Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction (1977-2014)

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36477-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 88, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 517 g

Reihe: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature

Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction (1977-2014) offers a comparative analysis of twenty-three First World War novels. Engaging with such themes as war trauma, facial disfigurement, women’s war identities, communal bonds, as well as the concepts of mourning and post-memory, Anna Branach-Kallas and Piotr Sadkowski identify the dominant trends in recent French, British and Canadian fiction about the Great War. Referring to historical, sociological, philosophical and literary sources, they show how, by both consolidating and contesting national myths, fiction continues to construct the 1914-1918 conflict as a cultural trauma, illuminating at the same time some of our most recent ethical concerns.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Branach-Kallas, Anna

Sadkowski, Piotr

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Faces
Between Stigmatisation and Sacralisation: The Officers’ Ward by Marc Dugain
From Destruction to Reconstruction: My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
Facial Disfigurement and Shell Shock: Tell by Frances Itani
Abjection and Precarity: The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre
Aversion and Masks: Toby’s Room by Pat Barker
2 Women
Maternal Pacifism: Dans la guerre by Alice Ferney
Grief and Betrayal: Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore
Gendered Disorder: My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young
Asymmetric Similarities: Deafening by Frances Itani
Empathetic Unsettlement: Les Fleurs d’hiver by Angélique Villeneuve
3 Communities
Egoism and Brutalisation: By a Slow River by Philippe Claudel
Adoptive Kinship: The Heroes’ Welcome by Louisa Young
Community of Memory: Broken Ground by Jack Hodgins
Canada Divided: The Draft Dodger by Louis Caron and A Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin
Community of (Not)Seeing: In Desolate Heaven by Robert Edric
4 Mourners
Psychic Crypt: The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
The Illness of Mourning: Toby’s Room by Pat Barker
The Cult of Mourning: The Great Swindle by Pierre Lemaitre
Infinite Grief: Le Monument. Roman vrai by Claude Duneton
5 Post-Memory
An Intimate “Archaeology of Knowledge”: The Wars by Timothy Findley
Writing as the Act of Sepulchre: The Acacia by Claude Simon
A Family’s Compiègne Wagon: Fields of Glory by Jean Rouaud
Female Seekers: In Pale Battalions by Robert Goddard and Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Homoerotic Post- Memory: Douze lettres d’amour au soldat inconnu by Olivier Barbarant
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Branach-Kallas, Ph.D., D. Litt., is Associate Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. She has published monographs and over seventy articles on corporeality, diaspora, trauma and war, as well as postcolonial and comparative literature in English and French.

Piotr Sadkowski, Ph.D., D. Litt., is Associate Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He has published a monograph and many articles on such topics as war, myth, migration, intertextuality and post-memory in francophone literatures.