Homecoming Veterans in Literature and Culture
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- ISBN 9781032733562
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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From Homer’s Odyssey itself, the return of the veteran to his or her home has been a central trope of the literary canon. Huge bureaucracies and a panoply of global organisations are deeply concerned with facilitating a painless return to stable homes. This book presents ‘homecoming’ as an analytical lens to better understand veterans' return and reintegration after conflict. Home is held to be multidimensional, a concept encapsulating the physical and the social, particularly disrupted by experiences of violence. Homecoming is, therefore, not a mere moment but a process that can unfold over years and decades as old and new bonds of familiarity are forged. Struggles over the home and homecoming are, moreover, endlessly political, bound up in questions of identity and the nation. Looking across times, places, and disciplines, the collection centres both historical and representational approaches to veterancy.
Niels Boender is a United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in late-and post-colonial East African political and intellectual history. He has published on the legacies of the Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya, most recently published in the Journal of Social History.
