German First World War Writing: Literature and the Politics of Memory, 1919-1933

War writing played a key role in shaping German political and cultural self-understanding in the years 1918-33, yet the importance of German First World War literature has been overlooked in the English-speaking world. Nicholas Martin's overview emphasises the distinctive qualities of German literary responses to the First World War. It covers three central aspects of war writing in the German context: the literary reconstruction of war experience; the creation and manipulation of cultural memory through literature; and the political significance of war narratives.