Missing Men: Canadian Prisoners of War in Alan Cumyn's Great War Novel The Famished Lover.
In: Journal of War & Culture Studies, Jg. 14 (2021-08-01), Heft 3, S. 251-268
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This article focuses on the representation of Canadian prisoners of war in Alan Cumyn's Great War novel The Famished Lover (2006). Relying on historical sources, I attempt to show how the experience of captivity, marginalized for a long time in historical research, alters our understanding of the First World War and the evolution of forced labour in the twentieth century. I approach Canadian POWs as missing persons, disappeared in the biopolitical regime of the POW camp, the post-war discourses of commemoration, and the gaps in cultural memory. The article explores Cumyn's representation of the camp as a biopolitical space and the production of the POW as Agambenian bare life. Central to the analysis are issues of trauma, masculinity, and heroic defiance. I also engage with the long-lasting sequelae of captivity, as well as the difficult reintegration of the returned POW, based on the example of the protagonist of the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Missing Men: Canadian Prisoners of War in Alan Cumyn's Great War Novel The Famished Lover.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Branach-Kallas, Anna |
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Zeitschrift: | Journal of War & Culture Studies, Jg. 14 (2021-08-01), Heft 3, S. 251-268 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2021 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 1752-6272 (print) |
DOI: | 10.1080/17526272.2020.1723838 |
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