Race, Empire and First World War Writing.
Drawing upon fresh archival material this book recovers the experience of different ethnic groups during the First World War conflict.
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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Mục lục:
- Cover; RACE, EMPIRE AND FIRST WORLD WAR WRITING; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; EMPIRE, RACE, COLOUR; VOICES AND EXPERIENCES; PERCEPTIONS AND PROXIMITIES; MEMORY, NATIONALISM AND LITERATURE; NOTES; PART I: Voices and experiences; CHAPTER 1 'An army of workers': Chinese indentured labour in First World War France; CHINESE SUPPORT FOR THE RECRUITMENT; ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE CHINESE WORKERS; CHINESE WORKERS' VOICES; CONCLUSION; NOTES; CHAPTER 2 Sacrifices, sex, race: Vietnamese experiences in the First World War.
- GOING AWAY: RECRUITMENT, VOLUNTEERING AND THE VOYAGE TO FRANCESACRIFICE AND DISCONTENT; MONEY, LOVE AND SEX; RACE AND CONFLICT; POST-WAR DEVELOPMENTS; NOTES; CHAPTER 3 Indians at home, Mesopotamia and France, 1914-1918: towards an intimate history; THE HOME FRONT: PRESTIGE, NATIONALISM, LAMENT; HONOUR AND SLUR: THE WAR DIARIES OF THAKUR AMAR SINGH; MEMORIES OF MESOPOTAMIA: CAPTAIN DR KALYAN MUKHERJI AND SISIR SARBADHIKARI; SEPOY LETTERS: PALIMPSESTS, IZZAT AND TRANSCULTURAL IDENTITIES; NOTES; CHAPTER 4 'We don't want to die for nothing': askari at war in German East Africa, 1914-1918.
- 'SAFARI YA BWANA LETTOW': THE STRESSES OF WARRESPECTABILITY ON THE MARCH: MOBILE COMMUNITIES AT WAR; DESERTION: A RESPONSE TO BROKEN CONTRACTS; NOTES; CHAPTER 5 France's legacy to Demba Mboup? A Senegalese griot and his descendants remember his military service during the First World War; MBOUP'S LIFE HISTORY; POSTSCRIPT; NOTES; PART II: Perceptions and proximities; CHAPTER 6 Representing Otherness: African, Indian and European soldiers' letters and memoirs; GERMAN SOLDIERS' VIEW OF COLONIAL TROOPS; ALLIED SOLDIERS' VIEW OF COLONIAL TROOPS; COLONIAL NON-WHITE SOLDIERS' VIEW OF EUROPE; NOTES.
- CHAPTER 7 Living apart together: Belgian civilians and non-white troops and workers in wartime FlandersWARTIME WRITINGS OF JANE DE LAUNOY AND MAURICE DUWEZ; ACCOUNTS OF THE LOCAL CLERGY: THE DIARIES OF FATHER VAN WALLEGHEM; CHANGING POST-WAR ATTITUDES, ESPECIALLY TOWARDS THE CHINESE LABOUR CORPS; NOTES; CHAPTER 8 Nursing the Other: the representation of colonial troops in French and British First World War nursing memoirs; WHITE NURSES AND COLONIAL SOLDIERS: CONTEXTS AND CONTROVERSIES; NURSE MEMOIRS; NOTES.
- CHAPTER 9 Imperial captivities: colonial prisoners of war in Germany and the Ottoman empire, 1914-1918DIFFERENT CONTEXTS: GERMANY AND OTTOMAN TURKEY; 'RACIALISING' THE ENCOUNTER WITH THE COLONIAL PRISONER; FEAR OF THE NON-WHITE COLONIAL SOLDIER IN GERMANY; THE NON-WHITE SOLDIER AS CAPTOR AND FELLOW PRISONER: THE OTTOMAN CASE; NOTES; CHAPTER 10 Images of Te Hokowhitu A Tu in the First World War; SELLING NEW ZEALAND TO THE WORLD; VOLUNTEERING FOR A WHITE MAN'S WAR; IN EGYPT AND GALLIPOLI; MAORI IN THE UK AND FRANCE; NOTES; PART III: Nationalism, memory and literature.