War and Literature: Looking Back on 20th Century Armed Conflicts - Tapa blanda

This volume follows the radical change in the nature of armed conflicts and the way they are narrated and represented since the First World War, which rendered meaningless the very vocabulary of such terms as "battle," "front," "non-combatant," "open city," and "hero." The enemy became invisible. Submarines, tanks, mines, gas, long-range artillery, and airplanes made war different from all other conflicts that came before. These essays study representations of the Canudos Civil War in Brazil, the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the colonial wars in Africa, and the war in Afghanistan.

Luiz Gustavo Vieira, Volker Jaeckel, Elcio Cornelsen, and Tom Burns teach and research literature in English and German at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. They are also founders of the Center for Studies of War and Literature (NEGUE) at the university's College of Letters.