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Contents Introduction: The Problematic Return to Peace Ar¿nzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam Part One. Return of the Combatant 1. Anticipating Commemoration: The Post-World War I Era as British Poets Imagined It Brian Dillon 2. The War Veteran in Tender Is the Night William Blazek 3. Coming Home Defeated: Soldiers and the Transition from War to Peace in Post-World War II Japan Beatrice Trefalt 4. "Battle Dress to Sports Suit; Overalls to Frocks": American and British Veterans Confront Demobilization, 1945-51 Mary Anne Schofield 5. "When All the Wars Are Over": The Utopian Impulses of Toni Morrison's Postwar Fiction Jennifer Terry Part Two. Reconciliation 6. Searching for Peace: John Dryden's Troilus and Cressida or Truth Found too Late Janet Dawson 7. Romances of Reconstruction: The Postwar Marriage Plot in Rebecca Harding Davis and John William De Forest Don Dingledine 8. The Unpleasantness at the Chandrapore Club, and the Mayapore Club, and the Jummapur Club: Forster, Scott, and Stoppard and the End of Empire Laurie Kaplan 9. Community and Harmony in Charlotte Eilenberg's Post-Holocaust Play The Lucky Ones Claire Tylee 10. Vietnamese Exile Writers: Displacement, Identity, the Past, and the Future Renny Christopher Part Three. Wars within Peace 11. Seeing the War through Cut-off Triangles: H.D. and Gertrude Stein Kathy J. Phillips 12. The Forgotten Brigade: Foreign Women Writers and the End of the Spanish Civil War Ar¿nzazu Usandizaga 13. Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye: Representations of War Brides in Canadian Fiction and Drama by Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Norah Harding, Margaret Hollingsworth, Joyce Marshall, Suzette Mayr, Aritha van Herk, and Rachel Wyatt Donna Coates 14. Ta(l)king War into Peace: Marguerite Duras's La douleur, History and Her Stories Camila Loew Contributors Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Peace in literature.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Peace -- Social aspects.
Culture conflict in literature.
Social conflict in literature.
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
Soldiers in literature.
War and literature.