Commemorating War The Politics of Memory
Auteur : Dawson Graham
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War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines some of the social changes that have led to this development, among them the passing of the two world wars from survivor into cultural memory. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration, the book illuminates the struggle to install particular memories at the center of a cultural world, and offers an extensive argument about how the politics of commemoration practices should be understood.
Commemorating War analyzes a range of forms of remembrance, from public commemorations orchestrated by nation-states to personal testimonies of war survivors; and from cultural memories of war represented in films, plays and novels to investigations of wartime atrocities in courts of human rights. It presents a wide range of international case studies, encompassing lesser-known national histories and wars beyond the well-trodden terrain of Vietnam and the two world wars in Europe.
Emerging from this book is an important critique of both "state-centered" approaches to war memory and those that regard commemoration primarily as a human response to loss and grief. Offering a wealth of empirical research material, this book will be important for cultural and oral historians, sociologists, researchers in international relations and human rights, and anybody with an interest in the cultural construction of memory in contemporary society.
Date de parution : 05-2004
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 07-2017
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes de Commemorating War :
Mots-clés :
Young Men; memorial; Military Juntas; historical; Popular Memory Approach; trauma; Anzac Legend; cruel; Karelian Isthmus; sea; Remembrance Sunday; traumatic; Ptsd Sufferer; memory; Returned Soldier; returned; Audley Court; soldiers; Cruel Sea; alessandro; Civil Society; Timothy G; Ashplant; Die Huisgenoot; Graham Dawson; Dominant Fiction; Michael Roper; Anzac Day; Elizabeth Jelin; Finnish Troops; Susana G; Kaufman; Clandestine Detention Centre; Bill Nasson; Winter War; Ann Curthoys; War Memory; Petri J; Raivo; Boer Commando; Peter Sjølyst-Jackson; Aboriginal Ex-servicemen; Toseja Loshitzky; Finnish War; Paulo de Medeiros; Portuguese National Identity; Stephen Garton; South African War Commemoration; Jo Stanley; South Western Queensland; T.G; Ashplant; South African War; Vietnam War; personal testimonies; wartime atrocities; public commemorations