Crises of Memory and Masculinity: Shell-shock in Pat Barker's Regeneration

Abstract

Barker depicts how the classic trouble of society, expectations, stigmatization, and idealizations related to the war ethos and the patriotic heroism of soldiers as men provoke serious crises in masculine identity formation during the First World War, expending the reader’s comprehension of possible treating methods of curing traumas, identity and gender crisis, and also rewriting the cultural memory of the Great War.