![]() Barker's project, however, opens up important questions at stake in the far more elusive and formally complex Children of the New World, to which I will turn in the latter half of my essay. Rivers in Regeneration, however, may seem to leave little room for the literary critic to perform much further analysis in a novel in which images and dialogue are the continual subject of extremely specific interpretations. ![]() The dominant presence of the psychiatrist Dr. My inquiry begins by considering Regeneration in order to develop a theory of silence as resistance in the context of a war in which physical coercion akin to torture was an unrecognized and murky component of the military's internal functioning. Both authors reveal how war is present in the apparently safe domestic spaces conventionally characterized as nurturing, such as the hospital and the family home, and both propose a feminized resistance to war that takes silence as its most powerful weapon. ![]() Favret has termed "negative," histories of the First World War and the Algerian War of Independence respectively (2010, 145). Pat Barker's novel of 1991, Regeneration, and Assia Djebar's novel of 1962, Les Enfants du nouveau monde-translated as Children of the New World under the aegis of the City University of New York's Feminist Press in 20051-offer their readers hidden, or what Mary A. ![]()
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