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Race, empire and First World War writing

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  • Description

    "This volume brings together an international cast of scholars from a variety of fields to examine the racial and colonial aspects of the First World War and show how issues of race and empire shaped its literature and culture. The global nature of the First World War is fast becoming the focus of intense enquiry.

    This book analyses European discourses about colonial participation and recovers the war experience of different racial, ethnic and national groups, including the Chinese, Vietnamese, Indians, Maori, West Africans and Jamaicans. It also investigates testimonial and literary writings - from war diaries and nursing memoirs to Irish, New Zealand and African American literature - and analyses processes of memory and commemoration in the former colonies and dominions. Drawing upon archival, literary and visual material, the book provides a compelling account of the conflict's reverberations in Europe and its empires and reclaims the multiracial dimensions of war memory"--Back cover.

  • Place
  • Other Id

    D639.A7 RAC (Library of Congress Call Number)

    84059 (Cat ID)

    84001 (Presto content ID)

  • Department

Images and documents

Catalogue

  • Object Type
  • Name/Title
    Race, empire and First World War writing
  • Primary Maker

    Santanu Das (Editor of compilation)

  • Contributor/Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  • Place
  • Date
    2013
  • Physical Description

    xiii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

  • ISBN/ISSN
    9780521509848
    9781107664494
  • Level of Current Record
    Bib record
  • Member Object

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  • Edition/State/Version
    First paperback edition
  • Subject Category
  • Content
    Introduction / Santanu Das
    Part I. Voices and Experiences
    1. 'An army of workers': Chinese indentured labour in First World War France / Paul J. Bailey
    2. Sacrifices, sex, race: Vietnamese experiences in the First World War / Kimloan Hill
    3. Indians at home, Mesopotamia and France, 1914-1918: towards an intimate history / Santanu Das 4. 'We don't want to die for nothing': Askari at war in German East Africa, 1914-1918 / Michelle Moyd
    5. France's legacy to Demba Mboup? A Senegalese Griot (and his descendants) remember his military service during the First World War / Joe Lunn
    Part II. Perceptions and Proximities
    6. Representing Otherness: African, Indian, and European soldiers' letters and memoirs / Christian Koller
    7. Living apart together: Belgian civilians and non-European troops and workers in wartime Flanders / Dominiek Dendooven
    8. Nursing the Other: the representation of colonial troops in French and British First World War nursing memoirs / Alison S. Fell
    9. Imperial captivities: colonial prisoners of war in Germany and the Ottoman Empire, 1914-1918 / Heather Jones
    10. Images of Te Hokowhitu A Tu in the First World War / Christopher Pugsley
    Part III. Nationalism, Memory and Literature
    11. 'He was black, he was a white man, and a dinkum Aussie': race and empire in revisiting the Anzac legend / Peter Stanley
    12. The quiet Western Front: the First World War and New Zealand memory / Jock Phillips
    13. 'Writing out of opinions': Irish experience and the theatre of the First World War / Keith Jeffery
    14. 'Heaven grant you strength to fight the battle for your race': nationalism, Pan-Africanism and the First World War in Jamaican memory / Richard Smith
    15. Not only war: the First World War and African American literature / Mark Whalan
    Afterword: Death and the afterlife: Britain's colonies and dominions Michele Barrett.
  • Public Access Text

    [Keywords: World War One]

    Includes bibliographical references and index.

  • Collection Type
    Reading Room
  • Copyright
    All rights reserved
  • Last Update
    19 Dec 2023

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