Author : Michael Keren,Holger H. Herwig
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786452774
War Memory and Popular Culture by Michael Keren,Holger H. Herwig Pdf
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. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.