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Giorgio Mariani - Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature - 9780252039751 - V9780252039751
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Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature

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Description for Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature Hardback. Series: Global Studies of the United States. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1 black and white photograph. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
The notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States' idea of itself obscures the rich--and by no means naïve--seam of anti-war thinking that winds through American culture. Non-violent resistance, far from being a philosophy of passive dreamers, instead embodies Ralph Waldo Emerson's belief that peace "can never be defended, never be executed, by cowards."

Giorgio Mariani rigorously engages with the essential question of what makes a text explicitly anti-war. Ranging from Emerson and Joel Barlow to Maxine Hong Kingston and Tim O'Brien, Waging War on War explores why sustained attempts at identifying the anti-war text's ... Read more


Ambitious and nuanced, Waging War on War at last defines anti-war literature while exploring the genre's role in an assertive peacefighting project that offered--and still offers--alternatives to violence.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Global Studies of the United States
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039751
SKU
V9780252039751
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Ref
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About Giorgio Mariani
Giorgio Mariani is a professor of American literature at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of Spectacular Narratives: Representations of Class and War in Stephen Crane and American Popular Literature of the 1890s.

Reviews for Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature
"Waging War on War is a fascinating, learned, lively, and much-needed study of how different American writers and activists have imagined, defined, and fought for peace, even as they have gone to war or confronted the history of U.S. interventionism."
IMPACT "Giorgio Mariani's Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature is a theoretically informed, refreshingly innovative perspective on ... Read more

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