anti-war literature
Conflict-condemning prose
Anti-war literature encompasses writing that opposes war or critiques its human costs—novels, poems, essays, and memoirs that depict the brutality, futility, or moral corruption of armed conflict.
The category includes classics like *All Quiet on the Western Front* and *Catch-22*, as well as soldier memoirs and protest poetry.
The course surveyed anti-war literature from World War I to Vietnam.
- human sufferingDistress experienced by people
- fictionImagined narrative work
- moral critiqueJudgment of rightness
- realismAccepting things as they are
- poetryMetrical literary composition
graphic novels · reconciliation · never again · political dissent · conscientious objector · satire · allegory · memoirs · oral histories · social justice · psychological trauma · pacifism · essays · banned books · documentary style · plays · Guernica · fragmented narrative
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