7 The Humour of an Indian Soldier’s Memories of the First World War in M.R. Anand’s Across the Black Waters (1939)

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures xiii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 3
6. Remembering War From Indigenous Perspectives
7. War Voices: Australian Aboriginal Political Revolt Post-First World War 25
8. War Memories and Indigenous Stereotypes: The Fabrication of the Maori Warrior 36
9. “This Day Is Not for You”: The Commemorative Displacement of Black Wars in White Australia 57
10. Allies or Enemies? The Representation of Black Soldiers in Recent French, British, and Canadian Great War Fiction 76
11. Selective Remembering and Motivated Forgetting: The Primacy of National Identity in Australia’s Differential Memorialization of Its Wars 89
12. Memories of Colonial Involvement and Civil Wars
13. The Gurkha with the Khukuri between His Teeth: First World War Postcards and Combat Representations of Nepalese and Indian Colonial Troops 111
14. The Humour of an Indian Soldier’s Memories of the First World War in M.R. Anand’s Across the Black Waters (1939) 143
15. Picturing Control: The Visual Representation of the Kenya Emergency 158
16. The Meaning of the American Civil War in Southern Memory 175
17. Between Nigeria and Biafra: Locating Ethnic Minorities in Narratives of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–70 193
18. Recollections of World Wars
19. Light and Not-So-Light Reflections in the Wipers Times’ Trench Journal and in the Satirical Magazine Punch or The London Charivari (1939–45):What Narratives, What Recollections? 219
20. Writing the Blitz, Listening to the Nation: Personal Narratives of the Blitz and the Construction of a Collective Aural Identity in British Cinema of the Second World War 260
21. The Literature of Intervention: US Participation in the Second World War 277
22. Fighting Fascism? The Second World War in British Far-Right Memory 295
23. The National World War II Museum, New Orleans: An Architectural Interpretation of War 311
24. Remembering and Forgetting War
25. War on Memorialization: Constructive and Destructive Holocaust Remembrance on American Sitcoms, 1990–2000s 327
26. Of Wars, Scars, and Celluloid Memory: Representations of War in Sri Lankan Cinema (2000–10) 348
27. The Spanish-American War on Film: An International Approach 363
28. Wings (William Wellman, 1927) and Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932): The Psychological Drama of Memory and the Modern Pacifist Narrative 379
29. Peacekeeping Forces and Their Filmic Representations: The Case of Peter Kosminsky’s Warriors (1999) and The Promise (2011) 394
30. Intimate Memories of War
31. Requiem for a Tommy: Impersonality and Subjectivity in Stuart Cooper’s Overlord (1975) 415
32. “Our Visit to Waterloo”: Representing the Battlefield in the Memoirs of Charlotte Eaton and Elizabeth Butler 432
33. Historically Estranged Generations: Memorials and the Relevance Effect in Nigel Farndale’s The Blasphemer and Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key 448
34. An “Abominable Epoch”: An Australian Woman’s Perception of Occupied France 464
35. Robert Briffault’s War Letters: A Divided Self under Fire 480
36. Contributors 497
37. Index 511