Cracking Open the Frame : Recognition in Remarque’s "All Quiet on the Western Front", Garcia’s "Grounded" and Saif’s "The Drone Eats With Me"
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
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creator: Landa, Maria
issued: 2020-03-24T14:19:41Z
issued: 2020
description: "This thesis will examine three works of war literature in order to understand the framing of war, the potential for resistance of this very frame, and the refusal to accept and perpetuate its destructive effects. It will discuss the subsequent shift towards another solicitation that recovers the senses and, thence, allows for recognition and the facilitation of empathy." --page 5
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note: Landa 1 Maria Landa Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Gustar ENGL 499 Honours English Cracking Open the Frame: Recognition in Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Garcia’s Grounded and Saif’s The Drone Eats With Me Section I: Empathy, Frames of War, and The Soldier’s Matrix This essay breaks apart, cracks open, the frame that commands bodies to transform from flesh into objects of war—where men, women and children no longer are seen as lives, no longer are heard through the blast of gunfire, shriek of bombs, nor the buzz of a drone. This essay looks at the literature written on war and through the contemporary screens of drones that unlock the potential to alter or eradicate the visual and auditory components of others’ suffering: their voices, faces, agony—virtually disappear. This functions to re-write and re-describe how we view war through literary and theoretical analysis. Considerations of empathy in relation to warfare provide necessary context. Many scholars regard empathy as a principle for the potential construction of relationality and reconciliation between others (Halpern and Weinstein, Lanzoni, Koopman, Keen). Susan Lanzoni defines empathy as an expansion of sympathy: it marks a “deeper-going ability to engage with a variety of feelings and to inhabit, sometimes even bodily, the other’s perspective” (6). Halpern and Weinstein argue that empathy is integral to reconciliation after warfare, as it “challenge[s] the major aspects of dehumanization” and they further argue that “coexistence without empathy is both superficial and fragile” (569). Empathy allows for the development of Landa 2 feelings towards those we do not usually develop a relationship with, and literature can foster such connections through an introduction into multiple perspectives (Koopman 243). The important distinction between empathy and sympathy is further made clear with Keen’s explanation: empathy consists in expressions of identification, as in “I feel what you feel, I feel your pain…
has type: Graduating Project
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language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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scholar level: Undergraduate
is part of: University of British Columbia. ENGL 499
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/73795