In its totality, the Long Second World Warextending from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War to the end of hostilities in 1945has exerted enormous influence over European culture. Bringing together leading historians, sociologists, and literary and film scholars, this broadly interdisciplinary volume investigates Europeans individual and collective memories and the ways in which they have shaped the continents cultural heritage. Focusing on the major combatant nationsSpain, Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland, and Russiait offers thoroughly contextualized explorations of novels, memoirs, films, and a host of other cultural forms to illuminate European public memory.
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Acknowledgements
Foreword: Between World Wars: Remembering War in Europe before 1945
Richard Overy
Introduction: The Long Aftermath of the Long Second World War
Manuel Bragança and Peter Tame
PART I: SPAIN
Chapter 1. Violence and the History and Memory of the Spanish Civil War: Beyond the Crisis of Inherited Narrative Frameworks
Pablo Sánchez León
Chapter 2. Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama
Jean Andrews
Chapter 3. On Civil-War Memory in Spanish Womens Narratives: The Example of Cristina Fernández CubasCosas que ya no existen
Alison Ribeiro de Menezes
PART II: THE UNITED KINGDOM
Chapter 4. Narrating Britains War: A Four Nations and More Approach to the Peoples War
Daniel Travers and Paul Ward
Chapter 5. Dont Lets Be Beastly to the Germans: the Representation of Germans in British Second World War Films
Robert Murphy
Chapter 6. Memory and Nation in British Narratives of the Second World War after 1945
Mark Rawlinson
PART III: FRANCE
Chapter 7. A Capital Problem: The Town of Vichy, the Second World War, and the Politics of Identity
Kirrily Freeman
Chapter 8. Tracking the Past in the Places and Spaces of Patrick Modianos Early Fiction
Peter Tame
Chapter 9. Vercors and the Second World War
Cristina Solé-Castells
PART IV: GERMANY
Chapter 10. Reconstructing D-Day Memory: How Contemporary Politics made Germans Victims of the War
Harold J. Goldberg
Chapter 11. Memories of World War II in German Film after 1945
Christiane Schönfeld
Chapter 12. Ilse Aichingers NovelThe Greater Hope. Poetic Narrative to Deal with Trauma
Marko Pajevi
PART V: ITALY
Chapter 13. Victimhood Asserted: Italian Memories of World War II
Richard J. B. Bosworth
Chapter 14. Re-picturing the Myth: American Characters in Post-War Popular Italian Cinema
Daniela Treveri Gennari
Chapter 15. Italian Resistance Writing in the Years of the Second Republic
Philip Cooke
PART VI: POLAND
Chapter 16. The Second World War in Present-Day Polish Memory and Politics
Andrzej Paczkowski
Chapter 17. Wounded Memory. Rhetorical Strategies Used in Public Discourse on the Katy Massacre
Urszula Jarecka
Chapter 18. The Second World War in Recent Polish Counterfactual and Alternative (Hi)stories
Marzena Sokoowska-Pary
PART VII: USSR / RUSSIA
Chapter 19. History Politics and the Changing Meaning of Victory Day in Contemporary Russia
Markku Kangaspuro
Chapter 20. War and Patriotism: Russian War Films and the Lessons for Today
David Gillespie
Chapter 21. Russian Fiction at War
Greg Carleton
Afterword: Memories of War: From the Sacred to the Secular
Jay Winter
Index
