Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Introduction

NIELS BOENDER

Part I

Spectacles of Homecoming

1 Hometown Heroes of the British Empire: English Canada's Homecomings of the Great War, 1915-19

ERIC STORY

2 Auf Wiedersehen, Soldat: Does a Soldier Ever Truly Return Home?

KIRSTEN E. KUMPF BAELE

Part II

Emotions and Homecoming

3 'Strangers at Home': Stalag Luft III's Kriegies Return

KRISTEN ALEXANDER

4 (Re)Making Home After Civil War: Exploring Former Child Soldiers' Reinsertion Imageries in the DRC

PAULINE ZERLA

5 The Shattered Home: Exploring the Consequences of Unresolved Conflicts on the Concept of Home in Kashmiri Secessionist Movements

SHIPRA SHUKLA

PART III

Conflicted Homecomings

6 When the Post-War Isn't Permanent: Coming Home in the Age of Britain's 'Small Wars'

TAYLOR SOJA

7 'Walking on the Ground Hurts-Like Walking on a Burn:/ On the Burned Aching Carcass of the World' or: Where Is a Veteran at Home?

ELAZAR ELHANAN

8 'Have you forgotten that I am one of you?' Mau Mau Homecomings in Late and Post-Colonial Kenya

NIELS BOENDER

9 Invisible Soldiers, Impossible War: Veterans of the Algerian War of Independence Return to France

Anndal NARAYANAN

Index