1st Edition
How We Are Changed by War A Study of Letters and Diaries from Colonial Conflicts to Operation Iraqi Freedom
By D.C. Gill
Copyright 2010
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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The prolonged conflict in Iraq has shown us war’s transformative effect. Civilians rivet themselves to events happening halfway around the world, while young soldiers return home from battlefields, coping with the memories of those events.
How We Are Changed by War examines our sense of ourselves through the medium of diaries and wartime correspondence, beginning with the... Read more
Introduction 1. The Metes and Bounds of Narrative and Self 2. An Opportunity for Change: War and Ambition 3. Conversion 4. A Growing Estrangement 5. The Complexity of Spectatorship 6. Eye of the Storm 7. A Continuing Aftermath
Biography
Diana C. Gill is an independent scholar with a PhD in English from the University of Mississippi at Oxford.
