1st Edition
Allegories of Violence Tracing the Writings of War in Late Twentieth-Century Fiction
By Lidia Yuknavitch
Copyright 2001
148 Pages
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Routledge
148 Pages
by
Routledge
112 Pages
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Routledge
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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.
Preface: War, the Serial I. Introduction: War, History and Narrative II.Vietnam and Narrative Reflexivity III. War as Narrative Discourse IV. Nuclear Ideology and Narrative Displacement V. War, Sexuality, and Narrative VI. Narrative Fragmentation: Toward an American Resistance Literature VII. Conclusion: The Writing of War Bibliography
Biography
Lidia Yuknavitch's work has appeared in the anthologies Representing Bisexualities (NYU Press, 1996) and Third Wave Agenda (University of Minnesota Press, 1997). She also writes short fiction and is the author of two short story collections. Her work has appeared in dozens of journals and magazines, including Ms., The Iowa Review and Gargoyle. She currently teaches literature and fiction writing at San Diego State University.
