The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, Weber examines the concept of the war as a social monad, a confusing array of personal stories and public histories that disrupt traditional ways of knowing the social world for the second generation.
The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, Weber...
Through case studies of four prominent cultural products, Narrating War in Peace takes a longitudinal approach to the influence and conceptualization of the Civil War in democratic Spain. Stafford uses two of Agusti Centelles' photographs and Picasso's Guernica (1937) to explore stories told about the war in cultural production during the transition to democracy. How have these narratives morphed in the twenty-first century in light of the polemics about historical memory? Stafford identifies three prominent shifts in the cultural memory of the Spanish Civil War in the last three decades of...
Through case studies of four prominent cultural products, Narrating War in Peace takes a longitudinal approach to the influence and conceptualization ...
After the Lebanese Civil War, many of Lebanon's best known novelists committed themselves to building a "memory for the future." More than twenty years later, Elias Khoury's and Rashid al-Daif's postwar novels rank among the most important texts in contemporary Arabic literature, fomenting a new generation of writers authors to begin writing about the civil war. The Lebanese Post-Civil War Novel: Memory, Trauma, and Capital argues that the Lebanese Post-Civil war novel is a response not so much to trauma, but to the forces at work in the literary field. From the book market to literary prizes...
After the Lebanese Civil War, many of Lebanon's best known novelists committed themselves to building a "memory for the future." More than twenty year...
The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, Weber examines the concept of the war as a social monad, a confusing array of personal stories and public histories that disrupt traditional ways of knowing the social world for the second generation.
The Vietnam War has had many long-reaching, traumatic effects, not just on the veterans of the war, but on their children as well. In this book, Weber...