War and Remembrance
Recollecting and Representing War
1st Edition
Published on 15. June 2022
536 pages
978-0-2280-1268-9 (ISBN)
Description
Memory, while seemingly a thing of the past, has much to reveal in the present. With its focus on memory, War and Remembrance provides new viewpoints in the field of war representation.
Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to discussions of the cultural memory of war, the collection focuses on narratives, either fictional or testimonial, that challenge ideological discourses of war. The acts of remembrance and of waging war are constantly evolving. A range of case studies - analyzing representations of war in art, film, museums, and literature from Nigeria, Australia, Sri Lanka, Canada, and beyond - questions our current approaches to memory studies while offering reinterpretations of established narratives. Throughout, a commitment to Indigenous perspectives, to examining the ongoing legacy of colonialism, and to a continued reckoning with the Second World War foregrounds what is often forgotten in the writing of a single, official history.
War and Remembrance invites readers to cast a reflexive look at wars and conflicts past - some of them forgotten, others still vividly commemorated - the better to understand the cultural, political, and social stake of memory as a source of conflict and exchange, of resistance and opposition, and of negotiation and reconciliation.
Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to discussions of the cultural memory of war, the collection focuses on narratives, either fictional or testimonial, that challenge ideological discourses of war. The acts of remembrance and of waging war are constantly evolving. A range of case studies - analyzing representations of war in art, film, museums, and literature from Nigeria, Australia, Sri Lanka, Canada, and beyond - questions our current approaches to memory studies while offering reinterpretations of established narratives. Throughout, a commitment to Indigenous perspectives, to examining the ongoing legacy of colonialism, and to a continued reckoning with the Second World War foregrounds what is often forgotten in the writing of a single, official history.
War and Remembrance invites readers to cast a reflexive look at wars and conflicts past - some of them forgotten, others still vividly commemorated - the better to understand the cultural, political, and social stake of memory as a source of conflict and exchange, of resistance and opposition, and of negotiation and reconciliation.
Reviews / Votes
"By attempting to overcome the national and temporal boundaries that often inhibit comprehensions of social memory, War and Remembrance expands our knowledge of how past armed conflicts are now interpreted while also advancing knowledge regarding the ways that our modes and orientations to history have shifted." Brad West, University of South Australia and author of Finding Gallipoli: Battlefield Remembrance and the Movement of Australian and Turkish History "War and Remembrance makes a valuable contribution to the academic field of the cultural representations of war memories in various geographical and historical settings. The wide variety of topics and the authors' high level of scholarship offer valuable insights for scholars and students interested in the study of war history or cultural memory." Medicine, Conflict and Survival "The book's vivid insights into the 'gigantic puzzle of war representations' offer a fresh perspective on collective identities [and] presents a tapestry of contributions that allows readers to gain a uniquely international perspective on the ways in which past wars shape societies today. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine shows, both cultural and material battles can be waged under the guise of a commitment to memory." International AffairsMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
27 illustrations
File size
6,54 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-2280-1268-9 (9780228012689)
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06/2022
McGill-Queen's University Press
€172.33
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Persons
Renee Dickason is professor at the University of Rennes. Delphine Letort is professor at the University of Le Mans. Michel Prum is emeritus professor at the Universite de Paris. Stephanie A.H. Belanger is professor at the Royal Military College of Canada.
Content
- Cover
- WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART 1 REMEMBERING WAR FROM INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES
- 1 War Voices: Australian Aboriginal Political Revolt Post-First World War
- 2 War Memories and Indigenous Stereotypes: The Fabrication of the Maori Warrior
- 3 "This Day Is Not for You": The Commemorative Displacement of Black Wars in White Australia
- 4 Allies or Enemies? The Representation of Black Soldiers in Recent French, British, and Canadian Great War Fiction
- 5 Selective Remembering and Motivated Forgetting: The Primacy of National Identity in Australia's Differential Memorialization of Its Wars
- PART 2 MEMORIES OF COLONIAL INVOLVEMENT AND CIVIL WARS
- 6 The Gurkha with the Khukuri between His Teeth: First World War Postcards and Combat Representations of Nepalese and Indian Colonial Troops
- 7 The Humour of an Indian Soldier's Memories of the First World War in M.R. Anand's Across the Black Waters (1939)
- 8 Picturing Control: The Visual Representation of the Kenya Emergency
- 9 The Meaning of the American Civil War in Southern Memory
- 10 Between Nigeria and Biafra: Locating Ethnic Minorities in Narratives of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-70
- PART 3 RECOLLECTIONS OF WORLD WARS
- 11 Light and Not-So-Light Reflections in the Wipers Times' Trench Journal and in the Satirical Magazine Punch or The London Charivari (1939-45): What Narratives, What Recollections?
- 12 Writing the Blitz, Listening to the Nation: Personal Narratives of the Blitz and the Construction of a Collective Aural Identity in British Cinema of the Second World War
- 13 The Literature of Intervention: US Participation in the Second World War
- 14 Fighting Fascism? The Second World War in British Far-Right Memory
- 15 The National World War II Museum, New Orleans: An Architectural Interpretation of War
- PART 4 REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING WAR
- 16 War on Memorialization: Constructive and Destructive Holocaust Remembrance on American Sitcoms, 1990-2000s
- 17 Of Wars, Scars, and Celluloid Memory: Representations of War in Sri Lankan Cinema (2000-10)
- 18 The Spanish-American War on Film: An International Approach
- 19 Wings (William Wellman, 1927) and Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932): The Psychological Drama of Memory and the Modern Pacifist Narrative
- 20 Peacekeeping Forces and Their Filmic Representations: The Case of Peter Kosminsky's Warriors (1999) and The Promise (2011)
- PART 5 INTIMATE MEMORIES OF WAR
- 21 Requiem for a Tommy: Impersonality and Subjectivity in Stuart Cooper's Overlord (1975)
- 22 "Our Visit to Waterloo": Representing the Battlefield in the Memoirs of Charlotte Eaton and Elizabeth Butler
- 23 Historically Estranged Generations: Memorials and the Relevance Effect in Nigel Farndale's The Blasphemer and Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key
- 24 An "Abominable Epoch": An Australian Woman's Perception of Occupied France
- 25 Robert Briffault's War Letters: A Divided Self under Fire
- Contributors
- Index
