1st Edition
Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary Making Melancholia
By Meghan Tinsley
Copyright 2022
194 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
194 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
194 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Commemorating Muslims in the First World War Centenary engages with the explosion of public commemorations in Britain and France in the wake of the First World War centenary, alongside the hyper-visibility of British and French Muslims in political and popular discourse. Bringing these two phenomena together, it draws on national commemorations of the First World War centenary in Britain and... Read more
Introduction
1. "I Have No Respect for the Silence": Situating Memories of the First World War
2. "A Commemoration That Captures Our National Spirit": Narratives of Nationalism and Memory
3. "They Targeted a Symbol of the Republic": Transgressing National Memory, Unsettling the Nation
4. "A Desire to See the War in a New Way": Explaining the Emergence of Melancholic Sites
5. "Before the World Falls into Disorder": National Memory in Unsettled Times
Conclusion
Epilogue
Biography
Meghan Tinsley is Presidential Fellow in Ethnicity and Inequalities in the Department of Sociology at The University of Manchester, UK.
