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Fighting Words and Images

Fighting Words and Images

Representing War Across the Disciplines

Edited by Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger and Adam Muller

Published by: University of Toronto Press

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

336 Pages, 159.00 × 235.00 × 27.00 mm, 29 b&w illustrations

Hardcover
9781442641235
Published: April 2012

£55.00

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Fighting Words and Images is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary and theoretical analysis of war representations across time periods from Classical Antiquity to the present day and across languages, cultures, and media including print, painting, sculpture, architecture, and photography.

Featuring contributions from across the humanities and social sciences, Fighting Words and Images is organized into four thematically consistent, analytically rigourous sections that discuss ways to overcome the conceptual challenges associated with theorizing war representation. This collection creatively and insightfully explains the nature, origins, dynamics, structure, and impact of a wide variety of war representations.

List of Illustration

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Representing War across the Disciplines
ELENA V. BARABAN, STEPHAN JAEGER, and ADAM MULLER

SECTION ONE: SILENCES

Representations of War and the Social Construction of Silence
JAY WINTER
Not Writing about War
KATE MCLOUGHLIN
Occupation as the Face of War: Concealing Violence in the Diary A Woman in Berlin
BRAD PRAGER

SECTION TWO: PERSPECTIVES

Historiographical Simulations of War
STEPHAN JAEGER
The Aestheticization of Suffering on Television
LILIE CHOULIARAKI
Slotting War Narratives into Culture's Ready-Made
HELENA GOSCILO

SECTION THREE: IDENTITIES

Blessed Are the Warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black Prophetic Tradition
JENNIFER C. JAMES
Exchange of Sacrifices: Symbolizing an Unpopular War in Post-Soviet Russia
SERGUEI ALEX. OUSHAKINE
Identity and the Representation of War in Ancient Rome
JAMES T. CHLUP

SECTION FOUR: AFTERMATHS

The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet Films
ELENA V. BARABAN
Monsters in America: The First World War and the Cultural Production of Horror
DAVID M. LUBIN
'Ruins: The Ruin of Ruins' – Photography in the 'Red Zone' and the Aftermath of the Great War
SIMON BAKER

Contributors

Index

Elena V. Baraban is an associate professor in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Stephan Jaeger is an associate professor in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.

Adam Muller is an associate professor in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba.

‘Fighting Words and Images is a smart, innovative, and stimulating collection… The editors have pulled off a remarkable feat: an edited volume where many individual chapters shine, yet the sum far outweighs the individual parts.’
- Stephen M. Norris (Slavic Review vol 72:02:2013)