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Total Mobilization: World War II and American Literature, Scranton, Roy, Very Go
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- Publication Year
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- English
- Publication Name
- Total Mobilization : World War II and American Literature
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- University of Chicago Press
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Since World War II, the story of the trauma hero--the noble white man psychologically wounded by his encounter with violence--has become omnipresent in America's narratives of war, an imaginary solution to the contradictions of American political hegemony. In Total Mobilization , Roy Scranton cuts through the fog of trauma that obscures World War II, uncovering a lost history and reframing the way we talk about war today. Considering often overlooked works by James Jones, Wallace Stevens, Martha Gellhorn, and others, alongside cartoons and films, Scranton investigates the role of the hero in industrial wartime, showing how such writers struggled to make sense of problems that continue to plague us today: the limits of American power, the dangers of political polarization, and the conflicts between nationalism and liberalism. By turning our attention to the ways we make war meaningful--and by excavating the politics implicit within the myth of the traumatized hero-- Total Mobilization revises the way we understand not only World War II, but all of postwar American culture.
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University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022663728x
ISBN-13
9780226637280
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Publication Name
Total Mobilization : World War II and American Literature
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
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Ps169.W27s37 2019
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The trauma hero: the lone warrior who faces death, returns with unspeakable revelations, and in suffering absolves state and citizen of their complicity in collective violence and wartime atrocities. Scranton has news for us: we've been viewing American war through the myth of the trauma hero for so long that we've lost sight of the acts, the political logics, and the writings that don't accord with it. In shaking us loose from that myth, Total Mobilization remakes the literature and legacy of the Second World War. A searching, bracing book., Scranton's book asks an urgent question: How can citizens in 'an industrial commercial republic attempt to manage the conflict of liberal humanist values with the military violence that makes the practice of those values possible.' With precision and depth, Scranton answers by exploring the 'the role of the hero in totalized industrial war.' He exhumes the forgotten traces in poetry, narrative, film and cartoon, emphasizing the manner in which the category of trauma defines our nation's ethics for what is socially acceptable. Fascinating, articulate, timely and richly archival, the book dissects the 'ethnonationalist pieties' embedded in the literature of the 'good' Second World War, engaging the fiercely contrasting layers between the real and the symbolic and the manufacture and deployment of the traumatic hero., How has something as central to U.S. culture as the figure of the trauma hero escaped critical scrutiny for so long? To say that Scranton's Total Mobilization answers this question brilliantly even as it fills the void in criticism that inspires it is somehow not enough, because that void is America. A highly compelling and capaciously learned study of the literature of the Second World War, this book also illuminates as never before some of the chaotic depths of self-love, self-pity, and above all rank self-contradiction at the nation's core. Delivered with unmistakable intellectual authority, and calling us to a confrontation with hard truth, it puts one in mind of classics of Americanist criticism like Richard Slotkin's Regeneration Through Violence ., Total Mobilization centers our attention on one iconic figure--the American soldier as trauma hero--and provides a profound and compelling study of the Second World War in American literary history. With remarkable concision, great argumentative tact, and discursive flair, Scranton uses this signal personage to make sense of some of the most shattering paradoxes of the American Century. Never reductive, wonderfully subtle in its formulations and perceptive in its close readings, this is a groundbreaking work of literary criticism and cultural history. It will be part of the permanent legacy of writing about literature and war in the twentieth century., There is great relevance in Scranton's intention of seeing how meaning is made in America's relationship to its wars and firearms, in its relationship to non-white, non-Christian populations, seeing that these relationships are roiled with prejudice and self-righteousness today, just as they have been for centuries. By analysing the representation of the soldier in American literature, and by paying attention to authors who work against the trauma hero, Scranton shows the 'collective practices' that have emerged as a result of wars, as well as the fractured nature of American society. These are critically important insights for coming to terms with the responsibility of such a powerful and dangerous machine as the American military., Tough, plain-spoken, and thorough-going, Scranton harnesses his encyclopedic knowledge of poetry and fiction to argue for the ongoing importance of World War II, a legacy fusing capitalism and nationalism into a toxic crucible for American literature. Against the familiar focus on the traumatized hero-soldier, Scranton highlights total mobilization as the logic of war, a systemic violence that decimates the rest of the world even as it sacrifices unsuspecting US citizens. Deeply troubling and eye-opening.
Table of Content
List of Figures Introduction: A True War Story Chapter 1: The Bomber The Bomber Lyric The Bomber as Scapegoat: Randall Jarrell's "Eighth Air Force" Atrocity Aesthetics: James Dickey's "The Firebombing" Agency and Death Chapter 2: Repetitions of a Hero The Negro Hero and the Nation within a Nation The Hero as Social Media: The Caine Mutiny Participating in the Heroic: Wallace Stevens and the Poetry of War The Reality of the Modern State: The Thin Red Line Chapter 3: War as Comedy Zany Dialectics: "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" The Education of a War Poet: Kenneth Koch at War Barbaric Poetry: From Okinawa to the Cold War Encoding War: "Sun Out" and "The Islands" Chapter 4: Total War and Historical Time War as Origin Myth: Joan Didion's Run River War as a Promise to the Future: "Letter from Paradise, 21° 19' N., 157° 52' W." The Hanged Man and the Military-Industrial Complex: The Young Lions and Gravity's Rainbow One World, One War: The Great War and Modern Memory War as Fantasy: Star Wars Chapter 5: The Trauma Hero Combat Gnosticism from Clausewitz to The Yellow Birds Traumatic Revelation "The Good War" and Postmodern Memory Conclusion: Nothing Is Over Acknowledgments Works Cited Index
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
United States / 20th Century, Military / World War II, Subjects & Themes / Historical events, American / General
Lccn
2018-056059
Dewey Decimal
810.9/3584053
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, History
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