ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|85 pages
Framing the Issues
part II|173 pages
Case Studies
chapter 4|17 pages
National Narratives, War Commemoration and Racial Exclusion in a Settler Society
The Australian Case
chapter 6|17 pages
Remembered/Replayed
The Nation and Male Subjectivity in the Second World War Films Ni Liv (Norway) and The Cruel Sea (Britain)
chapter 7|19 pages
Postmemory Cinema
Second-Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust in Don't Touch My Holocaust
chapter 9|18 pages
Longing for War
Nostalgia and Australian Returned Soldiers after the First World War
chapter 10|21 pages
Involuntary Commemorations
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and its Relationship to War Commemoration
part III|11 pages
Debates and Reviews
chapter 11|10 pages
War Commemoration in Western Europe
Changing Meanings, Divisive Loyalties, Unheard Voices
