World at War

Discuss whether and how far you agree, and why, with any one of the below statements, with reference to one of the texts studied.1. The insistence in war literature that the horrors of conflict cannot be fully articulated becomes a narrative in itself.[aftermaths/after-effects]3. War narratives look insistently to the end of the conflict, but they do so by imagining that the past will return.[narratives of war][the costs of war; proportionality]5. Women emerged from the dimness of ordinary life into the brilliant illumination of wartime, only to drop back into the shadows once more. (Gail Braybon)[women’s role in war]6. If colonialism was a system, […] then resistance began to feel systematic too. (Edward Said)[colonial conflict; decolonisation]7. Warfare and the technologies of war have revolutionised the world. (Adam Piette)[war technologies and inventions]8. Without the assault on the senses, it would be impossible for a state to wage war. (Judith Butler)[affective and sensory responses to the conflict]9. Early-twentieth-century military practices, particularly the aerial bombing of civilians and population centers, [] turn[ed] cities and towns into spaces of rending anticipation. (Paul K. Saint-Amour)[fear; civilians; total war]10. Whoever takes seriously the history of violence in the twentieth century will find it hard to believe in myths of progress. (Hans Joas)[violence and ‘progress’]Use this text below for the essay Nggwa Thiongo,Petals of Blood(1977

 

 

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