in:
Women : a cultural review
London:
2006
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78 - 97 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | MacCallum-Stewart, Esther |
| In: | Women : a cultural review |
| Jahr: | 2006 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The literature of the First World War has been of interest to us since 1914, and narratives about the war remain popular with academics and general readers alike. Female novelists have created a distinctive series of texts about the war, and their writing about specific aspects, in particular the role of the male at war, has influenced many subsequent depictions of the First World War and other conflicts. These works tend to depict sensitive young men, usually officers, who are brought to a realization of the emotional costs of war. This results in poetic yet devastating shellshock. The late 1960s saw a revival in studies of the war preoccupied with the horrors of trench warfare, and the ironic coincidence of high causalities and poor military strategy; yet these studies also reinscribed the war experience for a modern audience. The shocked officer of female novels was adopted wholesale as a symbol of all soldiers at war, and this image replaced more masculine, heroic discourses. From this period, the default representation of a man at war was one whose innate sensitivity brought him not only to a realization of the terrible conditions that he and his comrades were forced to endure, but also to a tacit understanding that he would rebel against the situation on moral grounds. Since the 1970s, war literature, largely dominated by female authors, has played a major role in encouraging this perspective, from the Booker prizewinning Regeneration by Pat Barker (1991—5), to the lesser known and more easily ignored popular works of romantic and historical fiction. MacCallum-Stewart examines these trends in a variety of ways, identifying key movements and changes in war writing as well as examining how female authors have contributed to a change in the perception of the First World War through literary texts. | |
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