EAN: 9783838206776

WAR AND LITERATURE LOOKING BACK ON 20TH CENTURY...

This comprehensive volume analyzes the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and in
the way they are narrated and represented. Ever since the First World War has changed war
itself  rendering meaningless the very vocabulary of war in terms such as battle   front  
non-combatant   open city and hero   new words  new approaches  new theories and new texts had
to be invented. The enemy became invisible: Submarines  tanks  mines  gas  long-range artillery
and airplanes made this war different from all the other that came before. A hundred years
after the beginning of this terrible war  it is now time to recall different representations of
the armed conflicts of the 20th century. The articles in this collection analyze
representations of the Canudos Civil War in Brazil  the First World War  the Second World War 
the Korean War  the Vietnam War  the colonial wars in Africa  and the war in Afghanistan 
aiming to understand how war and the telling of war have changed during the most murderous
hundred years in the history of mankind.

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