Trauma and the reinvigoration of Anzac
Trauma and the reinvigoration of Anzac
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创伤与安扎克的复兴
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2013
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C. Twomey
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C. Twomey
本文认为，从20世纪80年代开始出现的关于创伤和受害者身份的不断变化的观念，在当代澳新军团的复兴中发挥了重要而未得到充分认识的作用。从20世纪70年代起，战争作为恐怖和创伤的重塑在国际上变得突出，这表明对退伍军人产生了新的同情。在澳大利亚，这些发展与女权主义者对战争中强奸的抗议同时发生，这使士兵作为受害者的新叙述复杂化。澳新军团复兴的一个关键转折点出现在20世纪80年代，与女权主义抗议活动同时发生，当时男性退伍军人重申了他们在澳新军团游行中的象征中心地位，并声称自己是受害者。最终，战争的创伤影响，以及对受害者的同情，已经成为20世纪80年代后澳新军团化身的中心比喻。有人认为，这种同理心激发了对战争代价的肤浅理解。这篇文章已经过同行评审。
This article argues that changing ideas about trauma and victimhood, which emerged from the 1980s, played an important and insufficiently recognised role in the reinvigoration of Anzac for contemporary times. The recasting of war as horror and trauma that became prominent internationally from the 1970s is shown to have generated new sympathy for war veterans. In Australia, these developments occurred in parallel with feminist protests about rape in war, which complicated the emerging narrative of soldier as victim. A key turning point in the renewal of Anzac emerged in the 1980s, contemporaneous with feminist protests, when male veterans reasserted their symbolic centrality in the Anzac march and claimed victim status for themselves. Ultimately the traumatising effects of war, and sympathy for its victims, have become a central trope in the post-1980s incarnation of Anzac. It is suggested that the empathy this inspires offers a superficial understanding of war’s cost. This article has been peer-reviewed.