Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World WarUniversity Press of Kentucky, 1.1.1997 - 221 sivua Loving Arms examines the war-related writings of five British women whose words explore the connections among gender, war, and story-telling. While not the first study to relate the subjects of gender and war, it is the first within a growing body of criticism to focus specifically on British culture during and after World War II. How a story is narrated and by whom are matters of no small importance. As widely defined and accepted, war stories are men's stories. If we are to hear another story of war, then we must listen to the stories women tell. Many of the war stories written by women insist that war is not the condition of men but rather the condition of humanity, beginning with relations between the sexes. For the five women whose work is examined in Loving Arms - Stevie Smith, Katharine Burdekin, Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, and Doris Lessing - this last point was particularly relevant. Their positions as women within a patriarchal, militarist culture that was externally threatened by an overtly fascist one led to an acute ambivalence, says Schneider. Though all five women perceived the war from substantially different perspectives, each in her own way exposed and critiqued the seductive power of war and war stories, with their densely interwoven tropes of masculinity and nationalism. Yet these writers' conflicting impulses of loyalty to England and resistance to the war betray their ambivalence. |
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Narrating War | 1 |
Discerning the Plots | 10 |
Inscribing AnOther Story Katharine Burdekin Stevie Smith and the Move toward Rebellion | 37 |
DoubleVoiced Discourse Elizabeth Bowens Collaboration and Resistance | 74 |
RePlotting the Wars Virginia Woolfs Radical Legacy | 109 |
A Different Story Doris Lessings Great Escape | 133 |
As Time Goes By | 174 |
Notes | 183 |
Works Cited | 204 |
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Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War Karen Schneider Esikatselu ei käytettävissä - 1997 |
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