Lexington Books
Pages: 234
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-7936-5308-6 • Hardback • August 2022 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-5309-3 • eBook • August 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Kimberly Krampitz Dougherty is a decorated U.S. Air Force veteran and former adjunct professor at Granite State College.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Cather and Faulkner Expose the Myth of Aerial Chivalry in One of Ours and Soldiers’ Pay
Chapter Two: Periphery to Metropole: Malraux, Hemingway, and Gellhorn Write Bomber and Bombed in the Spanish Civil War
Chapter Three: Exposing the Invisible Aviator: Countering Spatial and Discursive Distancing in World War II Literature
Chapter Four: Writing the Bombed City for “Unbombed America”: Dickey’s “The Firebombing” and Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five
Chapter Five: Discursive Distancing on the Vague Frontier: Aviators and Populations in Vietnam War Literature
Chapter Six: Continued Exposure: Twenty-first Century Bombed and Bomber in Mockingjay and Grounded
Conclusion: Writing the Second Airpower Century
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Scholar, teacher, decorated military aviator, Kimberly Dougherty knows whereof she speaks. If you had imagined that air power somehow makes war more rational, efficient, and humane, read this deeply researched and informative book.
— Michael Zeitlin, University of British Columbia
Kimberly Dougherty brings the keen eye and deep understanding of an Air Force veteran to bear on 20th- and 21st-century literature of air warfare, taking the reader from Cather and Faulkner's challenges to the myth of the chivalric aviator up to contemporary representations of drone pilots. Given the vast changes of the last century and Dougherty's deft handling of historical and artistic material, this is an invaluable study.
— Stacey Peebles, Centre College