Commemorative Modernisms
Commemorative Modernisms

Author: Alice Kelly

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-07-06

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 1474459927

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This book provides the first sustained study of women's literary representations of death and the culture of war commemoration that underlies British and American literary modernism.

Commemorative Spaces of the First World War
Commemorative Spaces of the First World War

Author: James Wallis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-20

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1317309243

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This is the first book to bring together an interdisciplinary, theoretically engaged and global perspective on the First World War through the lens of historical and cultural geography. Reflecting the centennial interest in the conflict, the collection explores the relationships between warfare and space, and pays particular attention to how commemoration is connected to spatial elements of national identity, and processes of heritage and belonging. Venturing beyond military history and memory studies, contributors explore conceptual contributions of geography to analyse the First World War, as well as reflecting upon the imperative for an academic discussion on the War’s centenary. This book explores the War’s impact in more unexpected theatres, blurring the boundary between home and fighting fronts, investigating the experiences of the war amongst civilians and often overlooked combatants. It also critically examines the politics of hindsight in the post-war period, and offers an historical geographical account of how the First World War has been memorialised within ‘official’ spaces, in addition to those overlooked and often undervalued ‘alternative spaces’ of commemoration. This innovative and timely text will be key reading for students and scholars of the First World War, and more broadly in historical and cultural geography, social and cultural history, European history, Heritage Studies, military history and memory studies.

Commemorative Coin--Oregon Trail
Commemorative Coin--Oregon Trail

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency

Publisher:

Published: 1926

Total Pages: 20

ISBN-13:

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An act to authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces in commemoration of the heroism of the fathers and mothers who traversed the Oregon trail to the far west with great hardship, daring and loss of life, which not only resulted in adding new states to the union but earned a well-deserved and imperishable fame for the pioneers; to honor the 20,000 dead that lie buried in unknown graves along 2,000 miles of that great highway of history; to rescue the various important points along the old trail from oblivion; and to commemorate by suitable monuments, memorial or otherwise, the tragic events associated with that emigration--erecting them either along the trail itself or elsewhere, in localities appropriate for the purpose, including the city of Washington.

Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice
Commemorative Literacies and Labors of Justice

Author: James S. Damico

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-27

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 1000486982

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This book examines literacy practices of commemoration marking the 40th anniversary of the March 24, 1976 coup in Argentina. Drawing on research conducted across three distinct sites in Buenos Aires in March 2016—a public university, a Catholic church, and a former naval base and clandestine detention center transformed into a museum space for memory and justice—this book sheds light on the ways commemorative literacies at these locations work spatially to mobilize memory of the past to address and advance justice concerns in the present. These labors of justice manifest in three ways: as resistance, reconciliation, and recovery. Damico, Lybarger, and Brudney also demonstrate how these particular kinds of commemorative literacies resonate transnationally in ways that necessitate a commitment to commemorative ethics. This book is ideal not only for researchers, graduate students, and scholars in literacy studies but also for all those working in related fields, including memory studies, religious studies, area studies, and Latin American studies, to address issues pertaining to memory, testimony, transitional justice, state repression, and human rights in Argentina, Latin America, or the Global South, more generally.