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