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Narratives of War
ENGL 122NW - Fall 2005, Rita Raley
This page contains a list of study materials related to the course. Also, students may be interested in the following campus events scheduled for Fall 2005:
Saturday, October 1, Multicultural Center (time tba): Norman Solomon, "War Made Easy"
Thursday, October 6, Campbell Hall (8:00 pm): Lecture by Howard Zinn , author of Embracing Humanity - Truth in a Time of War
Tuesday, October 11: Screening of The Deer Hunter , Girvetz 1004, 7-10 p.m.
Sunday, October 16, Victoria Hall Theater (3:00 pm): Lecture and reading by Ha Jin , author of War Trash
Sunday, October 23, 3:00 p.m., Campbell Hall (free): Screening of Seeds (Dir. Marjan Safinia and Joseph Boyle; 2004)
Tuesday, November 15, 7:00 p.m., MCC (free): Etel Adnan reading
Wednesday, November 16, 7:30 p.m., Campbell Hall (free): Original Child Bomb ("eye-opening meditation on the human cost of nuclear weapons, focusing on the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki")
Off-campus: Getty exhibit, "Pictures for the Press " (through January 22, 2006)
Criticism & Theory
Jean Baudrillard, The Gulf War did not take place (1991)
---, The Spirit of Terrorism (2003)
Karl von Clausewitz, On War (1832)
Jordan Crandall, ed., Under Fire.1: The Organization and Representation of Violence (2004)
James Der Derian, Antidiplomacy: Spies, Terror, Speed, and War (1992)
---, Virtuous War (2001)
Larry Jay Diamond, Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (2005)
Ernst Friedrich, War Against War (1924)
Hugh Gusterson, People of the bomb: portraits of America's nuclear complex (2004)
Chris Hedges, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)
Michael Ignatieff, Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond (2000)
Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain (1985)
Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977)
Paul Virilio, War and Cinema (1989)
---, Pure War (1984/1997)
---, Desert Screen: War at the speed of light (1991)
---, Strategy of Deception (2000)
Samuel Weber, Targets of Opportunity: On the Militarization of Thinking (2005)
Howard Zinn, Terrorism and War (2002)
Graphic novels
Joe Sacco, Palestine (2002)
Ted Rall, To Afghanistan and Back (2002)
Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (2003)
Mark Stamaty, Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq (2004)