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    Forgetting the wars: Australian war memorials and amnesia

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    Authors
    Stephens, John
    Date
    2014
    Type
    Book Chapter
    
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    Stephens, J. 2014. Forgetting the wars: Australian war memorials and amnesia, in Oliver, B. and Summers, S. (ed), Lest We Forget?: Marginalised aspects of Australia at war and peace, pp. 159-182. Perth, WA: Black Swan Press.
    Source Title
    Lest We Forget? Marginalised aspects of Australia at war and peace
    ISBN
    9780987567031
    School
    Department of Architecture & Interior Architecture
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    Copyright © 2014 - John Stephens

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41047
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    While recent studies have revealed that the rate of memorials appears to be increasing in tandem with the memory boom, this chapter examines the role of forgetfulness in Australian war memorials—notably, the manner in which memorials, and their designs, are active participants in the role of forgetting and in ‘masking’ aspects of war and war memory. Traditional figurative memorials portray the digger as the ideal figure of the classical hero or a type of noble innocent and, in doing so, they preserve mythologies while masking the slaughter of the battlefield and the effects and cost of war to participants and survivors. It is the complex and fluid nature of remembrance and forgetting that is at the heart of this chapter.

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