Australian war memorials: a nation reimagined
Edited book (chapter)
Chapter Title | Australian war memorials: a nation reimagined |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 2865 |
Book Title | The Palgrave handbook of artistic and cultural responses to war since 1914: the British Isles, the United States and Australasia |
Authors | Kerby, Martin (Author), Bywaters, Malcom (Author) and Baguley, Margaret (Author) |
Editors | Kerby, Martin, Baguley, Margaret and McDonald, Janet |
Page Range | 553-573 |
Chapter Number | 30 |
Number of Pages | 21 |
Year | 2019 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of Publication | Cham, Switzerland |
ISBN | 9783319969855 |
9783319969862 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_30 |
Web Address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-96986-2_30 |
Abstract | Since the end of the First World War the war memorial has become a ubiquitous presence in the Australian commemorative landscape. Serving initially as sites of personal and communal grief and a focus for those intent on nation building, they have proved to be remarkably durable symbols of national identity and communal memory. Yininmadyemi Thou didst let fall (2015) and the Australian Peacekeeping Memorial (2017) are recent additions, ones that seek to respectively recognize the military service of Indigenous Australians and Peacekeepers. Both represent a challenge to orthodoxy, the former in subject matter and the latter in style. Yet their capacity to disrupt conventional wisdom is as yet untested. Both may well be subsumed into the broader military narrative that elevates the original Anzacs to the status of founding fathers. |
Keywords | Australia, Australian peacekeeping memorial, Indigenous Australians, peacekeepers, war memorials, Yininmadyemi Thou didst fall |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 450107. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history |
430302. Australian history | |
360602. Fine arts | |
Public Notes | Files associated with this item cannot be displayed due to copyright restrictions. |
Byline Affiliations | School of Teacher Education and Early Childhood |
University of Tasmania | |
School of Linguistics, Adult and Specialist Education | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q4zyq/australian-war-memorials-a-nation-reimagined
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