The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First
World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction drama film
docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive
survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures
addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its
mediation. In four sections the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War
(including its mythology and iconography) (2) the implications of different forms and media
for representing the war (3) 'national' memories foregrounding the differences in post-memory
representations and interpretations of the Great War and (4) representations of the Great War
within larger temporal or spatial frameworks focusing specifically on the ideological
dimensions of its 'remembrance' in historical socio-political gender-oriented and
post-colonial contexts.
