ABSTRACT

This edited collection explores and develops representations of war experience from 1914 to the ongoing conflicts of the 21st century, through the specific lens of memory. It builds on recent explorations of the importance of war experience in shaping cultural memory that have focused on the aftermath of the First World War and the Second World War, particularly through Holocaust studies. These essays, by a range of international and interdisciplinary scholars, broaden the scope considerably, examining the alternate spaces of the First World War and those that followed it through a range of different media, offering an artistic trajectory to the centennial commemorations of 2014-18.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

part I|67 pages

Experiencing War

chapter 1|21 pages

War at a Glance

Geopolitics and the Rise of Panoramic Mapping in the British Press (1914–1918)

chapter 2|20 pages

“The Native Nobility of Australian Womanhood”

Newspaper Representations of Australian Women on the Home Front, 1914–1918

chapter 3|24 pages

“Nun gilt’s, ihr deutschen Frauen! Die Zeit ist ernst und groß.” 1

Reporting the First World War in German Girls’ Magazines

part II|62 pages

Experiencing War

chapter 4|21 pages

“America Behind Barbed Wire”

Artistic Representations of Japanese-American Internment During World War Two

chapter 5|21 pages

African-American War Poets

part III|61 pages

Remembering War

chapter 7|18 pages

“So Strangely Works the Mind of a Child”

Childhood, Memory, and the First World War

chapter 8|20 pages

“Your Father’s in the Front Room”

Interviewing the Children of Far East Prisoners of War

chapter 9|21 pages

Pawns, Martyrs, Fighters, and Innocents

The Mediated Children of Israel–Palestine

part IV|66 pages

Remembering War

chapter 10|23 pages

“My War Experiences in Samoa”

Pro-colonialism in First World War Memoirs and Eyewitness Accounts

chapter 11|22 pages

Writing Wrongs

Contemporary European Crime Fiction and the Spectre of Euro-Fascism in the Novels of Didier Daeninckx, Arne Dahl, and Jo Nesbø

chapter 12|19 pages

Remembering the Falklands War

Literary Adolescence and the Legacies of Nationhood