War Memory and Popular Culture: Essays on Modes of by Michael Keren,Holger H. Herwig

By Michael Keren,Holger H. Herwig

This choice of essays investigates such varied cars for warfare commemoration as poems, battlefield excursions, souvenirs, books, movies, architectural buildings, comics, web content, and games. Drawing on essayists from Australia, Canada, nice Britain, Israel and the USA, this paintings explores the evolution from conventional to modern varieties of warfare commemoration whereas addressing the elemental query of even if those new varieties of memorial are supposed to motivate the remembering or the forgetting of the event of warfare, in addition to what implications the method of commemoration could have for the continuation of the fashionable country state.
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