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War and RemembranceRecollecting and Representing War |
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Challenging hegemonic narratives of war by spotlighting the intimate memories of witnesses.
Memory, while seemingly a thing of the past, has much to reveal in the present. With its focus on memory, War and Remembrance provides new viewpoints in the field of war representation.
Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to discussions of the cultural memory of war, the collection focuses on narratives, either fictional or testimonial, that challenge ideological discourses of war. The acts of remembrance and of waging war are constantly evolving. A range of case studies - analyzing representations of war in art, film, museums, and literature from Nigeria, Australia, Sri Lanka, Canada, and beyond - questions our current approaches to memory studies while offering reinterpretations of established narratives. Throughout, a commitment to Indigenous perspectives, to examining the ongoing legacy of colonialism, and to a continued reckoning with the Second World War foregrounds what is often forgotten in the writing of a single, official history.
War and Remembrance invites readers to cast a reflexive look at wars and conflicts past - some of them forgotten, others still vividly commemorated - the better to understand the cultural, political, and social stake of memory as a source of conflict and exchange, of resistance and opposition, and of negotiation and reconciliation.
Bringing an interdisciplinary approach to discussions of the cultural memory of war, the collection focuses on narratives, either fictional or testimonial, that challenge ideological discourses of war. The acts of remembrance and of waging war are constantly evolving. A range of case studies - analyzing representations of war in art, film, museums, and literature from Nigeria, Australia, Sri Lanka, Canada, and beyond - questions our current approaches to memory studies while offering reinterpretations of established narratives. Throughout, a commitment to Indigenous perspectives, to examining the ongoing legacy of colonialism, and to a continued reckoning with the Second World War foregrounds what is often forgotten in the writing of a single, official history.
War and Remembrance invites readers to cast a reflexive look at wars and conflicts past - some of them forgotten, others still vividly commemorated - the better to understand the cultural, political, and social stake of memory as a source of conflict and exchange, of resistance and opposition, and of negotiation and reconciliation.
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Part of the Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies Series (number 18 in series)
536 Pages, 6 x 9
27 illustrations
ISBN 9780228010685
June 2022
Formats: Cloth, eBook
“By attempting to overcome the national and temporal boundaries that often inhibit comprehensions of social memory, War and Remembrance expands our knowledge of how past armed conflicts are now interpreted while also advancing knowledge regarding the ways that our modes and orientations to history have shifted.” Brad West, University of South Australia and author of Finding Gallipoli: Battlefield Remembrance and the Movement of Australian and Turkish History
“War and Remembrance makes a valuable contribution to the academic field of the cultural representations of war memories in various geographical and historical settings. The wide variety of topics and the authors’ high level of scholarship offer valuable insights for scholars and students interested in the study of war history or cultural memory.” Medicine, Conflict and Survival
“The book’s vivid insights into the ‘gigantic puzzle of war representations’ offer a fresh perspective on collective identities [and] presents a tapestry of contributions that allows readers to gain a uniquely international perspective on the ways in which past wars shape societies today. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine shows, both cultural and material battles can be waged under the guise of a commitment to memory.” International Affairs
“War and Remembrance makes a valuable contribution to the academic field of the cultural representations of war memories in various geographical and historical settings. The wide variety of topics and the authors’ high level of scholarship offer valuable insights for scholars and students interested in the study of war history or cultural memory.” Medicine, Conflict and Survival
“The book’s vivid insights into the ‘gigantic puzzle of war representations’ offer a fresh perspective on collective identities [and] presents a tapestry of contributions that allows readers to gain a uniquely international perspective on the ways in which past wars shape societies today. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine shows, both cultural and material battles can be waged under the guise of a commitment to memory.” International Affairs
Renée Dickason is a professor at the University of Rennes, France.
Delphine Letort is a professor at the University of Le Mans, France.
Michel Prum is an emeritus professor at the Université de Paris.
Stéphanie Bélanger is a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada.
Delphine Letort is a professor at the University of Le Mans, France.
Michel Prum is an emeritus professor at the Université de Paris.
Stéphanie Bélanger is a professor at the Royal Military College of Canada.
Figures xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 3
Renée Dickason, Delphine Letort, Michel Prum, Stéphanie Bélanger
Part 1: Remembering war from indigenous perspectives
1 War Voices: Australian Aboriginal Political Revolt Post-First World War 25
John Maynard
2 War Memories and Indigenous Stereotypes:The Fabrication of the Maori Warrior 36
Corinne David-Ives
3 “This Day Is Not for You”: The Commemorative Displacement of Black Wars in White Australia 57
Elizabeth Rechniewski and Matthew Graves
4 Allies or Enemies? The Representation of Black Soldiers in Recent French, British, and Canadian Great War Fiction 76
Anna Branach-Kallas
5 Selective Remembering and Motivated Forgetting: The Primacy of National Identity in Australia’s Differential Memorialization of Its Wars 89
Sheila Collingwood-Whittick
Part 2: Memories of colonial involvement and civil wars
6 The Gurkha with the Khukuri between His Teeth: First World War Postcards and Combat Representations of Nepalese and Indian Colonial Troops 111
Gilles Teulié
7 The Humour of an Indian Soldier’s Memories of the First World War in M.R. Anand’s Across the Black Waters (1939) 143
Florence Cabaret
8 Picturing Control:The Visual Representation of the Kenya Emergency 158
Keith Bell
9 The Meaning of the American Civil War in Southern Memory 175
Stephen J. Whitfield
10 Between Nigeria and Biafra: Locating Ethnic Minorities in Narratives of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-70 193
Dominique Otigbah
Part 3: Recollections of world wars
11 Light and Not-So-Light Reflections in the Wipers Times’ Trench Journal and in the Satirical Magazine Punch or The London Charivari (1939-45): What Narratives, What Recollections? 219
Renée Dickason
12 Writing the Blitz, Listening to the Nation: Personal Narratives of the Blitz and the Construction of a Collective Aural Identity in British Cinema of the Second World War 260
Anita Jorge
13 The Literature of Intervention: US Participation in the Second World War 277
Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
14 Fighting Fascism? The Second World War in British Far-Right Memory 295
Paul Stocker
15 The National World War II Museum, New Orleans: An Architectural Interpretation of War 311
Victoria Young
Part 4: Remembering and forgetting war
16 War on Memorialization: Constructive and Destructive Holocaust Remembrance on American Sitcoms, 1990-2000s 327
Jeffrey Demsky
17 Of Wars, Scars, and Celluloid Memory: Representations of War in Sri Lankan Cinema (2000-10) 348
Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin
18 The Spanish-American War on Film: An International Approach 363
András Lénárt
19 Wings (William Wellman, 1927) and Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932): The Psychological Drama of Memory and the Modern Pacifist Narrative 379
Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard
20 Peacekeeping Forces and Their Filmic Representations: The Case of Peter Kosminsky’s Warriors (1999) and The Promise (2011) 394
Georges Fournier
Part 5: Intimate memories of war
21 Requiem for a Tommy: Impersonality and Subjectivity in Stuart Cooper’s Overlord (1975) 415
Nicole Cloarec
22 “Our Visit to Waterloo”: Representing the Battlefield in the Memoirs of Charlotte Eaton and Elizabeth Butler 432
Nathalie Saudo-Welby
23 Historically Estranged Generations: Memorials and the Relevance Effect in Nigel Farndale’s The Blasphemer and Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key 448
Marzena Sokołowska-Paryz˙
24 An “Abominable Epoch”: An Australian Woman’s Perception of Occupied France 464
Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal
25 Robert Briffault’s War Letters: A Divided Self under Fire 480
Emmanuel Roudaut
Contributors 497
Index 511
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 3
Renée Dickason, Delphine Letort, Michel Prum, Stéphanie Bélanger
Part 1: Remembering war from indigenous perspectives
1 War Voices: Australian Aboriginal Political Revolt Post-First World War 25
John Maynard
2 War Memories and Indigenous Stereotypes:The Fabrication of the Maori Warrior 36
Corinne David-Ives
3 “This Day Is Not for You”: The Commemorative Displacement of Black Wars in White Australia 57
Elizabeth Rechniewski and Matthew Graves
4 Allies or Enemies? The Representation of Black Soldiers in Recent French, British, and Canadian Great War Fiction 76
Anna Branach-Kallas
5 Selective Remembering and Motivated Forgetting: The Primacy of National Identity in Australia’s Differential Memorialization of Its Wars 89
Sheila Collingwood-Whittick
Part 2: Memories of colonial involvement and civil wars
6 The Gurkha with the Khukuri between His Teeth: First World War Postcards and Combat Representations of Nepalese and Indian Colonial Troops 111
Gilles Teulié
7 The Humour of an Indian Soldier’s Memories of the First World War in M.R. Anand’s Across the Black Waters (1939) 143
Florence Cabaret
8 Picturing Control:The Visual Representation of the Kenya Emergency 158
Keith Bell
9 The Meaning of the American Civil War in Southern Memory 175
Stephen J. Whitfield
10 Between Nigeria and Biafra: Locating Ethnic Minorities in Narratives of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-70 193
Dominique Otigbah
Part 3: Recollections of world wars
11 Light and Not-So-Light Reflections in the Wipers Times’ Trench Journal and in the Satirical Magazine Punch or The London Charivari (1939-45): What Narratives, What Recollections? 219
Renée Dickason
12 Writing the Blitz, Listening to the Nation: Personal Narratives of the Blitz and the Construction of a Collective Aural Identity in British Cinema of the Second World War 260
Anita Jorge
13 The Literature of Intervention: US Participation in the Second World War 277
Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
14 Fighting Fascism? The Second World War in British Far-Right Memory 295
Paul Stocker
15 The National World War II Museum, New Orleans: An Architectural Interpretation of War 311
Victoria Young
Part 4: Remembering and forgetting war
16 War on Memorialization: Constructive and Destructive Holocaust Remembrance on American Sitcoms, 1990-2000s 327
Jeffrey Demsky
17 Of Wars, Scars, and Celluloid Memory: Representations of War in Sri Lankan Cinema (2000-10) 348
Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin
18 The Spanish-American War on Film: An International Approach 363
András Lénárt
19 Wings (William Wellman, 1927) and Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932): The Psychological Drama of Memory and the Modern Pacifist Narrative 379
Raphaëlle Costa de Beauregard
20 Peacekeeping Forces and Their Filmic Representations: The Case of Peter Kosminsky’s Warriors (1999) and The Promise (2011) 394
Georges Fournier
Part 5: Intimate memories of war
21 Requiem for a Tommy: Impersonality and Subjectivity in Stuart Cooper’s Overlord (1975) 415
Nicole Cloarec
22 “Our Visit to Waterloo”: Representing the Battlefield in the Memoirs of Charlotte Eaton and Elizabeth Butler 432
Nathalie Saudo-Welby
23 Historically Estranged Generations: Memorials and the Relevance Effect in Nigel Farndale’s The Blasphemer and Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key 448
Marzena Sokołowska-Paryz˙
24 An “Abominable Epoch”: An Australian Woman’s Perception of Occupied France 464
Sylvie Pomiès-Maréchal
25 Robert Briffault’s War Letters: A Divided Self under Fire 480
Emmanuel Roudaut
Contributors 497
Index 511
