"War Memories explores the patchwork formed by collective memory, public remembrance, private recollection, and the ways in which they form a complex composition of observations, initiatives, and experiences. Offering an international perspective on war commemoration, contributors consider the process of assembling historical facts and subjective experiences to show how these points of view diverge according to various social, cultural, political, and historical perspectives. Encompassing the representations of wars in the English-speaking world over the last hundred years or so, this collection presents an extensive, yet integrated, reflection on various types of commemorations and interpretations of events. Essays respond to common questions regarding war memory: how and why do we remember war? What does commemoration tell us about the actors in wars? How does commemoration reflect contemporary society's culture of war? War Memories disseminates current knowledge on the performance, interpretation, and rewriting of facts and events during and after wars, while focusing on how patriotic fervour, resistance, conscientious objection, injury, trauma, and propaganda contribute to the shaping of individual and collective memory."-- Provided by publisher.

Introduction / Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger and Renée Dickason -- Part One : REAPPROPRIATING HISTORY : MONUMENTS and COMMEMORATIONS : 1. Their forgotten wars : veterans and the Korean war in american memory / Christine Knauer -- 2. Aesthetics versus ownership : artists and soldiers in the design of the national Korean War Veterans Memorial, Washington, D.C. / Judith Keene -- 3. Australia's memorial building on the western front, 1916-2015 / Joan Beaumont -- 4. Monument missions : rememberance, reconstruction, transatlantic memory in postwar Europe, 1945-1962 / Sam Edwards ; Part Two : WAR NARRATIVES : RECOLLECTIONS and (RE)WRITINGS : 5. The time has come to talk of many things: wars, and deaths, and remembrance in Graham Swift's 'Wish you were here' / Isabelle Roblin -- 6. "The distant shores of freedom" : recollecting and rehabilitating Vietnam in America / Subarno Chattarji -- 7. Frame stories of war narratives in contemporary war testimonies : how the Canadian soldier tells his own experience of war through the lenses of historical war narratives / Stéphanie A.H. Bélanger and Michelle Moore -- 8. Duty to remember, a duty to forget : examining Americans' unequal memories of the war on Armenians and the war on Jews / Jeffrey Demsky and Melissa King -- 9. Representing My Lai : duty of memory or memory of duty? / Raphaël Ricaud -- 10.Zimbabwean liberation war memories : two perspectives--Harvest of Thorns (Shimmer Chinodya) and Echoing silences (Alexander Kanengoni) / Annie Gagiano -- 11. "What does it matter to us?" War and the masculine ideal in Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" and L.M. Montgomery's "Rilla of Ingleside" / Laura M. Robinson ; Part Three : COLLECTIVE WAR MEMORIES in ART and POPULAR FICTIONS : 12. (Re)telling World War II in British comic-land from the 1940s to the 1960s / Renée Dickason -- 13. War memory in British soldier songs of the First World War / John Mullen -- 14. Stanley Spencer : a very private memorial / Liliane Louvel -- 15. Shining faces : Terrence Malick's "The Thin Red Line" in the Light of Levinas / Gilles Chamerois -- 16. Our War (BBC3) -- The war in Afghanistan as filmed by British soldiers : from capturing the real to building a narrative and a discourse / David Haigron -- 17. Diary as activism : the case of "The Diary of an unknown soldier" / Georges Fournier -- 18. Tunes of glory or jarring notes? Filming the Great War in music : "Oh! What a lovely war" (Richard Attenborough, 1969) and "War Requiem" (Derek Jarman, 1989) / Nicole Cloarec ; Part Four : "WITH DUE REVERENCE" : REMEMBERING the FORGOTTEN FIGHTERS : 19. Intergration politics and the New Zealand Army : the fate of the Maori Battalion in the wake of the Second World War / Corinne David-Ives -- 20. Remembering the Black Diggers : from "the Great Silence" to "Conspicuous commemoration"? / Elizabeth Rechniewski -- 21. The return of the native : remembering the circle in Joseph Boyden's "Three Day Road" / Loria-Anne Duech-Rainville.