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Writing War, Writing Lives (Paperback)
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Writing War, Writing Lives (Paperback)
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War affects life writing and lives affect war writing. The
traditional forms of life writing - memoir, biography, letters,
diaries - buckle under the strain of war. War writing has fewer
traditional forms but exists at a similar extreme. The eight
chapters in this book, written by leading and up-and-coming
scholars in the field, illuminate the creative innovations,
improvisations, and implosions which happen when the demands of
writing war and writing lives collide. Central to all is the
question of authenticity: how can wars and lives be known and who
can speak of them with authority? This volume has a generous
chronological and generic range, beginning in the early 1800s and
stretching to twenty-first-century texts, and covering letters,
diaries, fiction, 'fakeries', poetry, biography, testimony, songs,
objects, and digital media. The mix of authors is similarly varied:
Thomas Hardy, W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Bowen rub shoulders with
Yousif M. Qasmiyeh (a contemporary Palestinian poet), Farah Baker
(a Gazan teenager) and the writers behind the pen names Araki
Yasusada and Jiri Kajane. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Textual Practice.
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