Memories and representations of war : the case of World War I and World War II / edited by Elena Lamberti and Vita Fortunati.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wars we have seen : literature as a medium of collective memory in the "age of extremes" / Astrid Erll -- Writing as testimony in the European narrative after the First and Second World Wars / Vita Fortunati -- Memory and repression : psychiatric sources and the history of modern wars / Antonio Gibelli -- The world wars and the history of Italy : public, shared and disputed memories / Alberto de Bernardi -- Urban toponymy, cultural memory and the world wars / Roberto Balzani -- Contaminated memory in Günter Grass' My century : literary and journalistic accounts on war / Cesare Giacobazzi -- The experience of war and the search for identity in U.S. narratives of World War I and World War II / Elena Lamberti -- "Strange growths" : the world wars as agents and markers of change in women's writing / Daniela Fortezza -- War in women's experience and writing / Annamaria Lamarra -- "I hear sounds of Spain" : foreign women writers and the Spanish Civil War / Arancha Aránzazu Usandizaga --

War literature, bearing witness, and the problem of sacralization : trauma and desire in the writing of Mary Borden and others / Max Saunders -- Spectres of the past, inhabitations of the present : Jochen Gerz and the problem of commemoration / Jonathan Kear -- Representing the extreme : reminiscences of Nazi Germany in Tras el cristal / Camila Loew -- Film and war imaginary : the Hollywood Combat and cultural memory of World War II / Sara Pesce -- "God's playground" : Poland and the Second World War in Wajda's cinema / Gabriella Elina Imposti -- Chasms of silence : the Luftkrieg in German literature from a reunification perspective / Raul Calzoni -- Death and mourning in the memory of World War I in Italy / Oliver Janz -- The dead hero, the dead body : anti-epic and research of meaning in the fictional representation of World War II / Alberto Casadei --Taricco's memory / Roberto Bigazzi.