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Memory and the Wars on Terror

Australian and British Perspectives

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Editors:
  1. Jessica Gildersleeve

    1. School of Arts and Communication, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

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  2. Richard Gehrmann

    1. School of Arts and Communication, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

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  • 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 WWI and the Gallipoli landings
  • Breadth of scope: includes contributors from across the literary and cultural studies fields
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Memory and the Wars on Terror

    • Jessica Gildersleeve, Richard Gehrmann
    Pages 1-19

  3. False Memories and Professional Culture: The Australian Defence Force, the Government and the Media at War in Afghanistan

    • Kevin Foster
    Pages 21-47

  4. The Limitations of Memory and the Language of the War on Terror in Australia, 2001–2003

    • Amanda Laugesen
    Pages 49-67

  5. Enemies of the State(S): Cultural Memory, Cinema, and the Iraq War

    • Richard Gehrmann
    Pages 69-89

  6. Remembering the Warriors: Cultural Memory, the Female Hero, and the ‘Logistics of Perception’ in Zero Dark Thirty

    • Christa van Raalte
    Pages 91-109

  7. Remembering the First World War After 9/11: Pat Barker’s Life Class and Toby’s Room

    • Jessica Gildersleeve
    Pages 111-123

  8. Novel Wars: David Malouf and the Invention of the Iliad

    • Kezia Whiting
    Pages 125-143

  9. In Extremis: Apocalyptic Imaginings in Janette Turner Hospital’s Post-9/11 Novels

    • Belinda McKay
    Pages 145-162

  10. ‘Shock and Awe’: The Memory of Trauma in Post-9/11 Artworks

    • Denise N. Rall
    Pages 163-182

  11. Bearing Witness to Injustice: Latin America, Refugees, and Memorialisation in Australia

    • Robert Mason
    Pages 183-200

  12. A Sense of Embattlement: Australian Jewish Community Leadership’s Response to 9/11

    • Dashiel Lawrence
    Pages 201-217

  13. Violent Femmes: Collective Memory After 9/11 and Women on the Front Line of Journalism

    • Rebecca Te’o
    Pages 219-235

  14. Death and the Maiden: Memorialisation, Scandal, and the Gendered Mediation of Australian Soldiers

    • Jessica Carniel
    Pages 237-262

  15. Reflecting on the Wars on Terror

    • Frank Bongiorno
    Pages 263-269

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 271-283
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About this book

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 impacts of these events, and the ways they have shaped, and continue to shape, Britain and Australia’s relation to the rest of the world.

Reviews

“The authors shed light on the old/dormant discourses created during the Cold War, and their relationship with the War on Terror, but also present voices illuminating perspectives … This book seeks to articulate these other perspectives, and to explain how the past interrogates the present in contexts of uncertainty and fear. As such it is a must-read project for those with an interest in the role of memory in war and terrorism.” (Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje,International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, Vol. 09 (1), January - March, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Arts and Communication, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia

    Jessica Gildersleeve, Richard Gehrmann

About the editors

Jessica Gildersleeve is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and a graduate of the University of Bristol.


Richard Gehrmann is Senior Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and a graduate of the University of Cambridge.  
 





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