Table of contents

1. Preface
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents
4. Contributors
5. List of Figures
6. Three Narratives of Civil War: Recurrence, Remembrance and Reform from Sulla to Syria
7. Part I Narrative Through Testimonies
8. Telling Stories, Making Selves: Nostalgia, the Lost Cause, and Postbellum Plantation Memoirs and Reminiscences
9. Letter to Oneself: Acknowledging Guilt in Post-War Lebanon
10. “Irish History Unidealised”: The Politics of Republican Memoir and Narratives of the Defeated and Defiant
11. Struggling with Memory: Oral History and Reconciliation in Belfast Communities
12. Narrative-Making and Recording Trauma: Reflections from Northern Ireland
13. Part II Narrative Through the Arts
14. The Truth of Fiction: Some Stories of the Lebanese Civil Wars
15. Civil Wars and Cinematic Narrative: The Case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009)
16. Conflict and Theatre Translation: A Narrative Analysis of Sa:kki (1987)
17. Part III Narrative and Agency
18. Revivifying and Reconciling the State: Peace-Making and Narrative Hegemony in Post-Civil-War England, 1646–1647
19. Civil-War Stories in Lands of Commanded Forgetting: Restoration England and Late Twentieth-Century El Salvador
20. The Syrian War: Irreconcilable Narratives
21. Oblivion or History: Two Different Ways of Coming Out of War Ninon Grangé
22. References
23. Index