War memories : commemoration, recollections, and writings on war / edited by Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger and Renée Dickason.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickason, Renée, editor.

Bélanger, Stéphanie A. H., 1972- editor.

Series:

Human dimensions in foreign policy, military studies, and security studies ; 3.

Human dimensions in foreign policy, military studies, and security studies ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society.

War memorials.

War and literature.

Collective memory.

Memorialization.

Memory--Sociological aspects.

Memory.

Physical Description:

vii, 435 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montréal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2017]

Summary:

"War Memories explores the patchwork formed by collective memory, public remembrance, private recollection, and the ways in which they form a complex composition of observations, initiatives, and experiences. Offering an international perspective on war commemoration, contributors consider the process of assembling historical facts and subjective experiences to show how these points of view diverge according to various social, cultural, political, and historical perspectives. Encompassing the representations of wars in the English-speaking world over the last hundred years or so, this collection presents an extensive, yet integrated, reflection on various types of commemorations and interpretations of events. Essays respond to common questions regarding war memory: how and why do we remember war? What does commemoration tell us about the actors in wars? How does commemoration reflect contemporary society's culture of war? War Memories disseminates current knowledge on the performance, interpretation, and rewriting of facts and events during and after wars, while focusing on how patriotic fervour, resistance, conscientious objection, injury, trauma, and propaganda contribute to the shaping of individual and collective memory."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Reappropriating History: Monuments and Commemorations

1 Their Forgotten War: Veterans and the Korean War in American Memory / Christine Knauer Knauer, Christine 11

2 Aesthetics versus Ownership: Artists and Soldiers in the Design of the National Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, DC / Judith Keene Keene, Judith 33

3 Australia's Memorial Building on the Western Front, 1916-2015 / Joan Beaumont Beaumont, Joan 55

4 Monument Missions: Remembrance, Reconstruction, and Transatlantic Memory in Postwar Europe, 1945-1962 / Sam Edwards Edwards, Sam 69

Part 2 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 / Isabelle Roblin Roblin, Isabelle 101

6 "The Distant Shores of Freedom": Recollecting and Rehabilitating Vietnam in America / Subarno Chattarji Chattarji, Subarno 115

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 / Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger Bélanger, Stéphanie A.H., Michelle Moore Moore, Michelle 132

8 A Duty to Remember, a Duty to Forget: Examining Americans' Unequal Memories of the War on Armenians and the War on Jews / Jeffrey Demsky Demsky, Jeffrey, Melissa King King, Melissa 148

9 Representing My Lai: Duty of Memory or Memory of Duty? / Raphaél Ricaud Ricaud, Raphaél 186

10 Zimbabwean Liberation War Memories: Two Perspectives - Harvest of Thorns (Shimmer Chinodya) and Echoing Silences (Alexander Kanengoni) / Annie Gagiano Gagiano, Annie 201

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 / Laura M. Robinson Robinson, Laura M. 218

Part 3 Collective War Memories in Art and Popular Fictions

12 (Re)Telling World War II in British Comic-Land from the 1940s to the 1960s / Renée Dickason Dickason, Renée 235

13 War Memory in British Soldier Songs of the First World War / John Mullen Mullen, John 257

14 Stanley Spencer: A Very Private Memorial / Liliane Louvel Louvel, Liliane 276

15 Shining Faces: Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line in the Light of Levinas / Gilles Chamerois Chamerois, Gilles 294

16 Our War (BBC3) - The War in Afghanistan as Filmed by British Soldiers: From Capturing the Real to Building a Narrative and a Discourse / David Haigron Haigron, David 314

17 Diary as Activism: The Case of The Diary of an Unknown Soldier / Georges Fournier Fournier, Georges 334

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) / Nicole Cloarec Cloarec, Nicole 350

Part 4 "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 / Corinne David-Ives David-Ives, Corinne 373

20 Remembering the Black Diggers: From "the Great Silence" to "Conspicuous Commemoration"? / Elizabeth Rechniewski Rechniewski, Elizabeth 388

21 The Return of the Native: Remembering the Circle in Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road / Lorie-Anne Duech-Rainville Duech-Rainville, Lorie-Anne 409.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

War memories.

ISBN:

9780773547933

0773547932

9780773547940

0773547940

OCLC:

948339670