Trauma, Primitivism and the First World War : The Making of Frank Prewett

Porter, Joy

Bloomsbury Academic（2022/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350199972
• DDC分類 811.54

Full Description

This book examines the extraordinary life of Frank "Toronto" Prewett and the history of trauma, literary expression, and the power of self-representation after WWI.

Joy Porter sheds new light on how the First World War affected the Canadian poet, and how war-induced trauma or "shell-shock" caused him to pretend to be an indigenous North American. Porter investigates his influence of, and acceptance by, some of the most significant literary figures of the time, including Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden, Wilfred Owen and Robert Graves.

In doing so, Porter skillfully connects a number of historiographies that usually exist in isolation from one another and rarely meet. By bringing together a history of the WWI era, early twentieth century history, Native American history, the history of literature, and the history of class Porter expertly crafts a valuable contribution to the field.

Contents

Chapter 1: Being Frank Prewett

Chapter 2: The Complicated Experience of Combat in the First World War
Chapter 3: "Shell-Shock"
Chapter 4: Primitivism, "Toronto" Prewett & Dr William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864-1922)
Chapter 5: Adopting the "Toronto" Personality at Lennel & Meeting Siegfried Sassoon
Chapter 6: Prewett's Friendship with Robert Graves & Trauma Poetry
Chapter 7: An "Iroquois" at Oxford and Garsington
Chapter 8: Repatriated to Suburbanizing Canada: November 1919- January 1921
Chapter 9: "Mad in the Peace": Farming & Trauma Poetry
Chapter 10: Prewett Responds to Changes in the Land
Chapter 11: Conclusion: Protest Memory and Soft Primitivism