TY - BOOK ID - 61157071 TI - War and Literature: Commiserating with the Enemy PY - 2020 SN - 3039219111 3039219103 PB - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute DB - UniCat KW - political conflict KW - fiction KW - Robert Graves KW - funeral songs KW - contemporary Irish fiction KW - oral tradition KW - commiseration KW - Islamophobia KW - Hmong KW - Herbert Read KW - Lucy Hutchinson KW - south-asian rhetoric KW - Ford Madox Ford KW - encounters KW - Briseis KW - Margaret Cavendish KW - World War One KW - rhetoric KW - Second World War KW - colonialism KW - memoir KW - fantasy KW - Siegfried Sassoon KW - narrative KW - English Civil War KW - war narratives KW - interpreter KW - captive-women KW - Northern Ireland KW - Anne Devlin KW - Western American literature KW - enemyship KW - Italian Front KW - frontier literature KW - Randall Jarrell KW - settler-colonialism KW - First World War KW - commiseration in arjun KW - Afghanistan KW - distance KW - Sebastian Barry KW - World War I KW - ideology KW - Will Mackin KW - soldiers KW - masculinity KW - Luke Mogelson KW - trench warfare KW - Indian Wars KW - Emilio Lussu KW - terrorism KW - Ireland KW - Wilfred Owen KW - Irish literature KW - empathy KW - war poetry KW - J. R. R. Tolkien KW - A Long Long Way KW - war KW - war writing KW - Vietnam/Vietnamese KW - enemies KW - krishan’s rhetoric KW - 1916 Easter Rising KW - reconciliation KW - vyas’ rhetoric KW - Edna O’Brien KW - cognitive dissonance KW - rhetoric in the mahabharat KW - George Armstrong Custer KW - Keith Douglas KW - war literature KW - Andromache KW - Robert Service KW - Homer KW - Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61157071 AB - This Special Issue focuses specifically on the topic of commiseration with the “enemy” within war literature. The articles included in this Special Issue show authors and/or literary characters attempting to understand the motives, beliefs, and cultural values of those who have been defined by their nations as their enemies. This process of attempting to understand the orientation of defined “enemies” often shows that the soldier has begun a process of reflection about why he or she is part of the war experience. The texts included in this issue also show how political authorities often resort to propaganda and myth-making tactics that are meant to convince soldiers that they are fighting opponents who are evil, sub-human, etc., and are therefore their direct enemies. Literary texts that show an author and/or literary character trying to reflect against state-supported definitions of good/evil, right/wrong, and ally/enemy often present an opportunity to reevaluate the purposes of war and one’s moral responsibility during wartime. ER -