Long Shadows

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction (Petra Rau): Long Shadows and Blind Spots                                        
 
Chapter 1 (Gill Plain): Escaping 1945: Popular Fiction and the End of the War    
 
Chapter 2 (Richard Farmer): “Remember the Torrin”: Positioning In Which We Serve                                                                                
 
Chapter 3 (Eluned Summers-Bremner): "Drinking and drinking and screaming":
Wartime Communality in Patrick Hamilton’s The Slaves of Solitude                      
 
Chapter 4 (Allan Hepburn): Facing the Future: Children in Postwar Britain                       
 
Chapter 5 (Paula Derdiger): “We’ll Never Make a Home of This”:
Elizabeth Taylor’s Postwar Reconstruction Fiction                                                      
 
Chapter 6 (Elizabeth Maslen): "Someone Should Put it on Record": Storm Jameson and "Witness Literature"                  
 
Chapter 7 (Adam Piette): Postwar Espionage Fiction: Memory and Fascism
in Emergency-State Thinking                                                                                           
 
Chapter 8 (Petra Rau): “Knowledge of the Working of Bombs”: The Strategic Air Offensive
in Rhetoric and Fiction                                                                                                      
 
Chapter 9 (Victoria Stewart): “A Bomb Made of Words”: Letter-Writing
in Fictions of the Second World War                                                                                               
 
Chapter 10 (Michael Perfect): “He Wished to Defend a Country That Wasn’t His”:
British Subjects / British Servicemen in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Andrea
Levy’s Small Island                                                                                                            
 
Chapter 11 (Sue Vice): The Nazis in Britain: Representations of the Wartime
Occupation of the Channel Islands                                                                                
 
Chapter 12 (Margaret D Stetz): Dress, Women’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs
and the "Thoughtful" Work of Linda Grant                                                                     
 
Index