The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration

Abstract

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 Part II. Case Studies 2. Layers of memory: 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