War Memory and Popular Culture
Essays on Modes of Remembrance and Commemoration
Holger H Herwig editor Michael Keren editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:McFarland & Co Inc
Published:26th Jan '09
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This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefield tours, souvenirs, books, films, architectural structures, comics, websites, and video games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Israel and the United States, this work explores the evolution from traditional to contemporary forms of war commemoration while addressing the fundamental question of whether these new forms of memorial are meant to encourage the remembering or the forgetting of the experience of war, as well as what implications the process of commemoration may have for the continuation of the modern nation state.
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ISBN: 9780786441419
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
Weight: 290g
212 pages