Trauma and the reinvigoration of Anzac

Twomey, Christina

doi:10.1080/14490854.2013.11668482

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“…According to Christina Twomey, by the 1980s, "the suffering of soldiers in war and the potential for them to be traumatised by it became a central trope in the public discussion of Anzac". 27 Historians and political scientists, including Carolyn Holbrook, have also examined the emergence of politicians as "commemorators-in-chief" since the 1990s and their use of Anzac commemoration to promote, in the Australian context, various forms of nationalism. 28 Others have examined the social and political fragmentation caused by globalisation, arguing that it has required the state to examine new means of binding state and citizen and that "remembrance and commemoration play a part in this renewal of national narratives".…”

Section: Rituals and Practices Of Anzacmentioning

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Representing War: Cultural Histories of the First World War in Australia and New Zealand, 2013–2020

Holbrook

Hutchison

2020

Journal of Australian Studies

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The centenary of the First World War (2014-2019) expanded and reinvigorated the historiography of this conflict. In particular, the war's cultural legacy generated an outpouring of publications between 2013 and 2020 that re-evaluated its traditional cultural representations and explored fresh avenues of inquiry through analysing contemporary interpretations of the conflict in films, books and television series. In this way, the centenary afforded historians the chance to engage in a broad conversation about the significance of the cultural history and, notably, memory of the war in an unprecedented way. This article explores the development of recent scholarship on representations of the First World War in Australia and New Zealand, exploring how this body of work not only refreshed the field but also shaped and extended understandings of the war's commemorative and cultural legacy.

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Section: Rituals and Practices Of Anzacmentioning

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Representing War: Cultural Histories of the First World War in Australia and New Zealand, 2013–2020

Holbrook

Hutchison

2020

Journal of Australian Studies

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“…Cultural historians tell us that trauma is a social construct, and that 'horrible histories' of the war are animated not just by the scale and violence of the conflict but by a contemporary fixation with disaster. 7 Some lament the way that trauma histories pass over other emotions in war, such as patriotism, while others argue that the First World War counts for too much in debates about national self-definition, and that the Australian public's obsession with the world wars leave other areas of the country's past in the shadows. 8 The approach I take here owes much to trauma theory, but at the same time seeks to broaden the study of 'aftermath' from the returned soldier and his circle to the urban, rural and domestic histories of peacetime Australia.…”

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The Bush, the Suburbs and the Long Great War: a Family Memoir

Roper

2018

History Workshop Journal

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“…In contemporary cultural discourse, the meaning of Anzac Day is typically unified and uncontested and is habitually referred to as a ‘sacred’ day across media, political and commemorative services (Henry, 2006; Seal, 2007). However, this has not always been the case, and at one period the print media suggested it was condemned to be a day that would eventually dissolve due to lack of public support (Twomey, 2013). In exploring print media portrayals of Anzac Day in Australia in 1965, ambivalence, meaninglessness and malaise were common emotional repertoires which emerged around the period of the Vietnam war.…”

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Imagining an emotional nation: the print media and Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand

McConville¹,

McCreanor²,

Wetherell

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Media, Culture & Society

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This article explores affect, discourse and emotion in national life. Drawing on recent thinking on discourse and affect, alongside previous work on nation and communities of practice, we focus on the print media’s use of Anzac Day in Aotearoa New Zealand, as a site through which settler identity and cultural hegemony are reproduced. One hegemonic interpretive repertoire is observed throughout, that Anzac Day is a sacred day of respectful remembrance. Within this frame, a series of associated affective-discursive positions are deployed covering issues that range from inclusion and exclusion, to conformity and dissent. We argue that this repertoire and its associated positions constitute citizens engaging with the day as a homogeneous group of national subjects, bound together as a particular kind of affected community. This imagined community and the affective practices attributed to it, however, largely ignore the bicultural makeup of Aotearoa New Zealand, narrowing down the diverse range of potential emotional positions to a just a few. Popular journalism fails readers and limits debate though its thin portrayals of community, legitimate affect and engaged citizenship. National life is impoverished when print media lack the cultural competence necessary to effectively engage in broader debates and political discourse.

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Trauma and the reinvigoration of Anzac

Cited by 102 publications

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Representing War: Cultural Histories of the First World War in Australia and New Zealand, 2013–2020

Representing War: Cultural Histories of the First World War in Australia and New Zealand, 2013–2020

The Bush, the Suburbs and the Long Great War: a Family Memoir

Imagining an emotional nation: the print media and Anzac Day commemorations in Aotearoa New Zealand

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