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Klappentext: "This book examines representations of war throughout American literary history, providing a firm grounding in established criticism and opening up new lines of inquiry. Readers will find accessible yet sophisticated essays that lay out key questions and scholarship in the field. War and American Literature provides a comprehensive synthesis of the literature and scholarship of US war writing, illuminates how themes, texts, and authors resonate across time and wars, and provides multiple contexts in which texts and a war's literature can be framed. By focusing on American war writing, from the wars with the Native Americans and the Revolutionary War to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, this volume illuminates the unique role representations of war have in the US imagination"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis: Aspects of war in American literature. War and morality / Ty Hawkins -- Propaganda for war from the Revolution to the Vietnam War / Nicholas J. Cull -- Representing soldiers / Jennifer Haytock -- Bodies, injury, medicine / Michael Zeitlin -- Veterans, trauma, afterwar / Philip Beidler -- Mourning, elegy, memorialization from the CIvil War to Vietnam / Steven Trout -- On antiwar literature / Lawrence Rosenwald -- Cultural moments and the American literary imaginary. Liberty, freedom, independence, and war / James J. Gigantino II -- Indians, defeat, persistence, and resistance / Tammy Wahpeconiah -- Civil War literature and memory / Sarah E. Gardner -- African American literature, citizenship, and war, 1863-1932 / Davis Davis -- World War I and cultural change in America / Pearl James -- On the home fronts of two world wars / Karsten Piep -- Patriotism, nationalism, globalism / Jonathan Vincent -- The "good war" script / Diederik Oostdijk -- The Vietnam War and its legacy / Mark A. Heberle -- The forever wars / Stacey Peebles -- New lines of inquiry. War and queerness / Eric Keenaghan -- War and disability studies / John M. Kinder -- War and ecocriticism / Laura Wright -- War and whiteness / Roger Luckhurst -- War and posthumanism / Tim Blackmore
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