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Symbols of Defeat in the Construction of National Identity
If nationalism is the assertion of legitimacy for a nation and its effectiveness as a political entity, why do many nations emphasize images of their own defeat in understanding their history? Using Israel, Serbia, France, Greece and Ghana as examples, the author argues that this phenomenon exposes the ambivalence that lurks behind the passions nationalism evokes. Symbols of defeat glorify a nation's ancient past, while reenacting the destruction of that past as a necessary step in constructing a functioning modern society. As a result, these symbols often assume a foundational role in national mythology. Threats to such symbols are perceived as threats to the nation itself and consequently are met with desperation difficult for outsiders to understand.
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Symbols of defeat in the construction of national identity
\"THis is the first book to camparatively examine nations that emphasize images of their own defeat in their mythology and sense of history. Cases include Serbia, Israel, France, Greece and Ghana. Through exploring this phenomenon, it offers new insights into current theories in the study of nations and nationalism, incorporating approaches from diverse disciplines such as sociology, antropology and the psychology of religion\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Friction, Fragmentation, and Diversity
This collection focuses on difficult memories and diverse identities related to conflicts and localized politics of memories. It brings together methodological discussions from oral history research, cultural memory studies and the study of contemporary protest movements.
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Reinventing World War II
By the 1970s, World War II had all but disappeared from US
popular culture. But beginning in the mid-eighties it reemerged
with a vengeance, and for nearly fifteen years World War II was
ubiquitous across US popular and political culture. In this book,
Barbara A. Biesecker explores the prestige and rhetorical power of
the \"Good War,\" revealing how it was retooled to restore a new kind
of social equilibrium to the United States.
Biesecker analyzes prominent cases of World War II remembrance,
including the canceled exhibit of the Enola Gay at the National Air
and Space Museum in 1995 and its replacement, Steven Spielberg's
Saving Private Ryan , Tom Brokaw's The Greatest
Generation , and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Situating these popular memory texts within the culture and history
wars of the day and the broader framework of US political and
economic life, Biesecker argues that, with the notable exception of
the Holocaust Memorial Museum, these reinventions of the Good War
worked rhetorically to restore a strong sense of national identity
and belonging fitted to the neoliberal nationalist agenda.
By tracing the links between the popular retooling of World War
II and the national state fantasy, and by putting the lessons of
Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and their successors to work for a
rhetorical-political analysis of the present, Biesecker not only
explains the emergence and strength of the MAGA movement but also
calls attention to the power of public memory to shape and contest
ethnonational identity today. This book will interest rhetoricians
and historians as well as students and scholars in the fields of US
politics and communication studies.
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Cold war cultures
The Cold War was not only about the imperial ambitions of the super powers, their military strategies, and antagonistic ideologies. It was also about conflicting worldviews and their correlates in the daily life of the societies involved. The term \"Cold War Culture\" is often used in a broad sense to describe media influences, social practices, and symbolic representations as they shape, and are shaped by, international relations. Yet, it remains in question whether - or to what extent - the Cold War Culture model can be applied to European societies, both in the East and the West. While every European country had to adapt to the constraints imposed by the Cold War, individual development was affected by specific conditions as detailed in these chapters. This volume offers an important contribution to the international debate on this issue of the Cold War impact on everyday life by providing a better understanding of its history and legacy in Eastern and Western Europe.
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Memory and Change in Europe
In studies of a common European past, there is a significant lack of scholarship on the former Eastern Bloc countries. While understanding the importance of shifting the focus of European memory eastward, contributors to this volume avoid the trap of Eastern European exceptionalism, an assumption that this region's experiences are too unique to render them comparable to the rest of Europe. They offer a reflection on memory from an Eastern European historical perspective, one that can be measured against, or applied to, historical experience in other parts of Europe. In this way, the authors situate studies on memory in Eastern Europe within the broader debate on European memory.
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