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Author Yuknavitch, Lidia

Title Allegories of violence : tracing the writing of war in twentieth-century fiction / Lidia Yuknavitch
Published New York : Routledge, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 137 pages)
Series Literary criticism and cultural theory
Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Contents Preface: War, the Serial -- Ch. I. Introduction: War, History and Narrative -- Ch. II. Vietnam and Narrative Reflexivity -- Ch. III. War as Narrative Discourse -- Ch. IV. Nuclear Ideology and Narrative Displacement -- Ch. V. War, Sexuality, and Narrative -- Ch. VI. Narrative Fragmentation: Toward an American Resistance Literature -- Ch. VII. Conclusion: The Writing of War
Summary Allegories of Violence demilitarizes the concept of war and asks what would happen if we understood war as discursive via late 20th Century novels of war
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Acker, Kathy, 1948-1997. Empire of the senseless
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 1948- Almanac of the dead.
Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013. Shikasta
Heinemann, Larry. Paco's story
DeLillo, Don. White noise
SUBJECT White noise (DeLillo, Don) fast
Almanac of the dead (Silko, Leslie Marmon) fast
Subject American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
War and literature -- English-speaking countries
War stories, American -- History and criticism
War stories, English -- History and criticism
Violence in literature.
Allegory.
allegories (literary works)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
Allegory
American fiction
Violence in literature
War and literature
War stories, American
War stories, English
Amerikaans.
Letterkunde.
Verhalen.
Oorlog.
English-speaking countries
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136707209
1136707204
9781315023618
131502361X