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Writing Wars: Authorship and American War Fiction, Wwi to Present (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609388652)
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2024 Senators Bob and Elizabeth Dole Biennial Award for Distinguished Book in Veterans Studies, winner Who writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was simple: soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even scholars. Contemporary American fiction tells a different story. Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. And that's hardly the only change. Today's war novelists focus on the psychological and moral challenges of soldiers coming home rather than the physical danger of combat overseas. They also imagine the consequences of the wars from non-American perspectives in a way that defies the genre's conventions. To understand why these changes have occurred, David Eisler argues that we must go back nearly fifty years, to the political decision to abolish the draft. The ramifications rippled into the field of cultural production, transforming the foundational characteristics-- authorship, content, and form--of the American war fiction genre.
Author: David F. Eisler
ISBN-10: 1609388658
ISBN-13: 9781609388652
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2022
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.71d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2023
2024 Senators Bob and Elizabeth Dole Biennial Award for Distinguished Book in Veterans Studies, winner Who writes novels about war? For nearly a century after World War I, the answer was simple: soldiers who had been there. The assumption that a person must have experienced war in the flesh in order to write about it in fiction was taken for granted by writers, reviewers, critics, and even scholars. Contemporary American fiction tells a different story. Less than half of the authors of contemporary war novels are veterans. And that's hardly the only change. Today's war novelists focus on the psychological and moral challenges of soldiers coming home rather than the physical danger of combat overseas. They also imagine the consequences of the wars from non-American perspectives in a way that defies the genre's conventions. To understand why these changes have occurred, David Eisler argues that we must go back nearly fifty years, to the political decision to abolish the draft. The ramifications rippled into the field of cultural production, transforming the foundational characteristics-- authorship, content, and form--of the American war fiction genre.
Author: David F. Eisler
ISBN-10: 1609388658
ISBN-13: 9781609388652
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2022
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.98w x 0.71d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2023
By David F. Eisler
xDavid F. Eisler is postdoctoral researcher in literary and cultural studies. He previously served on active duty in the United States Army. His work has appeared in the New York Times, War on the Rocks, Daily Beast, Collier's Magazine, Military Review, Drunken Boat, and The Road Ahead: Fiction from the Forever War. Eisler lives in Amberg, Germany.
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