War,Literature,and the Construction of Canada's National Image:Taking Generals Die in Bed as an Example
Similar to All Quiet on the Western Front,Canadian writer Charles Yale Harrison's anti-war novel Generals Die in Bed vividly depicts the sanguinary and merciless scenes in the First World War.Meanwhile,the novel adopts such modern techniques as non-linear narration to subvert previous war writing,providing significant reference for later Canadian war novels.The major reason why Generals Die in Bed,a representative novel in early Canadian anti-war literature,fell into oblivion is that the novel expressed skepticism about the idealism and heroism advocated in and after the war,which directly contradicted the myth of Canada's construction of a modern nation-state at that time.An intrinsic approach in terms of the novel's language and narrative features in this paper,coupled with an extrinsic approach in light of Canada's social,political and historical conditions of that era,will not only reveal the literary value of this anti-war novel but also disclose the close interaction between war,literature,and the construction of Canada's national image.
Charles Yale HarrisonGenerals Die in Bedskepticismnational image
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