Long Shadows: The Second World War in British Fiction and Film - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0810133288 ISBN 13: 9780810133280

Casa editrice: Northwestern Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

Few countries attribute as much importance to the Second World War and its memory as Britain; arguably nowhere else has this conflict developed such longevity in cultural memory and retained such presence in contemporary culture. Long Shadows is about how literature and film have helped shape this process in Britain. More precisely, the essays collected here suggest that this is a continuous work in progress, subject to transgenerational revisions, political expediencies, commercial considerations, and the vicissitudes of popular taste. It would indeed be more accurate to speak of the meanings (plural) that the war has been given at various moments in British cultural life. These semantic variations and fluctuations in cultural import are rooted in the specificity of the British war experience, in the political aftermath of the war in Europe, and in its significance for Britain’s postwar position on the global stage. In other words, the books and films discussed in these essays respond to how the war has been interpreted and remembered; what is at stake is the way in which the war has been emplotted as a hegemonic cultural narrative about Britain.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

PETRA RAU is a senior lecturer in modern literature at the University of East Anglia and the author of Our Nazis: Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Literature and Film.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Northwestern Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0810133288
• ISBN 13: 9780810133280
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 309
• Redattore: Rau Petra