The editors (professors of literature at the U. of Bologna, Italy) present an interdisciplinary collection of 19 papers exploring the historical, cultural, and social impacts of cultural
memories of World Wars I and II as revealed in cinema, literature, art, and monuments. The papers explore such topics as European war novels as a medium of collective memory, public and
disputed memories of war in Italy, the line between fact and fiction in G羹nter Grass's My Century, the experience of war and the search for identity in US narratives of the wars, the wars as
agents and markers of change in women's writing, trauma and desire in the writing of novelist Mary Borden, memories of Nazi Germany in Agust穩 Villaronga's film Tras el Cristal, cultural memory
of World War II in Hollywood, Poland and the Second World War in the films of Andrzej Wajda, and the air war against Germany in German literature from a reunification perspective. Price
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