coodinated by Srinivas Aravamudan and Diana Taylor

Special Topic: War
Coordinated by Srinivas Aravamudan and Diana Taylor
1505
Introduction: Perpetual War
Srinivas Aravamudan
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1515
Harm’s Way: Language and the Contemporary Arts of War
Mary Louise Pratt
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1532
War and Representation
Fredric Jameson
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1548
Still Winter Falls
Mary A. Favret
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1562
The Laughing Doves of 1812 and the Satiric Endowment of Antiwar Rhetoric in the United States
Aaron McLean Winter
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1582
Emily Dickinson and the Battle of Ball’s Bluff
Benjamin Friedlander
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1600
“Is Your Journey Really Necessary?”: Going Nowhere in Late Modernist London
Marina MacKay
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1614
The Mirror of Memory: Constructions of Hell in the Marukis’ Nuclear Murals
Charlotte Eubanks
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1632
Enchantment, Disenchantment, War, Literature
Sarah Cole
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1648
Watching War
Jan Mieszkowski
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1662
Lines of Sight: Watching War in Jarhead and My War: Killing Time in Iraq
Stacey Peebles
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1677
The Desert of Experience: Jarhead and the Geography of the Persian Gulf War
Geoffrey A. Wright
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1690
Mother of All Battles
Steven Schroeder
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talks from the convention
1704
The Structuring Enemy and Archival War
Allen Feldman
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1714
“Amicus Curiae”: The Friend, the Enemy, and the Politics of Love
Ian Baucom
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1719
Melancholia’s Meerkat: A Poetic Leap
Jody Greene
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1729
There Will Be No Bobby Sands in Guantánamo Bay
Patrick Anderson
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1737
War Is Culture: Global Counterinsurgency, Visuality, and the Petraeus Doctrine
Nicholas Mirzoeff
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little-known documents
1747
War Poems from 1914
Introduction by David Ben-Merre and Robert Scholes
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1761
The Library of Congress Variant of “The Shield of Achilles”
W. H. Auden. Introduction by Stephen E. Severn
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theories and methodologies
1768
“What We Need Right Now Is to Imagine the Real”: Grace Paley Writing against War
Marianne Hirsch
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1778
Regarding the Pain of Women: Questions of Gender and the Arts of Holocaust Memory
James E. Young
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1787
Martial Art
Bill Brown
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1794
State Terrorism, Clandestine Language: Notes on the Argentine Military Dictatorship
Mirta Alejandra Antonelli
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1800
Public Domain
Diamela Eltit
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1806
Electronic Civil Disobedience: Inventing the Future of Online Agitprop Theater
Ricardo Dominguez
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1813
Theater of Atrocities: Toward a Disreality Principle
Branislav Jakovljevic
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1820
9/11 as Avant-Garde Art?
Richard Schechner
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correspondents at large
1830
War in the Mahabharata
Romila Thapar
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1834
Herodotus and the Greco-Persian Wars
Phiroze Vasunia
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1838
Rereading The Iliad in a Time of War
Marianna Torgovnick
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1842
Dismantling Heroism: The Exhaustion of War in Don Quijote
Barbara Fuchs
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1847
Voltaire, War Correspondent at Large
Daniel Brewer
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1851
The Enlightenment at War
Madeleine Dobie
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1855
Leo Tolstoy on Peace and War
Caryl Emerson
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1859
The Thug, the Barbarian, and the Work of Injury in Imperial Warfare
Lydia H. Liu
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1864
Frederick Douglass, War, Haiti
Robert S. Levine
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1869
1848/1898: Memorial Day, Places of Memory, and Imperial Amnesia
Amy S. Greenberg
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1874
Letter from Guatemala: Indigenous Women on Civil War
Arturo Arias
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1878
Representations of History: From Acedia to the Dialectical Image in Bourlem Guerdjou’s Vivre au paradis
Réda Bensmaïa
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1883
Hiroshima, Ground Zero
John Whittier Treat
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1886
Afterword: War Play
Diana Taylor
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1896
Forum
Julian Grajewski
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1897
Minutes of the MLA Executive Council
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