Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Redaktion: Boender, Niels

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents 'homecoming' as an analytical lens to better understand veterans' return and reintegration after conflict. Looking across times, places, and disciplines, the collection centres both historical and representational approaches to veterancy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040318058
• Artikelnr.: 73383113

Autorenporträt

Niels Boender is a United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in late-and post-colonial East African political and intellectual history. He has published on the legacies of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, most recently published in the Journal of Social History .

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
NIELS BOENDER
Part I
Spectacles of Homecoming
1 Hometown Heroes of the British Empire: English Canada's Homecomings of
the Great War, 1915-19
ERIC STORY
2 Auf Wiedersehen, Soldat: Does a Soldier Ever Truly Return Home?
KIRSTEN E. KUMPF BAELE
Part II
Emotions and Homecoming
3 'Strangers at Home': Stalag Luft III's Kriegies Return
KRISTEN ALEXANDER
4 (Re)Making Home After Civil War: Exploring Former Child Soldiers'
Reinsertion Imageries in the DRC
PAULINE ZERLA
5 The Shattered Home: Exploring the Consequences of Unresolved Conflicts on
the Concept of Home in Kashmiri Secessionist Movements
SHIPRA SHUKLA
PART III
Conflicted Homecomings
6 When the Post-War Isn't Permanent: Coming Home in the Age of Britain's
'Small Wars'
TAYLOR SOJA
7 'Walking on the Ground Hurts-Like Walking on a Burn:/ On the Burned
Aching Carcass of the World' or: Where Is a Veteran at Home?
ELAZAR ELHANAN
8 'Have you forgotten that I am one of you?' Mau Mau Homecomings in Late
and Post-Colonial Kenya
NIELS BOENDER
9 Invisible Soldiers, Impossible War: Veterans of the Algerian War of
Independence Return to France
Anndal NARAYANAN
Index