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  title info:
    title: Raritan on war
    sub title: an anthology
  title info:
    title: Raritan
  name:
    name part: Lears, T. J. Jackson
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Lears, Karen Parker
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nju
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 215 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
  abstract: "We are, once again, a world at war. Geopolitical elites are deploying the implacable forces of ethnocentric hatred and religious nationalism; ordinary people are paying a fearful price. Not for the first time: this has been the characteristic pattern of war for more than a century. Every selection in this anthology (except for the timeless Aeneid) casts light on modern war, observed or directy experienced. Most are grounded in particular places- Stalingrad, Halberstadt, Budapest, Baghdad, Algiers, the Tamil ghost towns of Sri Lanka, the 6 by 12 cell in Bellmarsh maximum security prison where Julian Assange is held without bail, for the crime of revealing US war crimes. Some recapture the actual look and feel of war-the sight of a seven-year-old girl clutching her mother's hand, dodging explosions in the Halberstadt public square; the sound of a Mozart concerto in D minor, heard by a family hiding in a cave, played on their own piano by a Serbian sniper. Others take aim at the vast and vapid abstractions used to justify armed conflict, down to and including the use of nuclear weapons. On War reveals the power of art and reflection to sustain humane ways of being in the world, even amid constant global violence. On war gathers togehter some of the finest writing on that troubling subject published in Raritan between 2003 and 2022. The editors, Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears, have selected work that typifies Raritan's wide-ranging sensibility- focusing on a topic that is aesthetically rich, intellectually challenging, and morally disturbing. it is also all too timely. Contributors: C. Felix Amerasinghe; Andrew J. Bachevich; Victoria De Grazia; Tamas Dobozy; David Ferry; M. Fortuna; Cai Guo-Quiang; Emma Dodge Hanson; Jochen Hellbeck; Karl Kirchwey; Ray Klimek, Peter LaBier; Patrick Lawrence; D. Mark Levitt; Michael Miller; Lyle Jermey Rubin; Elizabeth D. Samet; Sherod Santos; Robert Westbrook"--
  note: edited by Jackson Lears and Karen Parker Lears.
  note: "Raritan Skiff Books" -- title page.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: War
    genre: Literary collections
  subject:
    topic: Guerre
    genre: Anthologies
  classification: PN6071.W35 R37 2025
  classification: 808.8/0358
  identifier: 9781978841604
  identifier: 1978841604
  identifier: 9781978841611
  identifier: 1978841612
  identifier: 9781978841628
  identifier: 9781978841635
  identifier: 2024018917
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240718
    record change date: 20250802185328.9
    record identifier: in00005654930
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng