Meghan Tinsley

Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary

Making Melancholia

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 281g
• ISBN-13: 9780367551865
• ISBN-10: 0367551861
• Artikelnr.: 68711939

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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