书目名称 | Memory and the Wars on Terror |
副标题 | Australian and Briti |
编辑 | Jessica Gildersleeve,Richard Gehrmann |
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概述 | Originality: focuses on the impact of the events of 9/11 outside the US.Timeliness: will tap into increased interest in 9/11 (following the fifteenth anniversary in 2016) and the centenaries of both W |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies |
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描述 | This edited collection aims to respond to dominant perspectives on twenty-first-century war by exploring how the events of 9/11 and the subsequent Wars on Terror are represented and remembered outside of the US framework. Existing critical coverage ignores the meaning of these events for people, nations and cultures apparently peripheral to them but which have - as shown in this collection - been extraordinarily affected by the social, political and cultural changes these wars have wrought. Adopting a literary and cultural history approach, the book asks how these events resonate and continue to show effects in the rest of the world, with a particular focus on Australia and Britain. It argues that such reflections on the impact of the Wars on Terror help us to understand what global conflict means in a contemporary context, as well as what its representative motifs might tell us about how nations like Australia and Britain perceive and construct their remembered identities on the worldstage in the twenty-first century. In its close examination of films, novels, memoir, visual artworks, media, and minority communities in the years since 2001, this collection looks at the global impa |
出版日期 | Book 2017 |
关键词 | terrorism; war on terror; twenty-first century; Western society; militarisation; Western power; collective |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56976-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-86048-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-56976-5Series ISSN 2634-6257 Series E-ISSN 2634-6265 |
issn_series | 2634-6257 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 |