On the Battlefield of Memory - The First World War and American Remembrance, 1919-1941

Informationen zum Autor Steven Trout is a professor of English andcChair of the English Department at the University of South Alabama in Mobile. He is author/editor of several books, including Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War and American Prose Writers of World War I: A Documentary Volume . Klappentext On the Battlefield of Memor y by Steven Trout is a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920s and 1930s interpreted and remembered the First World War. Zusammenfassung Provides a detailed study of how Americans in the 1920s and 1930s interpreted and remembered the First World War. Steven Trout asserts that from the beginning American memory of the war was fractured and unsettled! more a matter of competing sets of collective memories - each set with its own spokespeople - than a unified body of myth.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Trout
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2012
• EAN: 9780817357238
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5723-8
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous