The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration

by T.G. Ashplant (Editor), Graham Dawson (Editor), Michael Roper (Editor)

Overview

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 which 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 centre of a cultural world, and offers an extensive argument about how the politics of commemoration practices should be understood.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415758451
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/08/2015
Series:	Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	299
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michael Roper, T.G. Ashplant, Graham Dawson

Table of Contents

Part I. Framing the Issues
Part II. Case Studies
Part III. Debates and Reviews

Editorial Reviews

Cultural historians, social scientists, and scholars from related disciplines analyze remembrance in a range of forms from the public commemorations orchestrated by nation-states to the personal testimonies of war survivors; from the cultural memories of war represented in films, plays, and novels to investigations of wartime atrocities in courts of human rights. Their case studies stray from the well trod paths of Vietnam and World War II to include Argentina, the Boer War, Australian settlers, Finnish war landscapes, Portuguese colonial wars, the First World War, and other conflicts remembered. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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