Commemorating War: The Politics of Memory

ISBN-13: 9781138520783 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 282 str.

Graham Dawson

Opis

War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years

Spis treści

I: Framing the issues; 1: The politics of war memory and commemoration: Contexts, structures and dynamics; II: Case studies; 2: Layers of memories: Twenty years after in Argentina; 3: The South African War/Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 and political memory in South Africa; 4: National narratives, war commemoration and racial exclusion in a settler society: The Australian case; 5: ‘This is where they fought’: Finnish war landscapes as a national heritage; 6: Remembered/replayed: The nation and male subjectivity in the Second World War films Ni Liv (Norway) and The Cruel Sea (Britain); 1: Postmemory cinema: Second-generation Israelis screen the Holocaust in Don’t Touch My Holocaust; 1: Hauntings: Memory, fiction and the Portuguese colonial wars; 9: Longing for war: Nostalgia and Australian returned soldiers after the First World War; 10: Involuntary commemorations: Post-traumatic stress disorder and its relationship to war commemoration; III: Debates and reviews; 1: War commemoration in Western Europe: Changing meanings, divisive loyalties, unheard voices

O autorze

Graham Dawson