(P/B) COMMEMORATING WAR

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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 that 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 center of a cultural world, and offers an extensive argument about how the politics of commemoration practices should be understood.
Commemorating War analyzes a range of forms of remembrance, from public commemorations orchestrated by nation-states to personal testimonies of war survivors; and from cultural memories of war represented in films, plays and novels to investigations of wartime atrocities in courts of human rights. It presents a wide range of international case studies, encompassing lesser-known national histories and wars beyond the well-trodden terrain of Vietnam and the two world wars in Europe.
Emerging from this book is an important critique of both "state-centered" approaches to war memory and those that regard commemoration primarily as a human response to loss and grief. Offering a wealth of empirical research material, this book will be important for cultural and oral historians, sociologists, researchers in international relations and human rights, and anybody with an interest in the cultural construction of memory in contemporary society. (From the publisher)

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Notes on contributors
Preface
PART I - Framing the issues
1. The politics of war memory and commemoration: contexts, structures and dynamics
T.G. ASHPLANT, GRAHAM DAWSON AND MICHAEL ROPER
1. The study of war memory and commemoration
2. The struggle to articulate war memories
3. Subjectivity and the cultural forms of war memory
4. Naming wars, framing memories
PART II - Case studies
2. Layers of memories: twenty years after in Argentina
ELIZABETH JELIN AND SUSANA G. KAUFMAN
3. The South African War/Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 and political memory in South Africa
BILL NASSON
4. National narratives, war commemoration and racial exclusion in a settler society: the Australian case
ANN CURTHOYS
5. 'This is where they fought': Finnish war landscapes as a national heritage
PETRI J. RAIVO
6. Remembered/replayed: the nation and male subjectivity in the Second World War films Ni Liv (Norway) and The Cruel Sea (Britain)
PETER SJOLYST-JACKSON
7. Postmemory cinema: second-generation Israelis screen the Holocaust in Don't Touch My Holocaust
YOSEFA LOSHITZKY
8. Hauntings: memory, fiction and the Portuguese colonial wars
PAULO DE MEDEIROS
9. Longing for war: nostalgia and Australian returned soldiers after the First World War
STEPHEN GARTON
10. Involuntary commemorations: post-traumatic stress disorder and its relationship to war commemoration
JO STANLEY
PART III - Debates and reviews
11. War commemoration in Western Europe: changing meanings, divisive loyalties, unheard voices
T.G. ASHPLANT
Index