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

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface by Andrew Monnickendam
Introduction
Part I Post-Memorial Engagements
	Chapter 1 Peace Walls and No-Go Zones: A Portrait of a Generation Caught in Between in Stacey Gregg’s Shibboleth
	Chapter 2 Postmemorial Work and the Creative Reconstruction of Identity in Nora Krug’s Belonging
	Chapter 3 Moi, René Tardi, Prisonnier de Guerre Au Stalag IIB: Postmemory and Anachronistic Narration in Tardi’s Graphic Post-Memoir
	Chapter 4 Too Weary to Weep: Women and Children in Female Nigerian War Literature
	Chapter 5 If I Were Dead “It would sell like hotcakes!”: Who Gets to Publish Their Holocaust Diary?
	Chapter 6 The Silences of War in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
	Chapter 7 Before the Outbreak of What Used to Be Known as the Great War: Ironic Nostalgia in Isabel Colegate’s The Shooting Party (1980)
	Chapter 8 The Limits(?) of the Postmemory Family Story: The Case of Peter Balakian’s Black Dog of Fate
	Chapter 9 Algerian Families, Imperial Loyalties and the Memory of WWI in Le Temps de la douleur by Bahia Kiared
	Chapter 10 Charting the Unwritten: Revisiting Shared Historical Trauma in Novels by Ruta Sepetys and Günter Grass
Part II The Aesthetics of War
	Chapter 11 “In the Box They See/Young Bodies Hearsed.”1: (Imaginary) Visions of War in the Poetics of Iain Crichton Smith
	Chapter 12 Steven Berkoff’s Sink the Belgrano: Trapped Between an ‘Anti-Maggie’ Stance and Thatcherite Embodiment
	Chapter 13 When the Strip Teases: Humour, Sexism, and the Myth of the US Army in Will Eisner’s War Comics
	Chapter 14 Mythic History and Memory: The Making of an Assassin in Jo Nesbø’s The Redbreast
	Chapter 15 The Representation of the Spanish Civil War in Contemporary British Fiction: The Cases of C.J. Sansom and Kate Lord Brown
	Chapter 16 “Your Cause Is Just a Cause Too”: Ireland’s Suppressed Great War Stories in Mary O’Donnell’s “Fortune on a Fair Day”1
	Chapter 17 Silence, Discontinuity of Narrative, and Non-Remembrance in Christine Dwyer Hickey’s Last Train from Liguria
	Chapter 18 Cold War Romanian Tempo-Localities as the Legacy of WWII in Patrick McGuiness’s The Last Hundred Days and Paul Bailey’s Kitty and Virgil
	Chapter 19 A Post-memorial Aesthetics of Contemporary Haunting: The Architectural uncanny in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room
	Chapter 20 “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
	Chapter 21 Detecting the Past: Engaging with the Nazi Past Via Contemporary Crime Novels
	Chapter 22 World War II and the Cold War as Counterfactual Fiction
Beyond Post-memory: A Conversation
Index