Bearing Witness
Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
299 pages
978-0-7735-8763-2 (ISBN)
Description
Artists and humanists reflect upon the paradox of war.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal, QC
United States
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
illustrations
File size
6,04 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-8763-2 (9780773587632)
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Sherrill Grace | Patrick Imbert | Tiffany Johnstone
Bearing Witness
Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities
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10/2012
McGill-Queen's University Press
€154.75
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Persons
Grace Sherrill:
Sherrill E. Grace is professor of English at the University of British Columbia where she holds the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies. She has published books on Margaret Atwood, literary expressionism, Canadian drama, and Malcolm Lowry, iSherrill Grace is University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia.
Patrick Imbert is University Research Chair in Socio-Cultural Changes in Canada at the University of Ottawa.
Tiffany Johnstone is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia.
Sherrill E. Grace is professor of English at the University of British Columbia where she holds the Brenda and David McLean Chair in Canadian Studies. She has published books on Margaret Atwood, literary expressionism, Canadian drama, and Malcolm Lowry, iSherrill Grace is University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia.
Patrick Imbert is University Research Chair in Socio-Cultural Changes in Canada at the University of Ottawa.
Tiffany Johnstone is a PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Bearing Witness
- For What? An Introduction
- PART I: Exploring the Roots of War: Performance, History, Poetry, and Language
- 1 Warplay: Spectacle, Performance, and (Dis) Simulation of Combat
- 2 Understanding the Motivation to Enlist
- 3 Canadian Poets on War
- 4 Metaphor, Metalepsis, and the Colonial Library: Deconstructing Inyenzi and Ubuhake Metaphors in Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali and Julien Pierce's Speak, Rwanda
- PART II: Bearing Witness to War and Peace: The Vocabularies of Literature, Art, and Photography
- 5 The Georgics of War and Peace: Following Claude Simon, Nobel Laureate
- 6 "Expressionist-Artillerist": "Poet" and "Soldier" as Conflicting Role Models in German Avant-Garde Poetry from the First World War
- 7 Above or Below Ground? Depicting Corpses in First and Second World War Official Canadian War Art
- 8 Bearing Witness and Cultural Memory: The Wreckage, Burning Vision, and War in the Pacific
- 9 Emmy Andriesse, Dutch Wartime Photographer: The Hunger Winter of 1945
- PART III: Taking Some Lessons from History: Rhetoric, Ethics, and the Search for Peace
- 10 Underlining the Lies Surrounding the "Holy War" and "Infinite Justice"
- 11 Comparing South Africa's Negotiated Settlement with Elusive Peacemaking in Israel/Palestine
- 12 Northern War Stories: The Dene, the Archive, and Canada's Atomic Modernity
- PART IV: For What? Artists' Reflections on Film, Poetry, and Music
- 13 Perspectives on War
- 14 On Active Service, and Let Us Wake from This Dream: A Poem and a String Quartet
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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