War Memories: Commemoration, Recollections, and Writings on War

✍ Scribed by Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger (editor); Renée Dickason (editor)

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 449
• Series: Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies; 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Shaping individual and collective war memories through the art of commemoration.

Shaping individual and collective war memories through the art of commemoration.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Copyright
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: REAPPROPRIATING HISTORY: MONUMENTS AND COMMEMORATIONS
1: Their Forgotten War: Veterans and the Korean War in American Memory
2: Aesthetics versus Ownership: Artists and Soldiers in the Design of the National Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC
3: Australia's Memorial Building on the Western Front, 1916–2015
4: Monument Missions: Remembrance, Reconstruction, and Transatlantic Memory in Postwar Europe, 1945–1962
PART TWO: WAR NARRATIVES: RECOLLECTIONS AND (RE) WRITINGS
5: The Time Has Come to Talk of Many Things: Wars, and Deaths, and Remembrance in Graham Swift's Wish You Were Here
6: "The Distant Shores of Freedom": Recollecting and Rehabilitating Vietnam in America
7: Frame Stories of War Narratives in Contemporary War Testimonies: How the Canadian Soldier Tells His Own Experience of War through the Lenses of Historical War Narratives
8: A Duty to Remember, a Duty to Forget: Examining Americans' Unequal Memories of the War on Armenians and the War on Jews
9: Representing My Lai: Duty of Memory or Memory of Duty?
10: Zimbabwean Liberation War Memories: Two Perspectives – Harvest of Thorns (Shimmer Chinodya) and Echoing Silences (Alexander Kanengoni)
11: "What does it matter to us?" War and the Masculine Ideal in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and L.M. Montgomery's Rilla of Ingleside
PART THREE: COLLECTIVE WAR MEMORIES IN ART AND POPULAR FICTIONS
12: (Re)Telling World War II in British Comic-Land from the 1940s to the 1960s
13: War Memory in British Soldier Songs of the First World War
14: Stanley Spencer: A Very Private Memorial
15: Shining Faces: Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line in the Light of Levinas
16: Our War (BBC3) – The War in Afghanistan as Filmed by British Soldiers: From Capturing the Real to Building a Narrative and a Discourse
17: Diary as Activism: The Case of The Diary of an Unknown Soldier
18: Tunes of Glory or Jarring Notes? Filming the Great War in Music: Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough, 1969) and War Requiem (Derek Jarman, 1989)
PART FOUR: "WITH DUE REVERENCE": REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN FIGHTERS
19: Integration Politics and the New Zealand Army: The Fate of the Maori Battalion in the Wake of the Second World War
20: Remembering the Black Diggers: From "the Great Silence" to "Conspicuous Commemoration"?
21: The Return of the Native: Remembering the Circle in Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road
Contributors
Index