Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction (1977-2014)

ISBN-13: 9789004364776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 252 str.

Anna Branach-Kallas;Piotr Sadkowski

Opis

Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction (1977-2014) offers a comparative analysis of twenty-three First World War novels. Engaging with such themes as war trauma, facial disfigurement, women’s war identities, communal bonds, as well as the concepts of mourning and post-memory, Anna Branach-Kallas and Piotr Sadkowski identify the dominant trends in recent French, British and Canadian fiction about the Great War. Referring to historical, sociological, philosophical and literary sources, they show how, by both consolidating and contesting national myths, fiction continues to construct the 1914-1918 conflict as a cultural trauma, illuminating at the same time some of our most recent ethical concerns.

Recenzje

"Significantly, in contrast to the prevailing analytical framework, Branach-Kallas and Sadkowski do not focus on literary representations of combat and front life, but on texts that depict the long-lasting aftermath of the war in order to investigate the psychological and social effects of the conflict and to inquire into why the war refuses to be buried in the past. Comparing Grief explores the "changed reality" after the Great War and analyses the cultural trauma produced by the war in France, Canada, and Britain, focusing on shell-shock and the ensuing disintegration of individual identity and communal bonds. "
- , Katarzyna Wieckowska, in Anglica: An International Journal of English Studies , Vol. 27.3 (2018), pp. 249-255

Spis treści

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1 FacesBetween Stigmatisation and Sacralisation: The Officers' Ward by Marc DugainFrom Destruction to Reconstruction: My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa YoungFacial Disfigurement and Shell Shock: Tell by Frances ItaniAbjection and Precarity: The Great Swindle by Pierre LemaitreAversion and Masks: Toby's Room by Pat Barker2 WomenMaternal Pacifism: Dans la guerre by Alice FerneyGrief and Betrayal: Zennor in Darkness by Helen DunmoreGendered Disorder: My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa YoungAsymmetric Similarities: Deafening by Frances ItaniEmpathetic Unsettlement: Les Fleurs d'hiver by Angélique Villeneuve3 CommunitiesEgoism and Brutalisation: By a Slow River by Philippe ClaudelAdoptive Kinship: The Heroes' Welcome by Louisa YoungCommunity of Memory: Broken Ground by Jack HodginsCanada Divided: The Draft Dodger by Louis Caron and A Secret Between Us by Daniel PoliquinCommunity of (Not)Seeing: In Desolate Heaven by Robert Edric4 MournersPsychic Crypt: The Stone Carvers by Jane UrquhartThe Illness of Mourning: Toby's Room by Pat BarkerThe Cult of Mourning: The Great Swindle by Pierre LemaitreInfinite Grief: Le Monument. Roman vrai by Claude Duneton5 Post-MemoryAn Intimate "Archaeology of Knowledge": The Wars by Timothy FindleyWriting as the Act of Sepulchre: The Acacia by Claude SimonA Family's Compiègne Wagon: Fields of Glory by Jean RouaudFemale Seekers: In Pale Battalions by Robert Goddard and Birdsong by Sebastian FaulksHomoerotic Post- Memory: Douze lettres d'amour au soldat inconnu by Olivier BarbarantConclusionBibliographyIndex