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Informationen zum Autor Brad West is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages at the University of South Australia. He is the author of Re-enchanting Nationalisms: Rituals and Remembrances in a Postmodern Age (2015). Klappentext In a period characterised by an unprecedented cultural engagement with the past, individuals, groups and nations are debating and experimenting with commemoration in order to find culturally relevant ways of remembering warfare, genocide and terrorism. Zusammenfassung In a period characterised by an unprecedented cultural engagement with the past, individuals, groups and nations are debating and experimenting with commemoration in order to find culturally relevant ways of remembering warfare, genocide and terrorism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. War Commemoration and the Expansion of the Past Part 1: War Travels 2. 'It was like swimming through history": Tourist Moments at Gallipoli 3. Western Tourism and Dialogical Remembering of the American War in Vietnam 4. Battlefield Tourism in Singapore: National Narratives and the State Part 2: Commemoration and Eventness 5. Dawn Servers: Anzac Day 2015 and Hyper-Connective Commemoration 6. The Gallipoli Centenary: An International Perspective 7. 100 Days of Butchering: (Re)Presenting the Rwandan Genocide 20 Years On 8. Journalists and War Commemoration: Outlining Alternative Practices Part 3: Genre and the Re-writing of War 9. Unconstrained by Accuracy: Commemorating the Khan Younis Massacre through a Comic 10. Broadening the Cultural Memory of War: Travel Writing 11. Reporting WWII North Africa: Disrupting Colonialism and Orientalism in Moorehead's The Desert War 12. Anniversaries and Production of Fiction: Gallipoli
