Comparing Grief in French, British and Canadian Great War Fiction 1977-2014

This study of historical, sociological, philosophical and literary sources, shows how, by both consolidating and contesting national myths, fiction continues to construct the 1914-1918 conflict as a cultural trauma, illuminating at the same time some of our most recent ethical concerns.

Anna Branach-Kallas, Ph.D., D. Litt., is Associate Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. She has published monographs and over seventy articles on corporeality, diaspora, trauma and war, as well as postcolonial and comparative literature in English and French.Piotr Sadkowski, Ph.D., D. Litt., is Associate Professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland. He has published a monograph and many articles on such topics as war, myth, migration, intertextuality and post-memory in francophone literatures.