Dressing up for War: Transformations of Gender and Genre in the Discourse and Literature of War (Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature, 24) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042013672 ISBN 13: 9789042013674

Publisher: Brill, 2001

Synopsis

Acknowledgments

I. 1914-1918 THE WAR TO CHANGE ALL WORDS

1. Laurie KAPLAN: "How Funny I Must Look with my Breeches Pulled Down to my Knees": Nurses’ Memoirs and Autobiographies from The Great War

2. Peter BUITENHUIS: The Perversion of Motherhood: the Trope of the Son at the Front

3. Caroline ZILBOORG: The Center of the Cyclone: Gender and Genre in H.D.’s War Novel

4. María ÁNGELES TODA: Deadly Marriages: Masculinity and the Pleasures of Violence in H.R. Haggard’s Romances of Adventures

5. António LOPES: (Un)masking the Self: the Hero in Edwardian Popular Fiction

II. DRESS REHEARSALS: EARLIER PERFORMANCES AND SCENARIOS

6. Jane E. SCHULTZ: Performing Genres: Sarah Edmonds’ Nurse and Spy and the Case of the Cross-Dressed Text

7. Ana María SÁNCHEZ-ARCE: The Prop They Need: Undressing and the Politics of War in Beryl Bainbridge’s Master Georgie

8. Renate PETERS: The Metamorphoses of Judith in Literature and Art: War by Other Means

9. Tabea Alexa LINHARD: Adelita’s Radical Act of Counter-Writing

10. Simon BARKER: Dressing up for War: Militarism in Early Modern Culture

11. Joan CURBET: Repressing the Amazon: Cross-Dressing and Militarism in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

III. MODERN TIMES: REDRESSING OLD WOUNDS

12. Jenny HARTLEY: Warriors and Healers, Impostors and Mothers: Betty Miller’s On the Side of the Angels

13. Maria Antònio OLIVER: "Sangre Fértil"/Fertile Blood: Migratory Crossings, War and Healing in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera

14. Lorrie GOLDENSOHN: Towards a Non-Combatant War Poetry: Jarrell, Moore, Bishop

15. Simon PHILO: Breaking the Silence, Crossing the Line: Women Veteran Poets of the Vietnam War

16. Kathleen BRADY, John BRIGGS, Edward A. HAGAN: The Enemy is ‘Us’: Misconstruing the Real war in The Deer Hunter and Other Post-Vietnam War Narratives

17. Claire TYLEE: "Name upon Name": Myth, Ritual and the Past in Recent Irish Plays Referring to the Great War

Notes on Contributors

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042013672
• ISBN 13: 9789042013674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 311
• Editor: Usandizaga Aránzazu, Monnickendam Andrew