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Sommario
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Patrick Finney
PART ONE: National Memory Cultures?
1. A Nation United? The Impossible Memory of War and Occupation in France
Margaret Atack
2. Generation War and Post-Didactic Memory: The Nazi Past in Contemporary Germany
Bill Niven
3. Remembering and Forgetting War and Occupation in the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong and Taiwan
Edward Vickers
PART TWO: Transnational Transactions
4. Isaac Fadoyebo’s Journey: Remembering the British Empire’s Second World War
Patrick Finney
5. The Soviet War Memorial in Vienna: Geopolitics of Memory and the New Russian Diaspora in Post-Cold War Europe
Tatiana Zhurzhenko
6. Abolitionism in the History of the Transnational ‘Justice for Comfort Women’ Movement in Japan and South Korea
Caroline Norma
PART THREE: Local and Sectional Memories
7. The Treachery of Memorials: Beyond War Remembrance in Contemporary Okinawa
Gerald Figal
8. The Yokohama War Cemetery, Japan: Imperial, National and Local Remembrance
Joan Beaumont
9. The Memory of the Joop Westerweel Resistance Movement in Israel and the Netherlands
Joyce van de Bildt
PART FOUR: Practices of Remembrance
10. A Holy Relic of War: The Soviet Victory Banner as Artefact
Jeremy Hicks
11. Experiencing and Performing Memory: Second World War Videogames as a Practice of Remembrance
Eva Kingsepp
12. Touching Landscapes? Embodied Experiences of Holocaust Tourism and Memory
Tim Cole
Afterword: Entangled Memories of the Second World War
Jie-Hyun Lim
Index
Info autore
Patrick Finney teaches in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University. He has published widely on collective memory, especially in relation to the Second World War, and on the international history of the twentieth century, especially in relation to the inter-war period. He is currently writing a book entitled How the Second World War Still Shapes Our Lives.
