Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture

Niels Boender is a United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in late-and post-colonial East African political and intellectual history. He has published on the legacies of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, most recently published in the Journal of Social History.

• List of ContributorsForewordPrefaceList of Acronyms and AbbreviationsIntroduction NIELS BOENDERPart I Spectacles of Homecoming1 Hometown Heroes of the British Empire: English Canada’s Homecomings of the Great War, 1915-19ERIC STORY2 Auf Wiedersehen, Soldat: Does a Soldier Ever Truly Return Home?KIRSTEN E. KUMPF BAELEPart II Emotions and Homecoming 3 ‘Strangers at Home’: Stalag Luft III’s Kriegies ReturnKRISTEN ALEXANDER4 (Re)Making Home After Civil War: Exploring Former Child Soldiers’ Reinsertion Imageries in the DRCPAULINE ZERLA5 The Shattered Home: Exploring the Consequences of Unresolved Conflicts on the Concept of Home in Kashmiri Secessionist MovementsSHIPRA SHUKLAPART IIIConflicted Homecomings6 When the Post-War Isn’t Permanent: Coming Home in the Age of Britain’s ‘Small Wars’TAYLOR SOJA7 ‘Walking on the Ground Hurts—Like Walking on a Burn:/ On the Burned Aching Carcass of the World’ or: Where Is a Veteran at Home?ELAZAR ELHANAN8 ‘Have you forgotten that I am one of you?’ Mau Mau Homecomings in Late and Post-Colonial KenyaNIELS BOENDER9 Invisible Soldiers, Impossible War: Veterans of the Algerian War of Independence Return to FranceAnndal NARAYANANIndex