Imagining Home: American War Fiction from Hemingway to 9/11

by Susan Farrell

War has often been seen as the domain of men and thus irrelevant to gender analysis, and American writers have frequently examined war according to traditional gender expectations: that boys become men by going to war and girls become women by building a home. Yet the writers discussed in this book complicate these expectations, since their female characters often take part directly in war and especially since their male characters repeatedly imagine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140018
• ISBN13: 9781640140011
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"