Although war memoirs constitute a rich, varied literary form, they are often dismissed by historians as unreliable. This collection of essays is one of the first to explore the modern war memoir, revealing the genre’s surprising capacity for breadth and sophistication while remaining sensitive to the challenges it poses for scholars. Covering conflicts from the Napoleonic era to today, the studies gathered here consider how memoirs have been used to transmit particular views of war even as they have emerged within specific social and political contexts.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Chapter 1. Making Sense of the Muddle: War Memoirs and the Culture of Remembering
Philip Dwyer
Chapter 2. War Memoirs, Witnessing and Silence
Jay Winter
Chapter 3. ‘A Lively School of Writing’: George Gleig, Moyle Sherer and the Romantic Military Memoir
Neil Ramsey
Chapter 4. ‘The Tallest Pine in the Political Forest’: Race and Slavery in the Confederate Veteran’s Memoir, 1866–1915
Craig A. Warren
Chapter 5. British Memoirs and Memories of the Great War
Ian Isherwood
Chapter 6. A Cog in the Machine of History? Japanese Memoirs of Total War (1937–45)
Aaron William Moore
Chapter 7. Post-Soviet Russian Memoirs of the Second World War
Roger D. Markwick
Chapter 8. Reimagining the Yugoslav Partisan Epic
Vesna Drapac
Chapter 9. The War That Was Not: 1948 Israeli War Memoirs
Ilan Pappe
Chapter 10. Remembering the ‘Endless’ Partition: From Memoirs about the 1947 Conflict to the Post-Memoir
Tarun K. Saint
Chapter 11. ‘To Be Made Over’: Vietnamese-American Re-education Camp Narratives
Subarno Chattarji
Chapter 12. Memoir Writing as Narrative Therapy: A South African Border War Veteran’s Story
Gary Baines
Chapter 13. Pugnacity, Pain and Professionalism: British Combat Memoirs from Afghanistan, 2006–14
Joanna Bourke
Index
Über den Autor
Philip Dwyer is Professor in Modern European History and Director of the Centre for the History of Violence at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His recent publications include Theatres of Violence: Massacre, Mass Killing and Atrocity throughout History, coedited with Lyndall Ryan (2012). His monograph Napoleon: The Path to Power, 1769-1799 (2008) won the Australian National Biography Award.
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