Remembering the Second World War
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Remembering the Second World War
(Remembering the modern world)
Routledge, 2018
- : hbk
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Remembering the Second World War brings together an international and interdisciplinary cast of leading scholars to explore the remembrance of this conflict on a global scale. Conceptually, it is premised on the need to challenge nation-centric approaches in memory studies, drawing strength from recent transcultural, affective and multidirectional turns.
Divided into four thematic parts, this book largely focuses on the post-Cold War period, which has seen a notable upsurge in commemorative activity relating to the Second World War and significant qualitative changes in its character. The first part explores the enduring utility and the limitations of the national frame in France, Germany and China. The second explores transnational transactions in remembrance, looking at memories of the British Empire at war, contested memories in East-Central Europe and the transnational campaign on behalf of Japan's former 'comfort women'. A third section considers local and sectional memories of the war and the fourth analyses innovative practices of memory, including re-enactment, video gaming and Holocaust tourism.
Offering insightful contributions on intriguing topics and illuminating the current state of the art in this growing field, this book will be essential reading for all students and scholars of the history and memory of the Second World War.
Table of Contents
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
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