Title Embattled home fronts : domestic politics and the American novel of World War I / Karsten H. Piep

Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 310 pages) Series Costerus ; new ser. 179 Costerus ; new ser., v. 179. Contents Acknowledgements; preface; modern memory revisited; section i world war i as liberal protest novel; section ii world war i as proletarian bildungsroman; section iii world war i as feminist utopia; section iv world war i as race romance; bibliography; index Summary Embattled Home Fronts is an inquiry into the highly conflicted US American experience of World War I as it plays itself out in the diverse body of novelistic works to which it has given rise and by which it has been, in turn, shaped and commemorated. As such, this book naturally concerns itself with the formal aspects of artistic war representation. But rather than merely endeavoring to illustrate how American writers from various backgrounds chose to depict World War I, the present work seeks to uncover the particular ideologies and political practices that inform these representational choices. To this end, Embattled Home Fronts examines both canonized and marginalized US American World War I novels within the context of contemporaneous debates over shifting class, gender, and race relations. The book contends that American literary representations of the Great War are shaped less by universal insights into modern society¿s self-destructiveness than by concerted efforts to fashion class-, gender-, and race-specific experiences of warfare in ways that stabilize and heighten political group identities. In moving beyond the customary focus on ironic war representations, Embattled Home Fronts illustrates that the representational and ideological battles fought within American World War I literature not only shed light on the emergence of powerful identity-political concepts such as the New Woman and the New Negro, but also speak to the reappearance of utopian, communitarian, and social protest fictions in the early 1930s. This study Embattled Home Fronts provides a new understanding of the relationship between war literature and home front politics that should be of interest to students and scholars working from a variety of disciplines and perspectives Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-299) and index Notes English Print version record Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 20th century -- Political aspects American literature -- 20th century -- Social aspects World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war -- Political aspects -- United States World War, 1914-1918 -- Literature and the war -- Social aspects -- United States LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American fiction American literature -- Political aspects American literature -- Social aspects United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781441603586 1441603581 9042025204 9789042025202 9789401206761 9401206767

Other Titles Domestic politics and the American novel of World War I

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