Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific (eBook, PDF)

Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse
Redaktion: Laugesen, Amanda; Fisher, Catherine

• Format: PDF

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030238902
• Artikelnr.: 57883427

Autorenporträt

Amanda Laugesen is Director of the Australian National Dictionary Centre at the Australian National University. She is the author of a number of books, including Furphies and Whizz-bangs: Anzac Slang from the Great War (2015) and Taking Books to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War (2017). Catherine Fisher is a Visiting Fellow in the School of History at the Australian National University. Her research examines the history of Australian women's broadcasting. Her work has been published in Women's History Review, Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge, and Lilith: A Feminist History Journal.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction: Expression of war in Australia and the Pacific: Language, trauma, memory, and official discourse (Amanda Laugesen and Catherine Fisher).- Chapter 2: Losing people: A linguistic analysis of minimisation in First World War soldiers' accounts of violence (Cara Penry Williams and John Rice-Whetton).- Chapter 3: Portraying the enemy: Humour in French and Australian trench journals (Véronique Duché).- Chapter 4: Mnemosyne and Athena: Mary Booth, Anzac, and the language of remembrance in the First World War and after (Bridget Brooklyn).- Chapter 5: Jacques Rancière and the politics of war literature: Poetry and trauma in Edmund Blunden's Undertones of War (1928) (Neil Ramsey).- Chapter 6: Voicing the war effort: Australian women's broadcasts during the Second World War (Catherine Fisher).- Chapter 7: Re-visioning Australia's Second World War: Race hatred, strategic marginalisation, and the visual language of the South West Pacific Campaign (Kevin Foster).- Chapter 8: 'No written word can express the sympathy of a spoken word': Casualty telegrams after the Battle for Bardia, 1941 (John Moremon).- Chapter 9: The PTS communication framework: analysing the discourse within the Australian Army News (Lisa Ranson and Leanne Glenny).- Chapter 10: 'Testament of youth': Young Australians' responses to Anzac (Rebecca Wheatley).- Chapter 11: Conclusion: Languages of War (Amanda Laugesen and Catherine Fisher).