Total Mobilization - World War II and American Literature

World War II and American Literature. Since World War II, the story of the trauma herothe noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violencehas become omnipresent in Americas narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political hegemony. In Total Mobilization, Roy Scranton cuts through the fog of trauma that obscures World War II, uncovering a lost history and reframing the way we talk about war today. Considering often overlooked works by James Jones, Wallace Stevens, Martha Gellhorn, and others, alongside cartoons and films, Scranton investigates the role of the hero

Product details

• Authors: Roy Scranton
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780226637280
• ISBN: 978-0-226-63728-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; FICTION / War & Military, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, First World War fiction, History of the Americas, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War I