Wars Mediate(d)

Literary movements and historical periods are often understood in relation to major wars. This panel seeks papers that explore how wars mediate the lives of those involved—both soldier and civilian—as well as how narratives about war experience mediate the writer’s and readers’ understanding of what the war means. For example, papers could consider how fictional, poetic, or life-writing representations of particular wars challenge pre-war assumptions regarding space, identity, citizenship, trauma, gender and sexuality, race relations, and more broadly what it means to be human.