War memory and commemoration have had increasingly high profiles in
public and academic debates in recent years. This volume examines
some of the social changes that have led to this development, among
them the passing of the two world wars from survivor into cultural
memory. Focusing on the politics of war memory and commemoration,
the book illuminates the struggle to install particular memories at
the center of a cultural world, and offers an extensive argument
about how the politics of commemoration practices should be
understood. Commemorating War analyzes a range of forms of
remembrance, from public commemorations orchestrated by
nation-states to personal testimonies of war survivors; and from
cultural memories of war represented in films, plays and novels to
investigations of wartime atrocities in courts of human rights. It
presents a wide range of international case studies, encompassing
lesser-known national histories and wars beyond the well-trodden
terrain of Vietnam and the two world wars in Europe. Emerging from
this book is an important critique of both "state-centered"
approaches to war memory and those that regard commemoration
primarily as a human response to loss and grief. Offering a wealth
of empirical research material, this book will be important for
cultural and oral historians, sociologists, researchers in
international relations and human rights, and anybody with an
interest in the cultural construction of memory in contemporary
society.
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