War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing-memoir, biography, letters, diaries-buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional forms but exists at a similar extreme. The eight chapters in this book, covering a range of genres, and spanning from the early 1800s to the 21st century, illuminate the creative innovations, improvisations and implosions which happen when the demands of writing war and writing lives collide. Central to all is the question of authenticity: how can wars and lives be known and who can speak of them with…mehr
War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The traditional forms of life writing-memoir, biography, letters, diaries-buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer traditional forms but exists at a similar extreme. The eight chapters in this book, covering a range of genres, and spanning from the early 1800s to the 21st century, illuminate the creative innovations, improvisations and implosions which happen when the demands of writing war and writing lives collide. Central to all is the question of authenticity: how can wars and lives be known and who can speak of them with authority? This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.
Kate McLoughlin is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, UK. Lara Feigel is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at King's College, London, UK. Nancy Martin is a doctoral student in English Literature at the University of Oxford, UK.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Writing war, writing lives 1. Missing letters: reading the interstices in archival correspondence from the Napoleonic Wars and in Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major 2. 'And all because it is war!': First World War diaries, authenticity and combatant identity 3. Reframing life/war 'writing': objects, letters and songs of Indian soldiers, 1914-1918 4. 'The only diary I have kept': visionary witnessing in the second world war short story 5. Representing Nazi crimes in post-Second World War life writing 6. Statelessness and the poetry of the borderline André Green, W.H. Auden and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh 7. 'Paper is patient': tweets from the '#AnneFrank of Palestine' 8. Inventing the eyewitness: Araki Yasusada and Jiri Kajanë
Introduction: Writing war, writing lives 1. Missing letters: reading the interstices in archival correspondence from the Napoleonic Wars and in Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major 2. 'And all because it is war!': First World War diaries, authenticity and combatant identity 3. Reframing life/war 'writing': objects, letters and songs of Indian soldiers, 1914-1918 4. 'The only diary I have kept': visionary witnessing in the second world war short story 5. Representing Nazi crimes in post-Second World War life writing 6. Statelessness and the poetry of the borderline André Green, W.H. Auden and Yousif M. Qasmiyeh 7. 'Paper is patient': tweets from the '#AnneFrank of Palestine' 8. Inventing the eyewitness: Araki Yasusada and Jiri Kajanë
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