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. 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780765808158
• ISBN-10: 0765808153
• Artikelnr.: 21040792

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