Abstract:While the participation of millions of non-European soldiers in global wars has often been neglected or told as a victimological tale of unwilling war participation, choice and agency play a major part in the complex mnemonic agenda that unfolds in two novels that have pioneered the literary re-imagination of World War II from a non-European perspective: Amitav Ghosh's The Glass Palace and Patricia Grace's Tu. Both novels provide fascinating insights into ongoing processes of memory revision that contribute to… Show more
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