Memorialising Gallipoli: Manufacturing Memory at Anzac
The memorials of Gallipoli have not lost their power to move, confront and often even inspire their visitors. Their meanings are re-visited, even re-invented by each successive generation of Anzac pilgrim and, contrary to the simplistic mono-dimensional readings of some historians, the Peninsula’s c...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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UTS ePRESS
2008-08-01
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| Series: | Public History Review |
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| Online Access: | https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/phrj/article/view/820 |
| Summary: | The memorials of Gallipoli have not lost their power to move, confront and often even inspire their visitors. Their meanings are re-visited, even re-invented by each successive generation of Anzac pilgrim and, contrary to the simplistic mono-dimensional readings of some historians, the Peninsula’s commemorative landscape remains a site of fierce contestation. Pacifist and patriot, back packer and bereaved all interpret it differently. Moreover, the memorials of Gallipoli continue to alert us to different cultures of commemoration; Christian, secular and Islamic, Turkish, British, French and Australian. |
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| ISSN: | 1833-4989 |