Bigger than Gallipoli
Subtitle: war, history, and memory in Australia
By: Liz Reed.
Publisher: University of Western Australia Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Crawley, W.A
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia -- Anniversaries, etc.; Nationalism -- Australia.; Australia -- Civilization -- 20th century.; Australia -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Description: "'Bigger than Gallipoli' provides an indepth analysis of the ways in which Australia remembers the Second World War, focusing on the yearlong commemorative program 'Australia Remembers' throughout 1995 all over Australia, involving small towns, local organisations and official national events. For many of the Second World War generation this was the recognition for which they had been yearning. Liz Reed expertly analyses how the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the war's end represented 'remembrance' visually, in text and in spectacle. Comparisons are drawn with similar events held in Canada and New Zealand / Aotearoa. 'Bigger than Gallipoli's' key themes of nostalgia, memory and commemoration are linked to explorations of how Australia as a nation seeks to reconstruct its identity, and the extent to which 'Australia Remembers' expressed new ways of representing previously ignored groups such as Australian Indigenous people and women."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-199) and index.