War-torn Tales

The Editors: Danielle Hipkins is a lecturer in Italian at the University of Exeter. She has published on gender in post-war Italian fiction and cinema. She is working on a study of the representation of prostitution in Italian cinema.Gill Plain is Professor of English at the University of St Andrews. She has published on twentieth-century war writing, crime fiction and gender. Her most recent book examines masculinity and national identity in British cinema.

• Contents: Gill Plain/Danielle Hipkins: Introduction: Telling Tales – Gill Plain: Getting Things Straight for the Postwar: Realigning Gender and Nation in The Way to the Stars – Loredana Polezzi: ‘Mal d’Africa’ and its Memory: Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Pre- and Postwar Readings of the Italian Presence in Africa – Anna Richards: ‘Change and Fidelity in One’: Women, Mourning and the Reconstruction of Germany in the Work of Elisabeth Langgässer and Ilse Langner – Danielle Hipkins: Were Sisters Doing It for Themselves? Prostitutes, Brothels and Discredited Masculinity in Postwar Italian Cinema – Sarah Leahy: Gender Panic: The ‘garce’ and the ‘Good Girl’ in Postwar French Cinema – Kate Taylor: From ‘Wise Mother’ to Prostitute: Women as Duality in Postwar Japan – Lynne Attwood: From the ‘New Soviet Woman’ to the ‘New Soviet Housewife’: Women in Postwar Russia – Christopher Lloyd: Women’s Resistance Narratives in France: Redefining Gender and Genre – Andrew Spicer: Echoes of War: Tunes of Glory and the Demise of the Officer Class in British Cinema – Erica Carter: Men in Cardigans: Canaris and the 1950s West German Good Soldier – Brendon Nicholls: The Beat Generation: Literature, Gender and Race in Postwar America – Teresa Ludden: Female Allegory and the Critique of German History in Helma Sanders-Brahms’s Deutschland Bleiche Mutter – Phyllis Lassner: ‘Words That Can’t Be Spoken’: Lesbian Love in the Third Reich.