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9780226808567

The War Complex: World War II in Our Time

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226808567

  • ISBN10:

    0226808564

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2008-06-01
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Summary

Marianna Torgovnick here argues that we have lived, since the end of World War II, under the power of a war complexa set of repressed ideas and impulses that stems from our unresolved attitudes toward the technological acceleration of mass death. This complex has led to gaps and hesitations in public discourse about atrocities committed during the war itself. And it remains an enduring wartime consciousness, one most recently animated on September 11. Showing how different events from World War II became prominent in American cultural memory while others went forgotten or remain hidden in plain sight,The War Complexmoves deftly from war films and historical works to television specials and popular magazines to define the image and influence of World War II in our time. Thinking anew about how we account for war to each other and ourselves, Torgovnick ultimately, and movingly, shows how these anxieties and fears have prepared us to think about September 11 and our current war in Iraq. "This book is wide-ranging, moving beyond American matters and authors. As a postmodernist critical approach, it succeeds in contextualizing American reactions to World War II by going deeper than national boundaries and impersonal narration."Eric Solomon,American Literature "A provoking and ethical book. . . . In an age when information is ephemeral, any book which recovers forgotten history is laudable."James Ervin,Rain Taxi

Author Biography

Marianna Torgovnick is professor of English at Duke University and director of Duke’s New York Program in Arts and Media. She is the author of numerous works, including Primitive Passions: Men, Women, and the Quest for Ecstasy; Gone Primitive: Modern Intellects, Savage Lives; and Crossing Ocean Parkway, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Table of Contents

Prologue: After 9/11 Introduction: Hiding in Plain Sight
D-Day
Eichmann's Ghost
Citizens of the Holocaust: The Vernacular of Growing Up after World War II
Unexploded Bombs
""They are ever returning to us, the dead"": The Novels of W. G. Sebald
Conclusion: Toward an Ethics of Identification
Afterword
Notes
Index
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