BOOKS - Remembering the South African War
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Remembering the South African War
Author: Peter Donaldson
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 4.1 MB
Language: English
Year: 2013
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 4.1 MB
Language: English
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library The experience of the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a number of reasons An increasingly literate public a burgeoning populist press an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and to contemporaries at least a shockingly high death toll embedded the war firmly in the national consciousness In addition with the fallen buried far from home those left behind required other forms of commemoration For these reasons the South African War was an important moment of transition in commemorative practice and foreshadowed the rituals of remembrance that engulfed Britain in the aftermath of the Great War This work provides the first comprehensive survey of the memorialisation process in Britain in the aftermath of the South African War The approach goes beyond the simple deconstruction of memorial iconography and instead looks at the often tortuous and lengthy gestation of remembrance sites from the formation of committees to the raising of finance and debates over form In the process both Edwardian Britain s sense of self and the contested memory of the conflict in South Africa are thrown into relief In the concluding sections of the book the focus falls on other forms of remembrance sites namely the multi volume histories produced by the War Office and The Times and the seminal television documentaries of Kenneth Griffith Once again the approach goes beyond simple textual deconstruction to place the sources firmly in their wider context by exploring both production and reception By uncovering the themes and myths that underpinned these interpretations of the war shifting patterns in how the war was represented and conceived are revealed
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