Fighting Words and Images

Elena V. Baraban is an associate professor in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.Stephan Jaeger is an associate professor in the Department of German and Slavic Studies at the University of Manitoba.Adam Muller is an associate professor in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba.

‘Fighting Words and Images is a smart, innovative, and stimulating collection… The editors have pulled off a remarkable feat: an edited volume where many individual chapters shine, yet the sum far outweighs the individual parts.’- Stephen M. Norris (Slavic Review vol 72:02:2013)

• List of IllustrationAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Representing War across the DisciplinesELENA V. BARABAN, STEPHAN JAEGER, and ADAM MULLERSECTION ONE: SILENCES Representations of War and the Social Construction of SilenceJAY WINTERNot Writing about WarKATE MCLOUGHLINOccupation as the Face of War: Concealing Violence in the Diary A Woman in BerlinBRAD PRAGERSECTION TWO: PERSPECTIVES Historiographical Simulations of WarSTEPHAN JAEGERThe Aestheticization of Suffering on TelevisionLILIE CHOULIARAKISlotting War Narratives into Culture's Ready-MadeHELENA GOSCILOSECTION THREE: IDENTITIES Blessed Are the Warmakers: Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and the Black Prophetic Tradition JENNIFER C. JAMESExchange of Sacrifices: Symbolizing an Unpopular War in Post-Soviet RussiaSERGUEI ALEX. OUSHAKINEIdentity and the Representation of War in Ancient RomeJAMES T. CHLUPSECTION FOUR: AFTERMATHS The Battle of Stalingrad in Soviet FilmsELENA V. BARABANMonsters in America: The First World War and the Cultural Production of HorrorDAVID M. LUBIN'Ruins: The Ruin of Ruins' – Photography in the 'Red Zone' and the Aftermath of the Great WarSIMON BAKERContributorsIndex