Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary: Making Melancholia

ISBN-13: 9780367551858 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 182 str.

Meghan Tinsley

Opis

This book engages with the explosion of public commemorations in Britain and France the wake of the First World War centenary, alongside the hyper-visibility of British and French Muslims in political and popular discourse, to shed light on the manner in which national memory changes when it seeks to include a previously excluded group.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. "I have no respect for the silence": Situating memories of the First World War  2. "A commemoration that captures our national spirit": Narratives of nationalism and memory  3. "They targeted a symbol of the Republic": Transgressing national memory, unsettling the nation  4. "A desire to see the war in a new way": Explaining the emergence of melancholic sites  5. "Before the world falls into disorder": National Memory in unsettled times  Conclusion  Epilogue

O autorze

Meghan Tinsley is Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities in the Department of Sociology at The University of Manchester, UK.