The chapters in Memory, History, Nation, written by international scholars, offer a complex awareness of the workings of memory, and the ways in which different or changing histories may be explained. They explore the relation between individual and social memory, between real and imaginary, event and fantasy, history and myth. Contradictory accounts, or memories in direct contradiction to the historical record are not always the sign of a repressive authority attempting to cover something up. The tension between memory as a safeguard against attempts to silence dissenting voices, and memorys own implication in that silencing, runs throughout the book.…mehr
The chapters in Memory, History, Nation, written by international scholars, offer a complex awareness of the workings of memory, and the ways in which different or changing histories may be explained. They explore the relation between individual and social memory, between real and imaginary, event and fantasy, history and myth. Contradictory accounts, or memories in direct contradiction to the historical record are not always the sign of a repressive authority attempting to cover something up. The tension between memory as a safeguard against attempts to silence dissenting voices, and memorys own implication in that silencing, runs throughout the book.
List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: Contested pasts Part I: Transforming memory 1 The massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine: history myth ritual and symbol 2. Memories and histories public and private: after the Finnish Civil War 3. War history and the education of (Canadian) memory 4. 'We would never have come without you': generations of nostalgia Part II: Remembering suffering: trauma and history 5. The traumatic paradox: autobiographical documentary and the psychology of memory 6. Memories of violence in interviews with Basque nationalist women 7. Sale of the century? Memory and historical consciousness in Australia 8. 'Brothers and sisters do not be afraid of me': trauma history and the therapeutic imagination in the new South Africa Part III: Patterning the national past 9. Nationalism and memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes Phnom Penh Cambodia 10. The death of socialism and the afterlife of its monuments: making and marketing the past i n Budapest's Statue Park Museum 11. From contested to consensual memory: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 12. 'Dead Man': film colonialism and memory Part IV. And then silence... 13. Memories between silence and oblivion Index
List of illustrations Notes on contributors Preface and acknowledgements Introduction: Contested pasts Part I: Transforming memory 1 The massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine: history myth ritual and symbol 2. Memories and histories public and private: after the Finnish Civil War 3. War history and the education of (Canadian) memory 4. 'We would never have come without you': generations of nostalgia Part II: Remembering suffering: trauma and history 5. The traumatic paradox: autobiographical documentary and the psychology of memory 6. Memories of violence in interviews with Basque nationalist women 7. Sale of the century? Memory and historical consciousness in Australia 8. 'Brothers and sisters do not be afraid of me': trauma history and the therapeutic imagination in the new South Africa Part III: Patterning the national past 9. Nationalism and memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes Phnom Penh Cambodia 10. The death of socialism and the afterlife of its monuments: making and marketing the past i n Budapest's Statue Park Museum 11. From contested to consensual memory: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum 12. 'Dead Man': film colonialism and memory Part IV. And then silence... 13. Memories between silence and oblivion Index
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