Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

This book presents 'homecoming' as an analytical lens to better understand veterans' return and reintegration after conflict. Looking across times, places, and disciplines, the collection centres both historical and representational approaches to veterancy.

About the author

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.

Summary

This book presents ‘homecoming’ as an analytical lens to better understand veterans' return and reintegration after conflict. Looking across times, places, and disciplines, the collection centres both historical and representational approaches to veterancy.

Product details

• Assisted by: Niels Boender (Editor)
• Authors: Niels Boender
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 25.02.2025
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
• EAN: 9781032733548
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3273354-8
• Pages: 224
• Series: Warwick Studies in the Humanities; Warwick Series in the Humanities
• Subjects: Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, military history, HISTORY / Military / Veterans, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events, Literary studies: general, comparative cultural studies, veteran reintegration, war literature analysis, displacement and belonging, trauma and memory studies, post-conflict identity, psychological effects of military homecoming