Disasters and Heroes : On War, Memory and Representation
by
Angus Calder
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0708318673
ISBN-13
9780708318676
Publisher
University of Wales Press
Imprint
University of Wales Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 16th, 2004
Print length
281 Pages
Weight
424 grams
Dimensions
21.80 x 13.90 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesViolence in society
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A collection of Angus Calder's work dealing with war and memory. Beginning with a section devoted to war memorials and the public remembrance of war, the collection then looks at the lived experience of war for the "ordinary" soldier.
Images of war and its commemoration are an everyday presence in contemporary culture, from the embedded reporter in the field to the Last Post at the Menin Gate. Disasters and Heroes: On War, Memory and Representation revisits campaigns from the plains of Troy to recent events in the Balkans, examining how wars are represented and remembered. Angus Calder shows how the ''facts''of war are transformed into myths that condition later responses to war, and how the construction of memory begins with wartime events themselves.
Beginning with a section devoted to war memorials and the public remembrance of war, such as D-Day commemorations, the essays collected in Disasters and Heroes then look at the lived experience of war for ''ordinary'' people, while the final section deals with literary representation of war, from The Iliad to T.E. Lawrence and on to Christa Wolf''s Cassandra. Disasters and Heroes is a thought-provoking collection dealing with issues of major significance which recent events have made painfully topical.
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