Title
War-Injured Bodies: Fallen Soldiers in American Propaganda and the Works of John Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Studies a variety of postwar writers who challenged naïve American assumptions regarding the monstrous foreign “other” and the strong American solider in their depictions of injured World War I veterans. Contends that these damaged bodies, reflecting the physical and psychological horrors of war, revealed America’s prejudices about disability and fed on growing cynicism regarding American foreign policy. References “In Another Country.”
Published in
Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote
Date
2006
Pages
53-79
COinS
Citation
Fahy, Thomas. “War-Injured Bodies: Fallen Soldiers in American Propaganda and the Works of John Dos Passos, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, and William Faulkner.” In Freak Shows and the Modern American Imagination: Constructing the Damaged Body from Willa Cather to Truman Capote, 53-79. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.