| Description |
272 pages ; 23 cm |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
War and literature.
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War in literature.
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War in art.
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Art and war.
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Peace in literature.
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Peace in art.
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| Author |
Grace, Sherrill, 1944-
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Imbert, Patrick.
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Johnstone, Tiffany.
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| ISBN |
9780773540590 (paperback) |
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0773540598 (paperback) |
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9780773540583 (bound) |
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077354058X (bound) |
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