Brenda Walker’s Challenge to the Anzac Legend in her Great War Novel \u3cem\u3eThe Wing of Night\u3c/em\u3e

Abstract

Donna Coates is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Calgary. With Sherrill Grace, she has co-edited two volumes of Canada and the Theatre of War: Eight Plays on World War One and Two (2009) and Canada and the Theatre of War: Six Contemporary Dramas (2010), and with George Melnyk, Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature (2008). She has also published numerous book chapters and articles in Canadian, Australian, British, and European journals primarily on women’s fictional responses to the First and Second World Wars and to the Vietnam War