Memory and the Wars on Terror

Jessica Gildersleeve is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and a graduate of the University of Bristol.Richard Gehrmann is Senior Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, and a graduate of the University of Cambridge.

“The authors shed light on the old/dormant discourses created during the Cold War, and their relationship with the War on Terror, but also present voices illuminating perspectives … This book seeks to articulate these other perspectives, and to explain how the past interrogates the present in contexts of uncertainty and fear. As such it is a must-read project for those with an interest in the role of memory in war and terrorism.” (Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje,International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, Vol. 09 (1), January - March, 2019)

• 1. Memory and the Wars on Terror; Jessica Gildersleeve and Richard Gehrmann.- 2. False Memories and Professional Culture: The Australian Defence Force, the Government and the Media at War in Afghanistan; Kevin Foster.- 3. The Limitations of Memory and the Language of the War on Terror in Australia, 2001-2003; Amanda Laugesen.- 4. Enemies of the State(s): Cultural Memory, Cinema, and the Iraq War; Richard Gehrmann.- 5. Remembering the Warriors: Cultural Memory, the Female Hero and the ‘Logistics of Perception’ in Zero Dark Thirty; Christa van Raalte.- 6. Remembering the First World War after 9/11: Pat Barker’s Life Class and Toby’s Room; Jessica Gildersleeve.- 7. Novel Wars: David Malouf and the Invention of the Iliad; Kezia Whiting.- 8. In Extremis: Apocalyptic Imaginings in Janette Turner Hospital’s post-9/11 Novels; Belinda McKay.- 9. ‘Shock and Awe’: The Memory of Trauma in post-9/11 Artworks; Denise N. Rall.- 10. Bearing Witness to Injustice: Latin America, Refugees and Memorialisation in Australia; Robert Mason.- 11. A Sense of Embattlement: Australian Jewish Communal Leadership’s Response to 9/11; Dashiel Lawrence.- 12. Violent Femmes: Collective Memory after 9/11 and Women on the Front Line of Journalism; Rebecca Te’o.- 13. Death and the Maiden: Memorialisation, Scandal, and the Gendered Mediation of Australian Soldiers; Jessica Carniel.- 14. Reflecting on the Wars on Terror;Frank Bongiorno.