The “Lost Battalion” of the Argonne and the Origin of the Platoon Movie: Race, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Nationality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction: “Have you forgotten yet? …” 1
4. Part 1: ‘Entrenched’(?) Perspectives: The Legacy of the Great War
5. Revisiting All Quiet on the Western Front 17
6. Wilfred Owen and His War Poetry in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale and Regeneration/Behind the Lines 29
7. It Still Goes On: Trauma and the Memory of the First World War 43
8. Working Through the Working-Class War: The Battle of the Somme in Contemporary British Literature by Alan Sillitoe and Ted Hughes 59
9. A Poisonous Paradox: Representations of Gas Warfare in Post-Memory Films of the Great War 81
10. The Great War, the Iraq War, and Postmodern America: Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds and the Radical Isolation of Today’s U.S. Veterans 95
11. Part 2: The Challenge of Form: How to ‘Remember’ the Great War?
12. The Two “All Quiets”: Representations of Modern Warfare in the Film Adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues 109
13. “I shall lie broken against this broken earth”: William March’s Company K on the Screen 121
14. The Great War and British Docudrama: The Somme, My Boy Jack and Walter’s War 135
15. “Like dying on a stage”: Theatricality and Remembrance in Anglo-Canadian Drama on the First World War 153
16. The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction 171
17. Comics/Graphic Novels/Bandes Dessinées and the Representation of the Great War 187
18. What Price Justice? French Crime Fiction and the Great War 201
19. Part 3: Identities: The Great War and National Post-Memories
20. Remembering The Wars 219
21. Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road: Transcultural (Post-)Memory and Identity in Canadian World War I Fiction 239
22. Nostalgia for the Nation? The First World War in Australian Novels of the 1970s and 1980s 255
23. Even More Australian: Australian Great War Novels in the Twenty-First Century 273
24. National Versions of the Great War: Modern Australian Anzac Cinema 289
25. The “Lost Battalion” of the Argonne and the Origin of the Platoon Movie: Race, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Nationality 305
26. Place, Time and Memory in Italian Cinema of the Great War 321
27. The Great War and the Easter Rising in Tom Phelan’s The Canal Bridge: A Literary Response to the Politics of Commemoration in Ireland 335
28. The Great War through ‘Great October’: 1914/1917 in Russian Memory 349
29. Part 4: Interrogations: Cross-Cultural and Trans-Historical (Re) Interpretations of the Great War
30. “They wouldn’t end it with any of us alive, now would they?”: The First World War in Cold War Era Films 365
31. Post-Colonial Melancholia and the Representation of West Indian Volunteers in the British Great War Televisual Memory 385
32. Fictional Accounts of the East Africa Campaign 397
33. Voices From the Edge: De-Centering Master Narratives in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers 411
34. Women and World War I: ‘Postcolonial’ Imaginative Rewritings of the Great War 427
35. Contributors 443
36. Index of Names 451
37. Index of Titles 455