War Experience and Memory in Global Cultures Since 1914

ISBN-13: 9781138592544 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 282 str.

Angela K. Smith; Sandra Barkhof

Opis

This collection brings together essays that explore and develop representations of war experience from 1914 to the present, through the lens of memory. Historians, art historians and literary scholars explore a range of different textual spaces, asking how our understanding of the past might impact on our interpretations of the present.

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Introduction  Angela K. Smith and Sandra Barkhof  Part I: Experiencing War: Media Spaces of the First World War  1. War at a Glance: Geopolitics and the Rise of Panoramic Mapping in the British Press (1914-1918)  Felix de Montety  2. "The Native Nobility of Australian Womanhood": Newspaper Representations of Australian Women on the Home Front, 1914-1918  Rhys Cooper  3. "Nun gilt’s, ihr deutschen Frauen! Die Zeit ist ernst und groß": Reporting the First World War in German Girls’ Magazines  Anja Tschörtner  Part II: Experiencing War: Ethnic Spaces  4. "America Behind Barbed Wire": Artistic Representations of Japanese-American Internment During World War II  Catherine Ann Collins  5. African-American War Poets  Mary F. Brewer  6. The Iraqi Prose Poem as a Legacy of the Experience of the 1980s Iraq/Iran War  Adhraa A. Naser  Part III: Remembering War: Children and War Memory  7. "So Strangely Works the Mind of a Child": Childhood, Memory and the First World War  Rosie Kennedy  8. "Your Father’s in the Front Room": Interviewing the Children of Far East Prisoners of War  Terry Smyth  9. Pawns, Martyrs, Fighters and Innocents: The Mediated Children of Israel-Palestine  Jeanne Ellen Clark  Part IV: Remembering War: Textual Spaces  10. "My War Experiences in Samoa": Pro-Colonialism in First World War Memoirs and Eye Witness Accounts  Sandra Barkhof  11. Writing Wrongs: Contemporary European Crime Fiction and the Spectre of Euro-Fascism in the Novels of Didier Daeninckx, Arne Dahl and Jo Nesbø  Martin Hurcombe  12. Remembering the Falklands War: Literary Adolescence and the Legacies of Nationhood  Jon Begley