Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific

Chapter 1 Introduction: Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific—Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse

Chapter 2 Losing People: A Linguistic Analysis of Minimisation in First World War Soldiers’ Accounts of Violence

Chapter 3 Portraying the Enemy: Humour in French and Australian Trench Journals

Chapter 4 Mnemosyne and Athena: Mary Booth, Anzac, and the Language of Remembrance in the First World War and After

Chapter 5 Jacques Rancière and the Politics of War Literature: Poetry and Trauma in Edmund Blunden’s Undertones of War (1928)

Chapter 6 Voicing the War Effort: Australian Women’s Broadcasts During the Second World War

Chapter 7 Re-visioning Australia’s Second World War: Race Hatred, Strategic Marginalisation, and the Visual Language of the South West Pacific Campaign

Chapter 8 ‘No written word can express the sympathy of a spoken word’: Casualty Telegrams After the Battle for Bardia, 1941

Chapter 9 The Post-Traumatic Stress Communication Framework: Analysing the Discourse Within the Australian Army News

Chapter 10 ‘Testament of Youth’: Young Australians’ Responses to Anzac