Title: Bearing witness : perspectives on war and peace from the arts and humanities /
Authors: Grace, Sherrill, 1944-; Imbert, Patrick; Johnstone,Tiffany.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: War and literature.; War in literature.; War in art; Art and war.; Peace in literature.; Peace in art.; Guerre et littérature.; Guerre dans la littérature.; Guerre dans l'art.; Art et guerre.; Paix dans la littérature.; Paix dans l'art.
Abstract: "As the centenary of the Great War approaches, citizens worldwide are reflecting on the history, trauma, and losses of a war-torn twentieth century. It is in remembering past wars that we are at once confronted with the profound horror and suffering of armed conflict and the increasing elusiveness of peace.
Contents: Preface : bearing witness / Aritha van Herk -- Warplay : spectacle, performance, and (dis)simulation of combat / Alan Filewod -- Understanding the motivation to enlist / Jonathan F. Vance -- Canadian poets on war / Sandra Djwa -- Metaphor, metalepsis, and the colonial library : deconstructing Inyenzi and Ubuhake metaphors in Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the pool in Kigali and Julien Pierce's Speak, Rwanda / Lauren Lydic -- The Georgics of war and peace : following Claude Simon, Nobel Laureate / Mireille Calle-Gruber -- "Expressionist-artillerist" : "poet" and "soldier" as conflicting role models in German avant-garde poetry from the First World War / Martin Löschnigg -- Above or below ground? Depicting corpses in First and Second World War official Canadian war art / Laura Brandon -- Bearing witness and cultural memory : The wreckage, Burning vision, and war in the Pacific / Sherrill Grace -- Emmy Andriesse, Dutch wartime photographer : the hunger winter of 1945 / Christl Verduyn and Conny Steenman Marcusse -- Underlining the lies surrounding the "holy war" and "infinite justice" / Patrick Imbert -- Comparing South Africa's negotiated settlement with elusive peacemaking in Israel/Palestine / Heribert Adam -- Northern war stories : the Dene, the archive, and Canada's atomic modernity / Peter C. van Wyck -- Perspectives on war / Anne Wheeler -- On active service, and Let us wake from this dream : a poem and a string quartet / Janet Henshaw Danielson.