(Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture : Beyond Post-Memory

Pividori, Cristina (EDT)/ Owen, David (EDT)

Routledge（2024/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 294 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032663661
• DDC分類 809.93358

Full Description

(Re)Writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Beyond Post-Memory is an exploration of war narratives through the lens of postmemory, offering a critical re-evaluation of how contemporary literature and cultural products reshape our understanding of past conflicts. This volume presents a rich tapestry of perspectives, drawing from an array of conflicts and incorporating insights from international experts across various disciplines, including contemporary literature, film studies, visual arts, and cultural studies. It critically builds upon and extends Marianne Hirsch's concept of postmemory, engaging with complex themes like the ethical dimensions of war writing, the authenticity of representations, and the creative power of art in reimagining traumatic events. This study not only challenges traditional boundaries in war literature and memory studies but also resonates with contemporary concerns about societal engagement with violent pasts, making it a significant addition to scholarly discourse and essential reading for those interested in the intersection of history, memory, and literature.

Contents

List of Contributors

Preface- Andrew Monnickendam

Introduction- David Owen and Cristina Pividori

PART-1 Post-Memorial Engagements

Peace Walls and No-Go Zones: A Portrait of a Generation Caught in Between in Stacey Gregg's Shibboleth -María Gaviña Costero

Postmemorial Work and the Creative Reconstruction of Identity in Nora Krug's Belonging-

María Jesús Martínez-Alfaro

Moi, Rene Tardi, Prisonnier de Guerre Au Stalag IIB: Postmemory and Anachronistic Narration in Tardi's Graphic Post-Memoir -Umberto Rossi

"Too Weary to Weep." Women and Children in Female Nigerian War Literature -Paula García-Ramírez

If I Were Dead "It would sell like hotcakes!": Who Gets to Publish Their Holocaust Diary? -Ravenel Richardson

The Silences of War in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun- Thomas Jay Lynn

"Before the outbreak of what used to be known as the Great War:" Ironic Nostalgia in Isabel Colegate's The Shooting Party (1980) -Cristina Pividori

The Limits(?) of the Postmemory Family Story: The Case of Peter Balakian's Black Dog of Fate- Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż

Algerian Families, Imperial Loyalties, and the Memory of the First World in Le Temps de la douleur by Bahia Kiared -Anna Branach-Kallas

Charting the Unwritten: Revisiting Shared Historical Trauma in Novels by Ruta Sepetys and Günter Grass -Eugenijus Žmuida

PART-II The Aesthetics of War

1. "In the box they see / young bodies hearsed." (Imaginary) Visions of War in the Poetics of Iain Crichton Smith-Stéphanie Noirard

Steven Berkoff's Sink the Belgrano: Trapped Between an 'Anti-Maggie' Stance and Thatcherite Embodiment- Andrea Roxana Bellot
When the Strip Teases: Humour, Sexism, and the Myth of the US Army in Will Eisner's War Comics- Nicola Paladin

Mythic History and Memory: The Making of an Assassin in Jo Nesbø's The Redbreast -Phyllis Lassner

The Representation of the Spanish Civil War in Contemporary British Fiction: The Cases of C.J. Sansom and Kate Lord Brown - Alberto Lázaro

"Your Cause is Just a Cause Too:" Ireland's Suppressed Great War Stories in Mary O'Donnell's "Fortune on a Fair Day"-Antía Román-Sotelo

Silence, Discontinuity of Narrative, and Non-Remembrance in Christine Dwyer Hickey's Last Train from Liguria - David Owen

Cold War Romanian Tempo-Localities as the Legacy of World War Two in Patrick McGuiness's The Last Hundred Days and Paul Bailey's Kitty and Virgil -Ágnes Harasztos

A Postmemorial Aesthetics of Contemporary Haunting: The Architectural uncanny in Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room- Christina Howes

"People's pasts, you know, being so much more interesting than their futures:" The Ethics of Telling the War Backwards in Sarah Waters's The Night Watch - Katia Marcellin

Detecting the Past: Engaging with the Nazi Past Via Contemporary Crime Novels- Christine Berberich

World War Two and The Cold War as Counterfactual Fiction- Kornelije Kvas

Beyond Postmemory: A Conversation- Kate McLoughlin, Rachel Seiffert and Jay Winter

Index