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'A lasting gift to his descendants” : family memory and the great war in Australia
This article examines the processes of remembering and transmitting experiences of the Great War within families of Australian veterans now passed on. It focuses on a recent boom in private publishing of ancestors’ personal letters and diaries and argues that these practices continue to reimagine and reshape family memories of the war. In so doing it exposes the range of family members implicated in family remembrance then and now, and so complicates any process by which a war almost beyond living memory is to become entirely understood by its public myths and representations.
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History and memoryVolume
22Issue
2Season
Fall / WinterPagination
125 - 146Publisher
Indiana University PressLocation
Bloomington, Ind.ISSN
0935-560XeISSN
1527-1994Language
engPublication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2010, Indiana University PressUsage metrics
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