The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film
ISBN-10
311039152X
ISBN-13
9783110391527
Category
History
Pages
466
Language
English
Published
2014-10-14
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Authors
Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz

Description

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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