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Using a rich body of primary sources including autobiographies,
diaries, and letters, this survey reveals how upper middle-class
men in early 20th-century Britain were socialized into class and
gender roles in ways that fostered powerful affiliations with
social institutions and ideologies. A closer look at case studies
of key figures such as Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and W. H.
R. Rivers, as well as lesser-known individuals such as the
Liverpool businessman, Gypsiologist and volunteer soldier Scott
Macfie, and the Communist literary critic Alick West, helps to
answer the following questions: "How do individuals come to form
political affiliations?" and "What are the origins of the bonds of
attachment and loyalty which develop between individuals, political
parties, social movements, and the nation state?" Drawing on
theories of nationalism, masculinity, and psychoanalysis, this
study investigates the profound impact of the World War I, which
for some offered an escape from or reconciliation of existing
conflicts with family and nation, but for others subverted their
existing loyalties, leading them to challenge the values within
which they had been educated.
Using a rich body of primary sources including autobiographies,
diaries, and letters, this survey reveals how upper middle-class
men in early 20th-century Britain were socialized into class and
gender roles in ways that fostered powerful affiliations with
social institutions and ideologies. A closer look at case studies
of key figures such as Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and W. H.
R. Rivers, as well as lesser-known individuals such as the
Liverpool businessman, Gypsiologist and volunteer soldier Scott
Macfie, and the Communist literary critic Alick West, helps to
answer the following questions: "How do individuals come to form
political affiliations?" and "What are the origins of the bonds of
attachment and loyalty that develop between individuals, political
parties, social movements, and the nation state?" Drawing on
theories of nationalism, masculinity, and psychoanalysis, this
study investigates the profound impact of World War I, which for
some offered an escape from or reconciliation of existing conflicts
with family and nation, but for others subverted their existing
loyalties, leading them to challenge the values within which they
had been educated.
Mental and material reconstruction was an ongoing process after
World War II, and it still is. This volume combines a detailed
treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland -
a region on the geographical and historical margins of its
nation-state - with comparative case studies of silent post-war
memory from other European countries The contributors shed light on
key aspects of cultural reconstruction generally: disruptions of
national narratives, difficulties of post-war cultural
demobilisation, sites of memory, visual narratives of post-war
reconstruction, and manifestations of trans-generational
experiences of cultural reconstruction. Exploration of the less
conspicuous aspects of mental reconstruction reveals various forms
of post-war silence and silencing which have halted or hindered
different groups of people in their mental return to peace. Rather
than focusing on the "executive level" of material reconstruction,
the volume turns its gaze towards those who experienced the return
to peace in the mental, societal, and historical margins: members
of ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities, women, and children.
The chapters draw on archival and other original sources, personal
memories, autobiographical interpretations, and academic debate.
The volume is relevant for scholars and advanced students in the
fields of cultural history, art history, and cultural studies.
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 which 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 centre of a cultural world, and offers
an extensive argument about how the politics of commemoration
practices should be understood.
Mental and material reconstruction was an ongoing process after
World War II, and it still is. This volume combines a detailed
treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland -
a region on the geographical and historical margins of its
nation-state - with comparative case studies of silent post-war
memory from other European countries The contributors shed light on
key aspects of cultural reconstruction generally: disruptions of
national narratives, difficulties of post-war cultural
demobilisation, sites of memory, visual narratives of post-war
reconstruction, and manifestations of trans-generational
experiences of cultural reconstruction. Exploration of the less
conspicuous aspects of mental reconstruction reveals various forms
of post-war silence and silencing which have halted or hindered
different groups of people in their mental return to peace. Rather
than focusing on the "executive level" of material reconstruction,
the volume turns its gaze towards those who experienced the return
to peace in the mental, societal, and historical margins: members
of ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities, women, and children.
The chapters draw on archival and other original sources, personal
memories, autobiographical interpretations, and academic debate.
The volume is relevant for scholars and advanced students in the
fields of cultural history, art history, and cultural studies.
Contents: 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 Sjølyst-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
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