Teaching Representations of the First World War
- Editors: Debra Rae Cohen, Douglas Higbee
- Pages: viii & 378 pp.
- Published: 2017
- ISBN: 9781603293051 (Paperback)
- ISBN: 9781603293044 (Hardcover)
The First World War was a conflict of unprecedented proportions that saw staggering loss of life. The catalyst for huge political and social changes, the war was in part shaped through propaganda, film, photography, poetry, memoir, and music. These artistic realms, in turn, influenced gender roles, the fate of empires, extreme political movements, and new aesthetic formations.
The volume’s scope reflects the vibrancy of today’s instructors as they contend with the many issues critical for teaching the First World War in a variety of classroom settings, including
- critical paradigms used in thinking about the war, such as its relation to modernism
- the global reach of the war’s representations, including the Middle East and South Asia
- cultural motifs connected to the war, from psychiatry, pacifism, and consumer culture to the 1918 influenza pandemic
Glenda Abramson
Carol Acton
Meg Albrinck
Jan Baetens
Wyatt Bonikowski
Marlene A. Briggs
Claire Buck
Deborah D. Buffton
Stephen Cloutier
Santanu Das
Patrick Deer
Laura Doan
Jeffrey Drouin
Scott D. Emmert
Anne E. Fernald
Jane Elizabeth Fisher
Hugo Frey
Elizabeth A. Galway
Nancy Sloan Goldberg
Peter Grant
Marguerite Helmers
Margaret R. Higonnet
Pearl James
Mark D. Larabee
Celia Marshik
Amaya Martin
Andrew Maunder
Laura McLary
Wolfgang Natter
Elizabeth Outka
Bonnie Roos
Vincent Sherry
Richard Smith
Eve Sorum
Stephen E. Tabachnick
Steven Trout
David Williams
Introduction (1)
Part I: Critical Paradigms
What Is War? (17)
The “World” in World War I: Learning to Think Globally (28)
What Is the Relation of the First World War to Modernism? (40)
Rupture or Continuity? The Myth(s) of the War (51)
Part II: Global Narratives
Code Switching and Representations of the Great War (65)
World War I Regenders America (74)
The Impact of the First World War on Pan-Africanism: The Transcendence of National and Imperial Boundaries (85)
For King and/or Country: British Dominions and the Literary Interplay between Imperial and National Identities (93)
Beyond All Quiet on the Western Front: Representations of the First World War in Germany (102)
Challenges and Contradictions in Teaching French Great War Literature (110)
Teaching Representations: The Jewish Experience in Eastern Europe during the First World War (118)
South Asian Literature of the First World War (125)
The Great War in the Middle East: Two Perspectives T. E. Lawrence’s Lessons (138)
Fictional Representations of the War and of Its Consequences (144)
Part III: Cultural Motifs
Shell Shock as a Narrative Paradigm in Great War Psychiatry and Fiction (153)
Resisting the Call to Serve: Mutiny, Pacifism, and Conscientious Objection in the First World War (161)
The Ties That Bind: Modernist Cultures and the Rise of Fascism (169)
Inside and Outside Sexual Identity: Queerness, History, and the First World War (177)
Thinking about Space: Mapping and Perception in World War I Literature (185)
Teaching the 1918 Influenza Pandemic as Part of a World War I Curriculum (193)
The First World War in Consumer Culture (201)
Part IV: Genres
Mud, Machines, and Madness: Teaching the Art of the First World War (213)
A “School of Arms”: Teaching Children’s Book Culture of the First World War (221)
Staging the First World War (228)
Life and Death at the Front: Life Writing, Literature, and the Language of War (235)
Representations of Time: Film and Great War Writing (242)
Memorials as Text: Debating the War’s Meaning through Monuments (249)
In Their Time: Teaching First World War Short Stories and the Case of Richard Harding Davis’s “The Man Who Had Everything” (257)
The New Great War Novels: Revisiting the War’s Myths through Contemporary Fictions (265)
Graphic Novels and the First World War (277)
From Brel to Black Metal: The First World War in Popular Music and Music Videos (284)
Part V: Places and Pedagogies
From the Global Archive: Teaching World War I with Digital Tools (293)
Teaching the First World War through Community-Based Learning (302)
Bild und Text im Ersten Weltkrieg: A Genre-Based Approach to the First World War for Intermediate-Advanced Students of German (308)
World War I Landscapes at the United States Naval Academy (316)
Part VI: Web Resources
First World War–Related Web Sites: A Bibliography (325)
Notes on Contributors (335)
Works Cited (341)
Index (369)
