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EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY UNTIL THE END OF WORLD WAR II
As heterogeneous as the various artistic avantgardes of the early twentieth century may be in their programmatic orientation, they are united in the...
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Frank Marraffino and Henry Flint’s Haunted Tank (2009–2010): Bastards, Civil War, & Spectral Generals
Race plays a role in Kyle Baker’s graphic novel Special Forces starting from page one where, as we observe in horror movies from Night of the Living...
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The Political Death Penalty in World War II Writing
This final chapter focuses on the World War II experience, considering representations of civilians who are threatened with the death penalty by...
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Đỉnh Q. Lê’s The Pure Land and Ecological Phantoms: Levitating Sarcophagi, Submerged Spirits
This essay situates Đı̉nh Q. Lê’s 2019 installation, Pure Land, as an artwork that addresses issues of ecology, historical fracture, and narrative. A...
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Interpreting Gothic Presence Inside the Global War on Terror’s Novels, Comics, Movies, and Video Games Via Trauma Theory
This book is a journey remembering, reimagining, and contending with the Global War on Terror (GWOT) via storytelling media from 2002 to 2022. It is...
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Building Beasties: Disability, Imperialism, and Violence in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954)
By the end of World War II Britain was faced with substantial challenges. There was considerable economic strain with the cost of rebuilding, a large...
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Trauma, Precarity and War Memories in Asian American Writings
Departing from Jacques Derrida’s appropriations of cinders as a trope of war atrocity aftermath, this book examines writings that deal with war...
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Behind Enemy Lines: The New American Poetry as a Cold War Anthology
This chapter examines the context of Donald Allen’s anthology, arguing that The New American Poetry is rooted in the Cold War. This chapter...
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Cold War Literature of North America
While US cultural policy during the Cold War was engaged in efforts to export the ‘American way’, Canadian cultural policy focused on expanding and...
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Hanoi in Literature and Cinema
With more than 1000 years of history, Hanoi is known as the city with the richest cultural traditions in Vietnam, but it has also experienced the...
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Edwin Reischauer The Japanese (1977)
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was born in Tokyo in 1910. After spending his childhood in Japan, he attended Oberlin College in Ohio, and later Harvard...
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World Citizens: Espionage Literature in the Cold War
Cold War espionage fiction regularly represents the perils of citizenship. Drawing upon Hannah Arendt’s theorisation of statelessness, as well as...
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Inter/Transnational Feminist Literature of the Cold War
This chapter argues that the Cold War was a hot war when seen from the perspective of women and feminist writers across the world. It presents the...
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Dissent and Its Discontents in Cold War Poetry
This chapter not only explores but also questions dissent as a paradigm for understanding Cold War poetry. While poets writing during the Cold War...
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Cold War Poetry and Migrant Writing
This chapter looks at migrant poets in the Cold War who moved out of their countries, were forced into exile or only had readers through translation....
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Cold War Literature in East Asia
This chapter focuses on the early years of the Cold War and highlights the diverse literary engagements that underpinned the apparently stable...
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The Soviet Cold War Literary Imagination
Focusing on the formative years of the Cold War, this chapter examines the evolution of the main genres of Soviet writing (mostly political poetry...
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Introduction: A Narrative History of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
This introductory chapter traces the literary aspects of the Korean, Vietnam, and Cold wars, attempting a narrative history of their events as that...
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Examining Animal Bodies in War-Related Media for Children
Little has been written about the intersections of armed conflict and animal bodies, particularly in media for children. In the twenty-first century,...
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Uneven Battles: Central American Cold War Literature
This chapter discusses Central American Cold War literature by focusing on its main forms (poetry, testimonio, prose fiction) and its main concerns...