Abstract
Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima mon amour , based on a screenplay by Marguerite Duras, is the story of a French actress and a Japanese architect who come to terms with their respective experiences of World War II. A similar gap is explored in Ken Saro-Wiwa’s novel Sozaboy , narrated in an idiosyncratic language meant to convey the experience of postcolonial oppression that lies at the root of the conflict. Finally, the blog Baghdad burning brings us closer to our time, broadening the scope of representation by taking into account its readers’ reactions and expectations: it sketches not life in the trenches and in prisoner camps like Sozaboy, but the everyday lives of civilians affected by a war of ‘liberation’ that they experience as a foreign invasion. Literature, film and new media help us bridge the gap between the millions of statistics and the affecting singularity of individual experiences. Keywords: Baghdad burning ; film; Hiroshima mon amour ; media; Sozaboy ; war
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