Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War: The Poetics and Politics of Centenary Interventions

Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War contributes to the imperial turn in First World War studies.

This book provides an exploration of the ways in which war memory can be appropriated, neglected and disabled, but also “unlearned” and “decolonized”. The book offers an analysis of the experience of soldiers of colour in five novels published at the centenary of the First World War by David Diop, Raphaël Confiant, Fred Khumalo, Kamila Shamsie and Abdulrazak Gurnah, examining the poeti...