Short-Term Memories: The First World War in British Short Stories, 1914–39

Körte, Barbara; Einhaus, Ann-Marie

doi:10.7227/lh.18.1.4

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“…As a historical study it rightly focuses on 'servicemen's correspondence, diaries and memoirs' as the basis for its literary corpus, working in concert with 'professional-medical constructions' and film and art (Bourke, 1999: 28-29). The popular responses to war's effect on the male body in pulp fiction and in monthly fiction magazines were not in Bourke's remit, and, indeed, have only lately become noticed by other scholars (Paris 2000;Potter 2005;Hammond and Towheed eds 2007;Korte and Einhaus 2009;Stevenson 2013;King 2014;Potter 2015). The present article focuses on a specifically fictional response to mutilation by war, and the horror of war itself, presented to a mass readership in a highly literary form: the closet play, one dramatic act designed to be read rather than performed.…”

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The First Cyborg and First World War Bodies as Anti-War Propaganda

Macdonald

2016

Journal of War & Culture Studies

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This article discusses a play published in The Strand Magazine during the First World War which features a cyborg presenting anti-war and pacifist messages, used by The Strand to create anti-German propaganda. The article draws on theories of disability, cyborgs and the posthuman, and from new research on wartime fiction magazines. The importance of the cyborg character, Soldier 241, for the literary history of science fiction is explored by focusing on the relations between the mechanical and the impaired body, and on the First World War as a nexus for technological, surgical and military development. As a cyborg, thischaracter reflects politicized desires that the wartime authorities did not acknowledge: a longing for the end of war, and refusal to countenance a society that rejected the impaired body.

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