title: Writing War: Fiction, Gender, and Memory
author: Lynne T. Hanley
description: "Unusual as it is powerful, this study consists of linked essays interspersed by short stories, all based on the general theme of women and war. Hanley (Hampshire College) begins by taking issue with Paul Fussell's important work, <i>The Great War and Modern Memory</i> (1975), calling it a narrow analysis of war literature, based exclusively on the writings of white English and American men. The author sees Fussell's study deliberately suppressing war texts written by women, especially pernicious in this period of canon formation. As remedy, Hanley critically examines the writings of women who make the matter of war a central part of their evolving thought: Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Doris Lessing, in particular. . . . Hanley's short stories, her war literature, cover the impact and aftermath of war. The stories movingly express fear, dislocation, monstrousness. Both essays and stories are accessible, a clear explication of an important feminist critical stance. Highly recommended."<i>Choice</i><br /><br />"Hanley believes that an established 'canon' of war fiction, which sentimentalizes the viewpoint of an individual white male soldier, serves as society's collective memory of war. Since women do not normally write from the battlefield, they have been excluded from the canon. But the front is not only on the battlefieldespecially now, in the nuclear age. In her stories, Hanley tries to create an alternative memory of war, one that includes the views of victims, the 'enemy,' and those who stayed at home, such as women and children."<i>Booklist</i>
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  GIVE ME WAR
  
  
  Copyright © 2020 by Kate McCarthy
  
  
  ISBN-13: 978-0-6481236-6-8
  
  
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