"Beyond Post-Memory is an exploration of war narratives through the lens of postmemory, offering a critical re-evaluation of how contemporary literature and cultural products reshape our understanding of past conflicts. This volume presents a rich tapestry of perspectives, drawing from an array of conflicts and incorporating insights from international experts across various disciplines, including contemporary literature, film studies, visual arts, and cultural studies. It critically builds upon and extends Marianne Hirsch's concept of postmemory, engaging with complex themes like the ethical dimensions of war writing, the authenticity of representations, and the creative power of art in reimagining traumatic events. This study not only challenges traditional boundaries in war literature and memory studies but also resonates with contemporary concerns about societal engagement with violent pasts, making it a significant addition to scholarly discourse and essential reading for those interested in the intersection of history, memory, and literature"--
Beyond Post Memory is an exploration of war narratives through the lens of postmemory, offering a critical re-evaluation of how contemporary literature and cultural products reshape our understanding of past conflicts. This volume presents a rich tapestry of perspectives, drawing from an array of conflicts and incorporating insights from international experts across various disciplines, including contemporary literature, film studies, visual arts, and cultural studies. It critically builds upon and extends Marianne Hirsch's concept of postmemory, engaging with complex themes like the ethical dimensions of war writing, the authenticity of representations, and the creative power of art in reimagining traumatic events. This study not only challenges traditional boundaries in war literature and memory studies but also resonates with contemporary concerns about societal engagement with violent pasts, making it a significant addition to scholarly discourse and essential reading for those interested in the intersection of history, memory, and literature.
This critical collection blends academic insights with diverse perspectives, challenging traditional representations of war and offering a fresh, ethically nuanced approach to understanding historys traumatic legacies in literature and culture.
List of Contributors
Preface- Andrew Monnickendam
Introduction- David Owen and Cristina Pividori
PART-1 Post-Memorial Engagements
Peace Walls and No-Go Zones: A Portrait of a Generation Caught in Between in
Stacey Greggs Shibboleth -Marķa Gavińa Costero
Postmemorial Work and the Creative Reconstruction of Identity in Nora Krugs
Belonging-
Marķa Jesśs Martķnez-Alfaro
Moi, Rene Tardi, Prisonnier de Guerre Au Stalag IIB: Postmemory and
Anachronistic Narration in Tardis Graphic Post-Memoir -Umberto Rossi
Too Weary to Weep. Women and Children in Female Nigerian War Literature
-Paula Garcķa-Ramķrez
If I Were Dead It would sell like hotcakes!: Who Gets to Publish Their
Holocaust Diary? -Ravenel Richardson
The Silences of War in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies Half of a Yellow Sun-
Thomas Jay Lynn
Before the outbreak of what used to be known as the Great War: Ironic
Nostalgia in Isabel Colegates The Shooting Party (1980) -Cristina Pividori
The Limits(?) of the Postmemory Family Story: The Case of Peter Balakians
Black Dog of Fate- Marzena Sokoowska-Pary
Algerian Families, Imperial Loyalties, and the Memory of the First World in
Le Temps de la douleur by Bahia Kiared -Anna Branach-Kallas
Charting the Unwritten: Revisiting Shared Historical Trauma in Novels by Ruta
Sepetys and Günter Grass -Eugenijus muida
PART-II The Aesthetics of War
1. In the box they see / young bodies hearsed. (Imaginary) Visions of War
in the Poetics of Iain Crichton Smith-Stéphanie Noirard
Steven Berkoffs Sink the Belgrano: Trapped Between an Anti-Maggie Stance
and Thatcherite Embodiment- Andrea Roxana Bellot
When the Strip Teases: Humour, Sexism, and the Myth of the US Army in Will
Eisners War Comics- Nicola Paladin
Mythic History and Memory: The Making of an Assassin in Jo Nesbųs The
Redbreast -Phyllis Lassner
The Representation of the Spanish Civil War in Contemporary British Fiction:
The Cases of C.J. Sansom and Kate Lord Brown - Alberto Lįzaro
Your Cause is Just a Cause Too: Irelands Suppressed Great War Stories in
Mary O'Donnell's "Fortune on a Fair Day"-Antķa Romįn-Sotelo
Silence, Discontinuity of Narrative, and Non-Remembrance in Christine Dwyer
Hickeys Last Train from Liguria David Owen
Cold War Romanian Tempo-Localities as the Legacy of World War Two in Patrick
McGuinesss The Last Hundred Days and Paul Baileys Kitty and Virgil -Įgnes
Harasztos
A Postmemorial Aesthetics of Contemporary Haunting: The Architectural uncanny
in Rachel Seifferts The Dark Room- Christina Howes
Peoples pasts, you know, being so much more interesting than their
futures: The Ethics of Telling the War Backwards in Sarah Waterss The Night
Watch Katia Marcellin
Detecting the Past: Engaging with the Nazi Past Via Contemporary Crime
Novels- Christine Berberich
World War Two and The Cold War as Counterfactual Fiction- Kornelije Kvas
Beyond Postmemory: A Conversation- Kate McLoughlin, Rachel Seiffert and Jay
Winter
Index
Cristina Pividori is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Universitat Autņnoma de Barcelona. Her main research interest is war representation, particularly the aesthetic and ethical challenges inherent in the rendering of the major conflicts of recent times. She has published broadly in these areas. She is also the co-editor of Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in The Great War. That Better Whiles May Follow Worse (2016) and The Spectre of Defeat: Experience, Memory and Post-Memory (2021).
David Owen is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Universitat Autņnoma de Barcelona. His research interests focus mainly on English novelistic fiction of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Particularly, he is interested in the history of the English Novel, its origins and development, andwithin thatthe formal and artistic properties of the epistolary novel as it affected and was affected by socio-political changes in fiction writing and reading. In terms of individual writers, his research is principally concerned with the works of the English novelist, Jane Austen. He has published broadly in these ambits. He is also the co-editor of Writings of Persuasion and Dissonance in The Great War. That Better Whiles May Follow Worse (2016) and The Spectre of Defeat: Experience, Memory and Post-Memory (2021).
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