Graham Dawson

Commemorating War

The Politics of Memory

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781138520783
• ISBN-10: 1138520780
• Artikelnr.: 49209645

Autorenporträt

Graham Dawson

Inhaltsangabe

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