
Total Mobilization
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Introduction: A True War Story
- 1. The Bomber
- The Bomber Lyric
- The Bomber as Scapegoat: Randall Jarrell's "Eighth Air Force
- Atrocity Aesthetics: James Dickey's "The Firebombing
- Agency and Death
- 2. Repetitions of a Hero
- The Hero as Riddle: The Negro Hero and the Nation within a Nation
- The Hero as Social Media: The Caine Mutiny
- Participating in the Heroic: Wallace Stevens and the Poetry of War
- The Reality of the Modern State: The Thin Red Line
- 3. War as Comedy
- Zany Dialectics: "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
- The Education of a War Poet: Kenneth Koch at War
- Barbaric Poetry: From Okinawa to the Cold War
- Encoding War: "Sun Out" and "The Islands
- 4. Total War and Historical Time
- War as Origin Myth: Joan Didion's Run River
- War as a Promise to the Future: "Letter from Paradise, 21° 19´ N., 157° 52´ W.
- The Hanged Man and the Military-Industrial Complex: The Young Lions and Gravity's Rainbow
- One World, One War: The Great War and Modern Memory
- War as Fantasy: Star Wars
- 5. The Trauma Hero
- Combat Gnosticism and the Old Lie: From Clausewitz to The Yellow Birds
- Traumatic Revelation
- The Good War" and Postmodern Memory
- Conclusion: Nothing Is Over
- Acknowledgments
- Works Cited
- Index
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