{"product_id":"shooting-blanks-at-the-anzac-legend-australian-womens-war-fictions-9781743329245","title":"Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend: Australian","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWar is traditionally considered a male experience. By extension, the genre of war literature is a male-dominated field, and the tale of the battlefield remains the privileged (and only canonised) war story. In Australia, although women have written extensively about their wartime experiences, their voices have been distinctively silenced. Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend calls for a re-definition of war literature to include the numerous voices of women writers, and further recommends a re-reading of Australian national literatures, with women's war writing foregrounded, to break the hold of a male-dominated literary tradition and pass on a vital, but unexplored, women's tradition. Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend examines the rich body of World Wars I and II and Vietnam War literature by Australian women, providing the critical attention and treatment that they deserve. Donna Coates records the reaction of Australian women writers to these conflicts, illuminating the complex role of gender in the interpretation of war and in the cultural history of twentieth-century Australia. By visiting an astonishing number of unfamiliar, non-canonical texts, Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend profoundly alters our understanding of how Australian women writers have interpreted war, especially in a nation where the experience of colonising a frontier has spawned enduring myths of identity and statehood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: World War I fictions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The Digger on the lofty pedestal: Australian women’s fictions of the Great War\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: “Guns ‘n’ roses”: Mollie Skinner’s intrepid Great War fictions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: (Not) talking back: Australian women novelists lose the great (linguistic) war\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Lesbia Harford’s home-front warrior and women’s World War I writing\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Sleeping with the enemy: Patriot games in fictions by Lesbia Harford, Gwen Kelly and Joan Dugdale\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Demilitarising a military culture: Brenda Walker’s \u003cem\u003eThe Wing of Night\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: World War II fictions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Damn(ed) Yankees: The Pacific’s not pacific anymore\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: “Where Have All the Flowers Gone?” in the film adaptation of \u003cem\u003eCome in Spinner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Country matters in the \u003cem\u003eLittle (Southern Steel) Company\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Reality bites: The impact of World War II on the Australian home front in Maria Gardner’s \u003cem\u003eBlood Stained Wattle\u003c\/em\u003e and Robin Sheiner’s \u003cem\u003eSmile, the War Is Over\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Loving thine enemies: Representations of Italian prisoners of war in contemporary Australian women’s World War II fictions\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: Lies, secrets and silences: Prisoners-of-war in World War II Australian women’s novels\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: No hell like peacetime: Going (down) under in the land of the “fair go” Chapter 14: The new “Anzacs two” make their debut in contemporary Australian women’s fictions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 3 The Vietnam War\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: Coming home: The return of the (Australian Vietnam War) soldier\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16: “All we are saying is give peace a chance”: The Vietnam war protest movement in Australian women’s fictions by Janine Burke, Patricia Cornelius, Nuri Mass and Wendy Scarfe\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17: ’O what a lovely war: No more shooting blanks in Helen Nolan’s \u003cem\u003eBetween the Battles: A Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConclusion: Boomerangs do come back\u003cbr\u003e Works cited\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sydney University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51020375851351,"sku":"9781743329245","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781743329245.jpg?v=1750783249","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shooting-blanks-at-the-anzac-legend-australian-womens-war-fictions-9781743329245","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}