Regarding the Pain of OthersFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 1 okt. 2013 - 144 sidor A brilliant, clear-eyed consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects. |
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... war. Written during the preceding two years, while she and most of her intimates and fellow writers were rapt by the advancing fascist insurrection in Spain, the book was couched as the very tardy reply to a letter from an eminent ...
... war (for there are laws of war, to which combatants should be held), and to be able to stop specific wars by imposing negotiated alternatives to armed conflict. It may be hard to credit the desperate resolve produced by the aftershock ...
... war is a man's game—that the killing machine has a gender, and it is male. Nevertheless, the temerity of Woolf's version of “Why War?” does not make her revulsion against war any less conventional in its rhetoric, in its summations ...
... war does. And that, that is what it does, too. War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins. Not to be pained by these pictures, not to recoil from them, not to strive to abolish what causes this ...
... war, war as such, does. They show a particular way of waging war, a way at that time routinely described as “barbaric,” in which civilians are the target. General Franco was using the same ... wars, the same photographs of children killed.