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War MemoriesCommemoration, Recollections, and Writings on War |
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Shaping individual and collective war memories through the art of commemoration.
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, this collection presents an extensive, yet integrated, reflection on various types of commemoration 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.
Contributors include Joan Beaumont (Australian National University, Canberra), Gilles Chamerois (University of Brest, France), Subarno Chattarji (University of Delhi, India), Nicole Cloarec (Rennes 1 University, France), Corinne David-Ives (European University of Brittany - Rennes 2, France), Jeffrey Demsky (San Bernardino Valley College, California), Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University), Georges Fournier (Jean Moulin University, France), Annie Gagiano (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa), David Haigron (Rennes 2 University, France), Judith Keene (University of Sydney, Australia), Melissa King (San Bernardino Valley College, California), Christine Knauer (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany), Liliane Louvel (University of Poitiers), Michelle P. Moore (Canadian Army Doctrine and Training Centre, Kingston, Ontario), John Mullen (University of Rouen, France), Lorie-Anne Duech-Rainville (Caen University, France), Elizabeth Rechniewski (Australian Research Council Discovery Project), Raphaël Ricaud (University ‘Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense’, France), Laura Robinson (Royal Military College of Canada), and Isabelle Roblin (Université du Littoral-Côte d’Opale, France).
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, this collection presents an extensive, yet integrated, reflection on various types of commemoration 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.
Contributors include Joan Beaumont (Australian National University, Canberra), Gilles Chamerois (University of Brest, France), Subarno Chattarji (University of Delhi, India), Nicole Cloarec (Rennes 1 University, France), Corinne David-Ives (European University of Brittany - Rennes 2, France), Jeffrey Demsky (San Bernardino Valley College, California), Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University), Georges Fournier (Jean Moulin University, France), Annie Gagiano (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa), David Haigron (Rennes 2 University, France), Judith Keene (University of Sydney, Australia), Melissa King (San Bernardino Valley College, California), Christine Knauer (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Germany), Liliane Louvel (University of Poitiers), Michelle P. Moore (Canadian Army Doctrine and Training Centre, Kingston, Ontario), John Mullen (University of Rouen, France), Lorie-Anne Duech-Rainville (Caen University, France), Elizabeth Rechniewski (Australian Research Council Discovery Project), Raphaël Ricaud (University ‘Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense’, France), Laura Robinson (Royal Military College of Canada), and Isabelle Roblin (Université du Littoral-Côte d’Opale, France).
Details
Part of the Human Dimensions in Foreign Policy, Military Studies, and Security Studies Series (number 3 in series)
448 Pages, 6 x 9
6 photos
ISBN 9780773547933
May 2017
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
“War Memories introduces a new perspective by shedding light on unknown aspects of the field. The diversity of articles, the many wars mentioned, and the great number of countries concerned with war memories are but some of the elements that make this volume an original and interesting read.” Gilles Teulié, Aix-Marseille Université
Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger is associate professor at the Royal Military College of Canada and co-editor of Military Operations and the Mind: War Ethics and Soldiers’ Well-Being.
Renée Dickason is professor of British cultural and media history at Rennes 2 University.
Renée Dickason is professor of British cultural and media history at Rennes 2 University.
Contents
Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger and Renée Dickason
PART ONE REAPPROPRIATING HISTORY:
MONUMENTS AND COMMEMORATIONS
1 Their Forgotten War: Veterans and the Korean War in
American Memory 11
Christine Knauer
2 Aesthetics versus Ownership: Artists and Soldiers in the
Design of the National Korean War Veterans Memorial,
Washington, DC 33
Judith Keene
3 Australia’s Memorial Building on the Western Front,
1916-2015 55
Joan Beaumont
4 Monument Missions: Remembrance, Reconstruction, and
Transatlantic Memory in Postwar Europe, 1945-1962 69
Sam Edwards
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 101
Isabelle Roblin
6 “The Distant Shores of Freedom”: Recollecting and
Rehabilitating Vietnam in America 115
Subarno Chattarji
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 132
Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger and Michelle Moore
8 A Duty to Remember, a Duty to Forget: Examining Americans’
Unequal Memories of the War on Armenians and the War
on Jews 148
Jeffrey Demsky and Melissa King
9 Representing My Lai: Duty of Memory or Memory
of Duty? 186
Raphaël Ricaud
10 Zimbabwean Liberation War Memories: Two Perspectives -
Harvest of Thorns (Shimmer Chinodya) and Echoing Silences
(Alexander Kanengoni) 201
Annie Gagiano
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 218
Laura M. Robinson
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 235
Renée Dickason
13 War Memory in British Soldier Songs of the First World War 257
John Mullen
14 Stanley Spencer: A Very Private Memorial 276
Liliane Louvel
15 Shining Faces: Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line
in the Light of Levinas 294
Gilles Chamerois
16 Our War (BBC3) - The War in Afghanistan as Filmed by
British Soldiers: From Capturing the Real to Building a
Narrative and a Discourse 314
David Haigron
17 Diary as Activism: The Case of The Diary of an Unknown
Soldier 334
Georges Fournier
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) 350
Nicole Cloarec
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 373
Corinne David-Ives
20 Remembering the Black Diggers: From “the Great Silence”
to “Conspicuous Commemoration”? 388
Elizabeth Rechniewski
21 The Return of the Native: Remembering the Circle in Joseph
Boyden’s Three Day Road 409
Lorie-Anne Duech-Rainville
Contributors 425
Index 433
Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 3
Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger and Renée Dickason
PART ONE REAPPROPRIATING HISTORY:
MONUMENTS AND COMMEMORATIONS
1 Their Forgotten War: Veterans and the Korean War in
American Memory 11
Christine Knauer
2 Aesthetics versus Ownership: Artists and Soldiers in the
Design of the National Korean War Veterans Memorial,
Washington, DC 33
Judith Keene
3 Australia’s Memorial Building on the Western Front,
1916-2015 55
Joan Beaumont
4 Monument Missions: Remembrance, Reconstruction, and
Transatlantic Memory in Postwar Europe, 1945-1962 69
Sam Edwards
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 101
Isabelle Roblin
6 “The Distant Shores of Freedom”: Recollecting and
Rehabilitating Vietnam in America 115
Subarno Chattarji
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 132
Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger and Michelle Moore
8 A Duty to Remember, a Duty to Forget: Examining Americans’
Unequal Memories of the War on Armenians and the War
on Jews 148
Jeffrey Demsky and Melissa King
9 Representing My Lai: Duty of Memory or Memory
of Duty? 186
Raphaël Ricaud
10 Zimbabwean Liberation War Memories: Two Perspectives -
Harvest of Thorns (Shimmer Chinodya) and Echoing Silences
(Alexander Kanengoni) 201
Annie Gagiano
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 218
Laura M. Robinson
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 235
Renée Dickason
13 War Memory in British Soldier Songs of the First World War 257
John Mullen
14 Stanley Spencer: A Very Private Memorial 276
Liliane Louvel
15 Shining Faces: Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line
in the Light of Levinas 294
Gilles Chamerois
16 Our War (BBC3) - The War in Afghanistan as Filmed by
British Soldiers: From Capturing the Real to Building a
Narrative and a Discourse 314
David Haigron
17 Diary as Activism: The Case of The Diary of an Unknown
Soldier 334
Georges Fournier
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) 350
Nicole Cloarec
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 373
Corinne David-Ives
20 Remembering the Black Diggers: From “the Great Silence”
to “Conspicuous Commemoration”? 388
Elizabeth Rechniewski
21 The Return of the Native: Remembering the Circle in Joseph
Boyden’s Three Day Road 409
Lorie-Anne Duech-Rainville
Contributors 425
Index 433
