War and Remembrance: Recollecting and Representing War 9780228012672

Table of contents :
Cover
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE
Title
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1 REMEMBERING WAR FROM INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES
1 War Voices: Australian Aboriginal Political Revolt Post-First World War
2 War Memories and Indigenous Stereotypes: The Fabrication of the Maori Warrior
3 “This Day Is Not for You”: The Commemorative Displacement of Black Wars in White Australia
4 Allies or Enemies? The Representation of Black Soldiers in Recent French, British, and Canadian Great War Fiction
5 Selective Remembering and Motivated Forgetting: The Primacy of National Identity in Australia’s Differential Memorialization of Its Wars
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
7 The Humour of an Indian Soldier’s Memories of the First World War in M.R. Anand’s Across the Black Waters (1939)
8 Picturing Control: The Visual Representation of the Kenya Emergency
9 The Meaning of the American Civil War in Southern Memory
10 Between Nigeria and Biafra: Locating Ethnic Minorities in Narratives of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967–70
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?
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
13 The Literature of Intervention: US Participation in the Second World War
14 Fighting Fascism? The Second World War in British Far-Right Memory
15 The National World War II Museum, New Orleans: An Architectural Interpretation of War
PART 4 REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING WAR
16 War on Memorialization: Constructive and Destructive Holocaust Remembrance on American Sitcoms, 1990–2000s
17 Of Wars, Scars, and Celluloid Memory: Representations of War in Sri Lankan Cinema (2000–10)
18 The Spanish-American War on Film: An International Approach
19 Wings (William Wellman, 1927) and Broken Lullaby (Ernst Lubitsch, 1932): The Psychological Drama of Memory and the Modern Pacifist Narrative
20 Peacekeeping Forces and Their Filmic Representations: The Case of Peter Kosminsky’s Warriors (1999) and The Promise (2011)
PART 5 INTIMATE MEMORIES OF WAR
21 Requiem for a Tommy: Impersonality and Subjectivity in Stuart Cooper’s Overlord (1975)
22 “Our Visit to Waterloo”: Representing the Battlefield in the Memoirs of Charlotte Eaton and Elizabeth Butler
23 Historically Estranged Generations: Memorials and the Relevance Effect in Nigel Farndale’s The Blasphemer and Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key
24 An “Abominable Epoch”: An Australian Woman’s Perception of Occupied France
25 Robert Briffault’s War Letters: A Divided Self under Fire
Contributors
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