Loving arms British women writing the Second World War
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
eBook, English, 1997
University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., 1997
1 online resource (221 p.)
9780813170688, 0813170680
1105426866
Introduction: Narrating War
1. Discerning the Plots
2. Inscribing An/Other Story: Katharine Burdekin, Stevie Smith, and the Move toward Rebellion
3. Double-Voiced Discourse: Elizabeth Bowen's Collaboration and Resistance
4. Re-Plotting the War(s): Virginia Woolf's Radical Legacy
5. A Different Story: Doris Lessing's Great Escape
Coda: As Time Goes By