MacKAY, Marina (dir.), The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II, New York, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Companions to Literature), 2009, 258 p.
ISBN 9780521715416
RÉSUMÉ
The literature of World War II has emerged as an accomplished, moving,and challenging body of work, produced by writers as different asNorman Mailer and Virginia Woolf, Primo Levi and Ernest Hemingway,Jean-Paul Sartre and W. H. Auden. This Companion provides acomprehensive overview of the international literatures of the war:both those works that recorded or reflected experiences of the war asit happened, and those that tried to make sense of it afterwards. Itsurveys the writing produced in the major combatant nations (Britainand the Commonwealth, the USA, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and theUSSR), and explores its common themes. With its chronology and guide tofurther reading, it will be an invaluable source of information andinspiration for students and scholars of modern literature and warstudies.
TABLE DES MATIÈRES
Chronology; Introduction Marina MacKay; Part I. Anglo-American Textsand Contexts: 1. War poetry in Britain Adam Piette; 2. British fictionof the war Rod Mengham; 3. War poetry in the USA Margot Norris; 4. TheAmerican war novel James Dawes; 5. War journalism in English LeoMellor; Part II. Global Perspectives: 6. The French war DebaratiSanyal; 7. The German war Dagmar Barnouw; 8. The Soviet war KatharineHodgson; 9. The Italian war Robert S. C. Gordon; 10. The Japanese warReiko Tachibana; 11. War writing in Australia, Canada, and New ZealandDonna Coates; Part III. Approaches and Revisions: 12. Women writers andthe war Gill Plain; 13. Life writing and the Holocaust Phyllis Lassner;14. Theories of trauma Lyndsey Stonebridge; 15. The war in contemporaryfiction Petra Rau; Guide to further reading; Index.
COLLABORATEURS
Marina MacKay, Adam Piette, Rod Mengham, Margot Norris, James Dawes,Leo Mellor, Debarati Sanyal, Dagmar Barnouw, Katharine Hodgson, RobertS. C. Gordon, Reiko Tachibana, Donna Coates, Gill Plain, PhyllisLassner, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Petra Rau