Great War

Kellen Kurschinski received his Ph.D. in history from McMaster University in 2014. His research examines disability in the aftermath of the Great War.Steve Marti is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Delaware. His dissertation examines the relationship between identity and voluntary contributions to the war effort in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.Alicia Robinet is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of English at Western University.Matt Symes has worked and taught extensively on the history of war and memory and is co-author of five battlefield guidebooks, including Canadian Battlefields 1915-1918: A Visitor's Guide. Symes was co-editor (with Geoffrey Hayes and Mike Bechthold) of Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp.Jonathan F. Vance is a native of Waterdown, Ontario, and the author of many books, including award-winners Death So Noble: Memory, Meaning, and the First World War (1997), Unlikely Soldiers: How Two Canadians Fought the Secret War Against Nazi Occupation (2008), and A History of Canadian Culture (2009).

• The Great War: From Memory to History, edited by Kellen Kurschinski, Steve Marti, Alicia Robinet, Matt Symes, and Jonathan F. VanceIntroductionSection One - Memory and Making NarrativesCanon Fodder - The Canadian Canon and the Erasure of Great War Narratives Zachary AbramToo Close to History - Major Charles G.D. Roberts, the Canada in Flanders Series, and the Writing of Wartime Documentary Thomas HoddState War Histories - ""An Atom of Interest in an Ocean of Apathy"" Kimberly J. LamayThe Great War in Detective Fiction Marzena Sokolowska-Paryz""Backstabbing Arabs"" and ""Shirking Kurds"" - History, Nationalism, and Turkish Memory of the First World War Veysel SimsekMen of Suvla - Empire, Masculinities, and Gallipoli's Legacy in Ireland and Newfoundland Jane McGaugheyHistory Trumps Memory - The Strange Case of Sir Richard Turner William F. StewartSection Two - Rediscovering and Rewriting MemoryThe Names of the Dead - ""Shot at Dawn"" and the Politics of Remembrance Bette LondonLoyal and Submission - Contested Discourses on Aboriginal War Service, 1914-1939 Brian MacDowall""Kitchener's Tourists"" - Voices from Great War Hospital Ships Carol ActonThe Forgotten Few - Quebec and the Memory of the First World War Geoff Keelan""Loyal until Death"" - Memories of African Great War Service for Germany Dan BullardThe Enemy at Home - Defining Enemy Aliens in Ontario during the Great War Mary ChaktsirisSection Three - Seeing and Feeling MemoryThe Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927) and the Struggle for the Cinematic Image of the Great War Mark Connelly""Can One Grow Used to Death?"" - Deathbed Scenes in Great War Nurses' Narratives Alice KellyKitsch, Commemoration, and Mourning in the Aftermath of the Great War Mark A.R. Facknitz""Ask Him if He'll Drink a Toast to the Dead"" - The Cinematic Flyer-Hero and British Memories of the Great War in the Air, 1927-39 Robert MorleyOtto Dix and the Great War - Reality, Memory, and the Construction of Identity in The Trench (1923) and the Portfolio The War (1924) Michèlle WijegoonaratnaContributor's BiographiesIndex

[These essays] are valuable studies of the memory and history of the First World War. -- Alex Nordlund -- H-War, 20161001