- Tytuł:
- The Union War histories and the battle for the history of the Second World War in South Africa
- Autorzy:
- Van der Waag, Ian
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1833756.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2021
- Wydawca:
- Towarzystwo Wiedzy Obronnej
- Tematy:
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historiography
war literature
official history
soldier
narrative
memory
historiografia
literatura wojenna
historia
żołnierz
narracja
pamięć - Opis:
- Military History has three primary audiences: the general public, academe, and the armed forces – each has its own beliefs regarding the purpose and utility of the military past. Recognising the value of a war history for South Africa, Jan Smuts created the Union War Histories section in 1941. Yet the men appointed to write this history realised that they would never be able to satisfy all three competing readerships. This paper examines the research production of the Union War Histories section as well as the official and public response to their work, which is placed within a wider historiographical process. The notion of a historiographical progression – of an intersecting chain of counter narratives – is posited: accounts by journalists, official historians, personal narrators and regimental historians, leading to a post-participant historiography. This is a progression that seems to hold true for South Africa’s other wars, and indeed the wars of other countries.
- Źródło:
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Wiedza Obronna; 2021, 1; 9--33
0209-0031
2658-0829 - Pojawia się w:
- Wiedza Obronna
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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