Waging War on War Waging War on War
Global Studies of the United States

Waging War on War

Peacefighting in American Literature

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The notion that war plays a fundamental role in the United States’ idea of itself obscures the rich--and by no means naïve--seam of anti-war thinking that winds through American culture. Non-violent resistance, far from being a philosophy of passive dreamers, instead embodies Ralph Waldo Emerson’s belief that peace “can never be defended, never be executed, by cowards.”
Giorgio Mariani rigorously engages with the essential question of what makes a text explicitly anti-war. Ranging from Emerson and Joel Barlow to Maxine Hong Kingston and Tim O‛Brien, Waging War on War explores why sustained attempts at identifying the anti-war text’s formal and philosophical features seem to always end at an impasse. Mariani moves a step beyond to construct a theoretical model that invites new inquiries into America’s nonviolent, nonconformist tradition even as it challenges the ways we study U.S. warmaking and the cultural reactions to it. In the process, he shows how the ideal of nonviolence and a dislike of war have been significant, if nonhegemonic, features of American culture since the nation’s early days.

Ambitious and nuanced, Waging War on War at last defines anti-war literature while exploring the genre’s role in an assertive peacefighting project that offered--and still offers--alternatives to violence.

GENRE
Politics & Current Events
RELEASED
2015
December 15
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
University of Illinois Press
SELLER
Chicago Distribution Center
SIZE
1.4
MB

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