Fighting Words and Images: Representing War Across the Disciplines

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Fighting Words and Images: Representing War Across the Disciplines / Edited by Elena V. Baraban, Stephan Jaeger, and Adam Muller. – University of Toronto Press, 2012. – 336 p.

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.

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CONTENTS

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

EDITORS: Elena V. Baraban is a 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.

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