1st Edition
New Directions in War and Culture Studies A Collection of Essays by Early Career Researchers
Introduction— New Directions in War and Culture Studies: A Collection of Essays by Early Career Researchers
Martin Hurcombe
1. The Argonauts of the Western Front – Poets as Ethnographers of the Culture de Guerre in the First World War
Julia Ribeiro S C Thomaz
2. A Dangerous Game: The Forbidden Relationships between French POWs and German Women During World War II
Gwendoline Cicottini
3. A Negotiated Gender Order: British Army Control of Servicewomen in ‘Front Line’ Counterinsurgency, 1948–2014
Hannah West
4. Before Babylift: Female Photojournalists and Vietnamese-American ‘Orphans’ in American Print-media, 1971–1973
Georgia Vesma
5. Returning Home After War: Representations of Romanian Veterans in a Contemporary War Novel (Schije/Shrapnel)
Sorana Jude
6. ‘Entangled in War Stories’ – Affect and Representations of War Narratives in Fanvids
Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny
Biography
Martin Hurcombe is Professor of French Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. He is a specialist in early twentieth-century French culture, history, and politics and is the author of Novelists in Conflict: Ideology and the Absurd in the French Combat Novel of the Great War (2004) and France and the Spanish Civil War: Cultural Representations of the War Next Door, 1936–45 (2011). He is also co-author with Martyn Cornick and Angela Kershaw of French Political Travel Writing in the Inter-War Years: Radical Departures (2017). His current work explores the history of the French sports press and publication industry through its relationship to road cycling.
