those who have been defined by their nations as their enemies. This process of attempting to understand the orientation of defined “enemies” often shows that the soldier has begun a process of reflection about why he or she is part of the war experience. The texts included in this issue also show how political authorities often resort to propaganda and myth-making tactics that are meant to convince soldiers that they are fighting opponents who are evil, sub-human, etc., and are therefore their direct enemies. Literary texts that show an author and/or literary character trying to reflect against state-supported definitions of good/evil, right/wrong, and ally/enemy often present an opportunity to reevaluate the purposes of war and one’s moral responsibility during wartime.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-03921-911-7 9783039219100 9783039219117
10.3390/books978-3-03921-911-7 doi
political conflict fiction Robert Graves funeral songs contemporary Irish fiction oral tradition commiseration Islamophobia Hmong Herbert Read Lucy Hutchinson south-asian rhetoric Ford Madox Ford encounters Briseis Margaret Cavendish World War One rhetoric Second World War colonialism memoir fantasy Siegfried Sassoon narrative English Civil War war narratives interpreter captive-women Northern Ireland Anne Devlin Western American literature enemyship Italian Front frontier literature Randall Jarrell settler-colonialism First World War commiseration in arjun Afghanistan distance Sebastian Barry World War I ideology Will Mackin soldiers masculinity Luke Mogelson trench warfare Indian Wars Emilio Lussu terrorism Ireland Wilfred Owen Irish literature empathy war poetry J. R. R. Tolkien A Long Long Way war war writing Vietnam/Vietnamese enemies krishan’s rhetoric 1916 Easter Rising reconciliation vyas’ rhetoric Edna O’Brien cognitive dissonance rhetoric in the mahabharat George Armstrong Custer Keith Douglas war literature Andromache Robert Service Homer Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya