Airpower in Literature offers fresh insight into the first century of airpower by placing literature of five major wars in conversation with the clean war discourse. The literature pushes back, showing both aviators and bombed societies, exposing the air war to an audience that may never otherwise see it.
Airpower in Literature offers fresh insight into the first century of airpower by placing literature of five major wars in conversation with the clean war discourse. The literature pushes back, showing both aviators and bombed societies, exposing the air war to an audience that may never otherwise see it.
Kimberly Krampitz Dougherty is a decorated U.S. Air Force veteran and former adjunct professor at Granite State College.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Cather and Faulkner Expose the Myth of Aerial Chivalry in One of Ours and Soldiers' Pay Chapter Two: Periphery to Metropole: Malraux, Hemingway, and Gellhorn Write Bomber and Bombed in the Spanish Civil War Chapter Three: Exposing the Invisible Aviator: Countering Spatial and Discursive Distancing in World War II Literature Chapter Four: Writing the Bombed City for "Unbombed America": Dickey's "The Firebombing" and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter Five: Discursive Distancing on the Vague Frontier: Aviators and Populations in Vietnam War Literature Chapter Six: Continued Exposure: Twenty-first Century Bombed and Bomber in Mockingjay and Grounded Conclusion: Writing the Second Airpower Century Bibliography Index About the Author
Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Cather and Faulkner Expose the Myth of Aerial Chivalry in One of Ours and Soldiers' Pay Chapter Two: Periphery to Metropole: Malraux, Hemingway, and Gellhorn Write Bomber and Bombed in the Spanish Civil War Chapter Three: Exposing the Invisible Aviator: Countering Spatial and Discursive Distancing in World War II Literature Chapter Four: Writing the Bombed City for "Unbombed America": Dickey's "The Firebombing" and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five Chapter Five: Discursive Distancing on the Vague Frontier: Aviators and Populations in Vietnam War Literature Chapter Six: Continued Exposure: Twenty-first Century Bombed and Bomber in Mockingjay and Grounded Conclusion: Writing the Second Airpower Century Bibliography Index About the Author
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