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'Roger Hillman's essay adds a transnational dimension to representations of an historical event that has become the preeminent site of national memorialisation. In A Transnational Gallipoli?, Hillman contrasts the masculinist heroics and celebratory nationalism of Peter Weir's iconic film, Gallipoli, and Roger McDonald's 1915, with more recent novels and films produced outside Australia's borders that provide alternative forms of cultural memory. Louis de Bernières' Birds Without Wings and Tolga Örnek's documentary film Gallipoli: The Front Line Experience are significant as texts that 'situate the Gallipoli legend in a transnational rather than a national framework, while providing a fuller understanding of how cultural memory works in relation to the national imaginary'.' (Source: Editor's introduction)
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Without a uniform, it is impossible to tell the nationality of a soldier's frame, and many an unidentifiable, incomplete and anonymous heap of fractured bones ended up in co-interment with those of former enemies, near monuments speciously engraved with the sentiment that 'Their Name Liveth for Evermore'
-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings, Chapter 71
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A Transnational Gallipoli?
Australian Humanities Review
Subjects:
- Gallipoli 1981 single work film/TV
- 1915 : A Novel 1979 single work novel
- When Colts Ran 2010 single work novel
- Traitor 2010 single work novel
- Sunflower : A Tale of Love, War and Intrigue 2010 single work novel
- The Wing of Night 2005 single work novel
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