Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature - Global Studies of the United States - Giorgio Mariani - Libros - University of Illinois Press - 9780252039751 - 7 de diciembre de 2015
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Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature - Global Studies of the United States


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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 naive--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.


296 pages, 1 black and white photograph

Medios de comunicación Libros     Hardcover Book   (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros)
Publicado 7 de diciembre de 2015
ISBN13 9780252039751
Editores University of Illinois Press
Páginas 296
Dimensiones 242 × 165 × 26 mm   ·   566 g

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