War, Memory, and the Politics of Humor features carnage and cannibalism, gender and cross-dressing, drunks and heroes, m. English Pages Year The United States lost thousands of troops during World War I, and the government gave next-of-kin a choice about what t.
In the Cold War era, in most countries of. Posthumous Lives explores the shifting significance of public and private efforts to commemorate British soldiers killed. Maternal love is considered the most unconditional form of love, yet mothers have been prepared to sacrifice their child.
Modern military history, inspired by social and cultural historical approaches, increasingly puts the national histories.
Why does the Great War seem part of modern memory when its rituals of mourning and remembrance were traditional, romanti. Of interest to historians, classicists, media and digital theorists, literary scholars, museologists, and archivists, Me. Satire and Censorship 2. Verbal and Visual, Humor and Politics 3.
Unstuffing Skulls 4. Soldiers versus Profiteers 6. In Vino Veritas 7. Peace or Postwar 8. Web of Memory 9. Between Cannibalism and Resurrection Anti-Imperialism and Its Stereotypes Politics as Usual Canard Economics, or the Costs of the War The Wealth of Nations Conclusion Notes Index.
