Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941

Situated in what has been known loosely as the peace movement, it contributes to society's broader pattern of literary and journalistic expression, deconstructing the official narrative of our wartime presidential administrations to offer a "collective subjectivity other than the nation-st...

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Veröffentlicht in:Military review 2008, Vol.88 (1), p.123
1. Verfasser: Alfier, Jeffrey C
Format: Review
Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Situated in what has been known loosely as the peace movement, it contributes to society's broader pattern of literary and journalistic expression, deconstructing the official narrative of our wartime presidential administrations to offer a "collective subjectivity other than the nation-state" with its state-sanctioned patriotic lyric. Metres culled hundreds of sources and includes excerpts of dozens of poems to illustrate that war-resistance poetry serves American society by producing "counter narratives, images, and linguistic play in ways tiiat create afterimages as powerful as the photographs that alter public opinion" about the morality of war.
ISSN:0026-4148
1943-1147