The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz, Martin Löschnigg, Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9783110486001
• eBook ISBN: 9783110391527
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Film & Video
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Media and Cultural Memory/Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: “Have you forgotten yet? …”
• Part 1: ‘Entrenched’(?) Perspectives: The Legacy of the Great War
• Part 2: The Challenge of Form: How to ‘Remember’ the Great War?
• Part 3: Identities: The Great War and National Post-Memories
• Part 4: Interrogations: Cross-Cultural and Trans-Historical (Re)Interpretations of the Great War
• Contributors
• Index of Names
• Index of Titles