The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

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The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

Edited by: Martin Löschnigg
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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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Volume 18 | Media and Cultural Memory

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The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) ‘national’ memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its ‘remembrance’ in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

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Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż, University of Warsaw, Poland;
Martin Löschnigg, University of Graz, Austria.

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Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction: “Have you forgotten yet? …” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part 1: ‘Entrenched’(?) Perspectives: The Legacy of the Great War
Revisiting All Quiet on the Western Front Margot Norris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
Wilfred Owen and His War Poetry in Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale and Regeneration/Behind the Lines Caroline Perret Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
It Still Goes On: Trauma and the Memory of the First World War Ross J. Wilson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Working Through the Working-Class War: The Battle of the Somme in Contemporary British Literature by Alan Sillitoe and Ted Hughes Marlene A. Briggs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
A Poisonous Paradox: Representations of Gas Warfare in Post-Memory Films of the Great War Paul Skrebels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
The Great War, the Iraq War, and Postmodern America: Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds and the Radical Isolation of Today’s U.S. Veterans Ty Hawkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	95
Part 2: The Challenge of Form: How to ‘Remember’ the Great War?
The Two “All Quiets”: Representations of Modern Warfare in the Film Adaptations of Erich Maria Remarque’s Im Westen nichts Neues Thomas F. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	109
“I shall lie broken against this broken earth”: William March’s Company K on the Screen Marek Paryż Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
The Great War and British Docudrama: The Somme, My Boy Jack and Walter’s War Michael Paris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
“Like dying on a stage”: Theatricality and Remembrance in Anglo-Canadian Drama on the First World War Martin Löschnigg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	153
The Great War Re-Remembered: Allohistory and Allohistorical Fiction David Malcolm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	171
Comics/Graphic Novels/Bandes Dessinées and the Representation of the Great War Phil Fitzsimmons and Daniel Reynaud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
What Price Justice? French Crime Fiction and the Great War Jean Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Part 3: Identities: The Great War and National Post-Memories
Remembering The Wars Sherrill Grace Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road: Transcultural (Post-)Memory and Identity in Canadian World War I Fiction Hanna Teichler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
Nostalgia for the Nation? The First World War in Australian Novels of the 1970s and 1980s Christina Spittel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
Even More Australian: Australian Great War Novels in the Twenty-First Century Clare Rhoden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	273
National Versions of the Great War: Modern Australian Anzac Cinema Daniel Reynaud Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	289
The “Lost Battalion” of the Argonne and the Origin of the Platoon Movie: Race, Ethnicity, and the Transformation of American Nationality Richard Slotkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	305
Place, Time and Memory in Italian Cinema of the Great War Maurizio Cinquegrani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
The Great War and the Easter Rising in Tom Phelan’s The Canal Bridge: A Literary Response to the Politics of Commemoration in Ireland Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
The Great War through ‘Great October’: 1914/1917 in Russian Memory Angela Brintlinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Part 4: Interrogations: Cross-Cultural and Trans-Historical (Re) Interpretations of the Great War
“They wouldn’t end it with any of us alive, now would they?”: The First World War in Cold War Era Films Geert Buelens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	365
Post-Colonial Melancholia and the Representation of West Indian Volunteers in the British Great War Televisual Memory Richard Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	385
Fictional Accounts of the East Africa Campaign Anne Samson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	397
Voices From the Edge: De-Centering Master Narratives in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers Alicia Fahey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
Women and World War I: ‘Postcolonial’ Imaginative Rewritings of the Great War Brigitte Johanna Glaser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	443
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	451
Index of Titles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	455