Arms And The Self: War, The Military, And Autobiographical Writing

by Vernon, Alex

• ISBN13: 9780873388122
• ISBN10: 0873388127
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr

Author Biography

Alex Vernon is assistant professor of English at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, and coauthor of The Eyes of Orion: Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War (Kent State University Press, 1999)

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction: No Genre's Land	1	(217)
The Problem of Genre in War Memoirs and Military Autobiographies
ALEX VERNON
1 Xenophon's Anabasis and the Origins of Military Autobiography	41	(20)
JOHN W.I. LEE
2 Style Wars	61	(20)
The Problems of Writing Military Autobiography in the Eighteenth Century
ROBERT LAWSON-PEEBLES
3 T.E. Lawrence	81	(23)
Writing the Military Life from Homer to High Modernism
TERRY REILLY
4 The Female Subject and the First World War	104	(25)
The Case of Vera M. Brittain, VAD London/268, BRCS
ANDREA PETERSON
5 Women's Confinement as Women's Liberation	129	(15)
World War II Civilian Internees in South Pacific Camps
LYNN Z. BLOOM
6 Myths of Unity	144	(27)
Remembering the Second World War through Letters and Their Editing
MARGARETTA JOLLY
7 War Elegy	171	(11)
PAT C. HOY II
8 The "Atrocious Privilege"	182	(20)
Bearing Witness to War and Atrocity in O'Brien, Levi, and Remarque
CHRIS DALEY
9 On the Battlefield and Home Front	202	(16)
American Women Writing Their Lives on the Vietnam War
BETTINA HOFMANN
10 The African American Autobiography of the Vietnam War	218	(18)
JEFFREY LOEB
11 The Life Writing of a Military Child	236	(21)
JENNIFER SINOR
12 Writing against the Vietnam War in Two Gulf War Memoirs	257	(16)
Anthony Swofford's Jarhead and Joel Turnipseed's Baghdad Express
ELISABETH PIEDMONT-MARTON
Works Cited	273	(18)
Contributors	291