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Lovecidal: Walking With The Disappeared [Table Of Contents], Trinh T. Minh-Ha

Cinema & Media Studies

“Lovecidal: Walking with the Disappeared is filled with provocation and guided by evocation. Encompassing various forms (poetry, treatise, memoir, and historiography) and capaciously conceived, Trinh T. Minh-ha’s contemplation of war, state-authorized violence, state-sanctioned ‘security,’ and international amnesia is skillfully tempered by observations of beauty, humanity, and resistance. To say that this is an important book is in many ways an understatement; rather, Lovecidal is transformative.” —Cathy Schlund-Vials, author of War, Genocide, and Justice: Cambodian American Memory Work

The Spoils Of War, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

The Language Of War, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

'That Sweet And So On': Peter Handke's Yugoslavia Work, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.

Betwixt War And Peace: The Dual Function And Substance Of The Bell, James K. Otté

Quidditas

This paper owes its inspiration to Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage and to its protagonist, Henry Fleming, who

One night, as he lay in bed, the winds had carried to him the clangoring of the church bell as some enthusiast jerked the rope frantically to tell the twisted news of a great battle. This voice of the people rejoicing in the night had made him shiver in a prolonged ecstasy of excitement. Later, he had gone down to his mother’s room and had spoken thus: ‘Ma, I'm going to enlist.’ ‘Henry, don't you be a fool,’ his mother had …

The Rhetoric Of War And Peace: Peter Handke's 'Questioning While Weeping', Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.