U.S War and Mobilization in the 20th Century

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The literature in this course includes war fiction and literature set during a war or in a postwar world, but this literature might better be categorized as mobilization or post-mobilization literature. The unprecedented, meritocratic mobilizations for the World Wars and Vietnam effected dramatic social transformations in masculinity, the role of women, gender relations, sexual behavior, and the status of ethnic Americans and African-Americans. This course explores the representation of these mobilization-inspired transformations in modernist and post-modern literature, a brand new project in literary study.