A “Monument to the American and Filipino Alliance for Freedom”

The Pacific War Memorial and Second World War Remembrance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21341237
AutoresKIMBERLEY LUSTINA WEIR (0000-0003-4372-7042, University of Nottingham, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen55
Número1
Páginas75-101
Fecha de publicación2021-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8758 • E-ISSN: 1469-5154
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0021875820000675
OpenAlexW3036781103
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas9

The Pacific War Memorial on Corregidor Island in the Philippines was erected by the United States government to commemorate Filipino and American soldiers who had lost their lives during the Second World War. Inaugurated in 1968, it was the first American memorial on Philippine soil since the United States had recognized the Philippines as an independent country in 1946, following almost fifty years of colonial rule. This article interprets the monument and the wider Corregidor memoryscape. It examines how the United States, the Philippines and the Second World War are depicted both within and around the memorial and what this suggests about the creation and persistence of colonial memory. The article explores the tensions between colonial and decolonized remembrance, and the extent to which the Pacific War Memorial serves as a historical marker for the United States’ achievements in the Philippines

Alliance · Ancient history · Colonial rule · Colonialism · Economic history · First world war · Government (linguistics) · Political science · Spanish Civil War · Vietnam War · World War II · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies