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The last soldier who saw trench action in the Great War died in 2009. With his passing, all direct memory of the horror of that war ceased memory became history. But Brian Kennedy argues that our collective need to grieve the horrors of the Great War still remains.
In this wide-ranging book, Kennedy looks at a variety of fiction recently written about World War I, from Jacqueline Winspear s...
About the Author
Brian Kennedy is Montreal-born and raised, and now teaches British and postcolonial literature as well as writing courses at Pasadena City College, California. He has PhD in contemporary British literature, and his previous publications include essays on Virginia Woolf, Henry James and Graham Greene, an edited book on California issues and books and academic articles on hockey and Canadian culture. He has held a research fellowship at...
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How do we remember unthinkably awful events such as the The War to End All Wars ? In this book, Kennedy weaves together trauma studies, personal testimony, and creative fiction to suggest that our obsessive retelling of its stories turns the trap of individual memory into the consolation of communication: social, shared, constantly present. If time blurs the pain but preserves the glamour of a catastrophe, then the Great...
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- PublisherFolklore Publishing
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1926677269
- ISBN 13 9781926677262
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages288
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