Memory, History, Nation

Contested Pasts
Herausgeber: Radstone, Susannah

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Produktbeschreibung

As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority, and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective, and local.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781138527928
• ISBN-10: 1138527920
• Artikelnr.: 50495082

Autorenporträt

Susannah Radstone

Inhaltsangabe

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