The Long Aftermath

Manuel Bragança is Assistant Professor in French Studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics at University College Dublin, Ireland, where he is also a member of the Centre for War Studies and of the Humanities Institute. His research interests focus on the historiography and memories of the Second World War in France and Europe. He is an editor of the online research platform H-France and an assistant editor of the journal Open Cultural Studies.

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Acknowledgements



Foreword: Between World Wars: Remembering War in Europe before 1945

Richard Overy



Introduction: The Long Aftermath of the Long Second World War

Manuel Bragança and Peter Tame



PART I: SPAIN



Chapter 1. Violence and the History and Memory of the Spanish Civil War: Beyond the Crisis of Inherited Narrative Frameworks

Pablo Sánchez León



Chapter 2. Poetry and Silence in Post-Civil War Spain: Carmen Conde, Lucía Sánchez Saornil and Pilar de Valderrama

Jean Andrews



Chapter 3. On Civil-War Memory in Spanish Women’s Narratives: The Example of Cristina Fernández Cubas’ Cosas que ya no existen

Alison Ribeiro de Menezes



PART II: THE UNITED KINGDOM



Chapter 4. Narrating Britain’s War: A ‘Four Nations and More’ Approach to the People’s War

Daniel Travers and Paul Ward



Chapter 5. ‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’: the Representation of Germans in British Second World War Films

Robert Murphy



Chapter 6. Memory and Nation in British Narratives of the Second World War after 1945

Mark Rawlinson



PART III: FRANCE



Chapter 7. A Capital Problem: The Town of Vichy, the Second World War, and the Politics of Identity

Kirrily Freeman



Chapter 8. Tracking the Past in the Places and Spaces of Patrick Modiano’s Early Fiction

Peter Tame



Chapter 9. Vercors and the Second World War

Cristina Solé-Castells



PART IV: GERMANY



Chapter 10. Reconstructing D-Day Memory: How Contemporary Politics made Germans Victims of the War

Harold J. Goldberg



Chapter 11. Memories of World War II in German Film after 1945

Christiane Schönfeld



Chapter 12. Ilse Aichinger’s Novel The Greater Hope. Poetic Narrative to Deal with Trauma

Marko Pajević



PART V: ITALY



Chapter 13. Victimhood Asserted: Italian Memories of World War II

Richard J. B. Bosworth



Chapter 14. Re-picturing the Myth: American Characters in Post-War Popular Italian Cinema

Daniela Treveri Gennari



Chapter 15. Italian Resistance Writing in the Years of the ‘Second Republic’

Philip Cooke



PART VI: POLAND



Chapter 16. The Second World War in Present-Day Polish Memory and Politics

Andrzej Paczkowski



Chapter 17. Wounded Memory. Rhetorical Strategies Used in Public Discourse on the Katyń Massacre

Urszula Jarecka



Chapter 18. The Second World War in Recent Polish Counterfactual and Alternative (Hi)stories

Marzena Sokołowska-Paryż



PART VII: USSR / RUSSIA



Chapter 19. History Politics and the Changing Meaning of Victory Day in Contemporary Russia

Markku Kangaspuro



Chapter 20. War and Patriotism: Russian War Films and the Lessons for Today

David Gillespie



Chapter 21. Russian Fiction at War

Greg Carleton



Afterword: Memories of War: From the Sacred to the Secular

Jay Winter



Index