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In this article the author discusses meanings of "generation" in context with world literatures which is affected by World War II, terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001, and military involvement of U.S. in Afghanistan. He mentions that the generational language has been well exploited by French, Spanish, and Hispano-American literary scholars but has not found its place in American or British scholarship. He mentions the contributions of authors Robert Wohl and Samuel Hynes.

An essay is presented on the different methods of presenting a back story in novels. It provides an analysis on the narrative presentation on the summary of the novel based on the technical concept of fabula and sujet. An effective backstory must contain all the necessary information which provides an overview of the novel.

Henry Green’s 1946 novel Back is effectively cut in two because at the arithmetic middle of the book, there is a translated (and quite long) passage from the purportedly eighteenth century Souvenirs of the Marquise de Créquy. While most critics have agreed upon the importance of this passage to the novel, not only structurally but thematically, none have actually looked into the original source and considered the most crucial thing about it: the original source was a forgery. When considering the forged status of this passage and its vital importance to Back, our reading of Green’s novel must change drastically: no longer does the novel read as a quest for authenticity on the part of its protagonist, the disabled war veteran Charley Summers. Rather, one must consider the possibility of a true self in a world of forgery and duplicity. This also implicates our understandings of modernist intertextual practices. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]