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Book

Reinventing World War II : popular memory in the rise of the ethnonationalist state

Call Number

  • 940.5373 B589 (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2024]

Physical Description

xii, 164 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Summary

"Explores how World War II was retooled in popular culture starting in the mid-1980s to redress a crisis in American identity and restore social equilibrium"--

Contents

  • The Enola Gay controversy : the politics of experience and truth telling at the turn of the twenty-first century
  • Popular memory and civic belonging at the end of the American century
  • Remembering the "good war"/refiguring democracy : ethico-political resubjectivation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • The culture and history of wars of the twenty-first century, or, can you be white and look at this?.

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