EAN: 9783825349417

A MAN COULD STAND UP - SILVIA MERGENTHAL GEBUNDEN

This book explores imbalances of power between male and female characters  and the interplay
between fictional masculinities  in British and Australian fiction of the First World War.
While most of the novels under consideration were written during the war itself and in the
interwar period  others take stock of what it means to be a man in times of war on the occasion
of WWI anniversaries  including the 2014-2018 centenary. These more recent novels draw upon
repositories of sedimented images stored in archives of cultural memory  thus raising the
question of how the Great War is inscribed in national imaginaries. Hence  some chapters will
also discuss Australian texts as they serve to demonstrate  even more clearly than their
British counterparts  how constructions of masculinity intersect with constructions of national
identity. Finally  in some fictional subgenres such as adventure novels  it is their
indebtedness to literary traditions which engender specific types of masculinity.

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