D-Day Remembered

Michael R. Dolski's D-Day Remembered examines the varied uses and interpretations of D-Day and how that historical event has been deployed within American cultural, political, and military contexts from 1944 to the present. Dolski's work can be located in the specific and complex tradition of collective memory studies. In Dolski's note on method and sources, introduction, and conclusion, he examines that territory, with plenty of acknowledgement concerning the conflicting methodologies that make this field so fascinating. Indeed, it seems fitting that there is no single “collective” approach to the study of collective memory. These portions of Dolski's study are as interesting as the main narrative. The questions surrounding the examination of such a thing as “popular,” “national,” or “collective” memory are numerous, and with each work that grapples with just how to proceed, the field becomes richer still. As Dolski states at the outset, his work does not focus on D-Day per se. His investigation centers on “the presence of D-Day in American memory” and evaluates “the means, methods, and meanings implicit in the collective remembrance of this battle” (p. 3). In his effort to track the “dominant themes and uses of D-Day,” he relies on a variety of forms of representation, from films and books to commemorations and political rhetoric (p. 215

Acknowledgement · Archaeology · Art · Battle · Collective memory · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Politics of memory · Representation (politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy

• Crises of commemoration

  Open Access•Andrew W M Smith•French History•2021

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