The Long Aftermath

Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016
Herausgeber: Bragança, Manuel; Tame, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

This broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans' individual and collective memories of the "Long Second World War" and the ways in which they have shaped the continent's cultural heritage. Offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and other cultural forms to illuminate European public memory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 589g
• ISBN-13: 9781785338205
• ISBN-10: 178533820X
• Artikelnr.: 49798301

Autorenporträt

Manuel Bragança is Assistant Professor in French Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at University College Dublin, Ireland, where he is also a member of the Centre for War Studies and of the Humanities Institute. His research interests focus on the historiography and memories of the Second World War in France and Europe. He is an editor of the online research platform H-France and an assistant editor of the journal Open Cultural Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgements
Foreword: Between World Wars: Remembering War in Europe before 1945
Richard Overy
Introduction: The Long Aftermath of the Long Second World War
Manuel Bragança and Peter Tame
PART I: SPAIN
Chapter 1. Violence and the History and Memory of the Spanish Civil War:
Beyond the Crisis of Inherited Narrative Frameworks
Pablo Sánchez León
Chapter 2. Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía
Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama
Jean Andrews
Chapter 3. On Civil-War Memory in Spanish Women's Narratives: The Example
of Cristina Fernández Cubas' Cosas que ya no existen
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
PART II: THE UNITED KINGDOM
Chapter 4. Narrating Britain's War: A 'Four Nations and More' Approach to
the People's War
Daniel Travers and Paul Ward
Chapter 5. 'Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans': the Representation of
Germans in British Second World War Films
Robert Murphy
Chapter 6. Memory and Nation in British Narratives of the Second World War
after 1945
Mark Rawlinson
PART III: FRANCE
Chapter 7. A Capital Problem: The Town of Vichy, the Second World War, and
the Politics of Identity
Kirrily Freeman
Chapter 8. Tracking the Past in the Places and Spaces of Patrick Modiano's
Early Fiction
Peter Tame
Chapter 9. Vercors and the Second World War
Cristina Solé-Castells
PART IV: GERMANY
Chapter 10. Reconstructing D-Day Memory: How Contemporary Politics made
Germans Victims of the War
Harold J. Goldberg
Chapter 11. Memories of World War II in German Film after 1945
Christiane Schönfeld
Chapter 12. Ilse Aichinger's Novel The Greater Hope. Poetic Narrative to
Deal with Trauma
Marko Pajevic
PART V: ITALY
Chapter 13. Victimhood Asserted: Italian Memories of World War II
Richard J. B. Bosworth
Chapter 14. Re-picturing the Myth: American Characters in Post-War Popular
Italian Cinema
Daniela Treveri Gennari
Chapter 15. Italian Resistance Writing in the Years of the 'Second
Republic'
Philip Cooke
PART VI: POLAND
Chapter 16. The Second World War in Present-Day Polish Memory and Politics
Andrzej Paczkowski
Chapter 17. Wounded Memory. Rhetorical Strategies Used in Public Discourse
on the Katyn Massacre
Urszula Jarecka
Chapter 18. The Second World War in Recent Polish Counterfactual and
Alternative (Hi)stories
Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz
PART VII: USSR / RUSSIA
Chapter 19. History Politics and the Changing Meaning of Victory Day in
Contemporary Russia
Markku Kangaspuro
Chapter 20. War and Patriotism: Russian War Films and the Lessons for Today
David Gillespie
Chapter 21. Russian Fiction at War
Greg Carleton
Afterword: Memories of War: From the Sacred to the Secular
Jay Winter
Index