Thesiss

This study explores the complex connection between the social dynamics of societies in conflict, memory and denial. It investigates the politics of denial and memory, as it addresses the difficulties faced by societies in coming to terms with their past. Analyzing the internal d…

Paradigms of Protest: American Artists Against the Vietnam War is a narrative history of antiwar engagement by American artists during the Vietnam War (1964-1975). Contextualized within the major events of the war and the greater American antiwar movement, this history explains …

The purpose of this study is to examine the sources of divergent political understandings, focusing on veterans of the Iraq war who emerged from the conflict as pro- or anti-war activists. Despite coming from similar class, cultural, and social backgrounds, and also entering the…

ABSTRACTHOUSES DIVIDED: NEW PERSPECTIVES ON ANTIWAR DISSENT IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

This dissertation examines literary resistance to US militarism since 1945. I maintain that a requirement of antiwar literature is a disruption or break from the pro-war narrative that seeks to justify and normalize the wars and militarism that saturate this historical period; l…