Postnational Memory, Peace and War: Making Pasts Beyond Borders

by Nigel Young

Book Overview

This book examines the phenomenon of modern memory as a reaction to total war, an aspiration to truth-seeking provoked by the independent forces of modern war and collective violence which is transnational, or postnational, in character. Using examples from prose and poetry, film and theatre, painting and photography, and music and the popular arts, the author traces a narrative path through the events of the twentieth century, defining the tradition...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367110970
• ISBN13: 9780367110970
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"