Landscapes of War and Memory

Sherrill Grace, OC, holds the title of University Killam Professor at the University of British Columbia, where she has taught Canadian Literature and Culture for more than 35 years. She is also Professor of English, Distinguished University Scholar, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

"This is a passionately written academic book – a characterization which the author would probably agree should not be an oxymoron. The passion suggests that it is written as much for curious general readers as for academics. I hope it reaches many of both, particularly those who know or have known war survivors.... Grace’s specific subjects are Canadian literary and visual representations of 20th-century war created in the 1977-2007 period, and the tasks of collective national memory that these perform.... Official war histories record the losses, gains, and casualties but seldom the savage and often impulsive and unnecessary means by which these came about. In these 600+ pages Grace examines numerous novels, plays and television films..." [Full post at http://bit.ly/1xCVoAn]

• Preface and Acknowledgements XIIIPART ILandscapes of War/Landscapes of Memory1 Landscapes of War 92 Landscapes of Memory 53PART IIRemembering the Nation in the First World War3 Novels 103From The Wars to Three Day Road4 Theatres of War 167From Billy Bishop to Vimy5 “Away to the War and Back Again” 209Remembering Canada in Film and Auto/BiographyPART IIIIntermission Between the Wars6 Living in a Haunted World 249PART IVTesting the Nation in the Second World War7 “Made in Canada” 293The Second World War in the Pacific8 The Promised Land 349Canada or Kanada?9 Canada and the Aftermath of the “Good” War 391PART VA Peaceable Kingdom in the Twenty-First Century10 Remembering War; Finding Peace? 449Some ConclusionsNotes 477Bibliography 523Permissions 561Index 565