The Railway Men
Prisoner Journeys through the Traumascapes of World War II
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12914637 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Scates (0000-0002-4411-542X, corresponding author), Catherine Tiernan, Rebecca Wheatley |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 206-222 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of War and Culture Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1752-6272 • E-ISSN: 1752-6280 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/1752627214z.00000000044 |
| OpenAlex | W1964735865 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
Over 15,000 Australians were taken prisoner by the Japanese duringWorldWar II and around one-third of those men and women died in captivity. The forced labour and incarceration of prisoner of war is considered by many as one of Australia's greatest tragedies of World War II. This article argues that the story of incarceration did not end with those who actually experienced it. These wounding memories were passed down through families and communities; they were recycled and reimagined through the circulation of narratives, the making of memorials, and the constant renegotiation of life stories. Capturing the memory of this experience obliges historians to record the living testimony of both prisoners and their families. Interviews, surveys, and participant observation conducted by the author are utilized to explore the afterlife of memory during a pilgrimage to the traumascapes of World War II
Afterlife · Ancient history · Art · First world war · Life writing · Literature · Narrative · Pilgrimage · Prisoners of war · Sociology · World War II · Australian History and Society · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
Tense Past
Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning
Worrying about Emotions in History
A shared authority
Memory and Methodology
War Memory and the Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore
Surviving Images
Envelopes of Sound
Trauma and the reinvigoration of Anzac
It was really moving, mate’
Commemorating War
Remembering Dead Places
JFK and dark tourism
Trauma and Literary Theory
America, the Holocaust, and the Mass Culture of Memory
On the Emergence of Memory in Historical Discourse
Transformations between History and Memory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |