“All Warfare Is Based on Deception”:
Narrative Representations of War in 20th Century US Literature

Fonti primarie:
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse No. 5 (1969)
Tim O’Brien – “How to Tell a True War Story”, The Things They Carried (1990)
Tim O’Brien – “The Lives of the Dead”, The Things They Carried (1990)
Frank Miller – 300 (1998)
Kevin Powers – The Yellow Birds (2005)

Fonti secondarie:
Enrico Botta, “Dal Mare Egeo all’Oceano Atlantico: la saga epica di 300 e la nascita dell’impero americano”, Ácoma – Rivista internazionale di Studi Nordamericani 9 (2015), pp. 29-40.
Mark A. Heberle, “Fabricating Trauma”, in The Trauma Artist: Tim O’Brien and the Fiction of Vietnam. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 2001, pp. 1-39.
Limon, John, “Introduction”, in Writing After War: American War Fiction from Realism to Postmodernism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994, pp. 3-8.
Yohanis Mesang, Anik Cahyaning Rahayu, “Billy Pilgrim’s Traumatic Symptoms and Triggers in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five”, Anaphora – Journal of Language, Literary, and Cultural Studies 5.2 (2022): pp. 201-213.
Ann Rigney, “All This Happened, More or Less: What a Novelist Made of the Bombing of Dresden”, History and Theory 48.2 (2009): pp. 5-24.
Geoffrey A. Wright, “‘a kind of misguided archeology’: The Iraq War and Postmodern Memory in Kevin Powers’s The Yellow Birds”, South Atlantic Review 84.1 (2019): pp. 105-122.