- 240 pages
- English
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The memory of catastrophe
About this book
Investigates the dynamic relationship between experiences of profound social and cultural disruption, and human memory. Critical comparisons are made across a wide variety of catastrophic experiences and memories; not just of war, but also of massacre, genocide, rebellion, famine, partition, shipwreck and fire. The book is an accessible showcase for a wide range of methodological approaches to the study of memory, including literary studies, cultural studies, participant-observation and historical studies, and uses a variety of oral, visual and written sources. Offers a diverse chronological and geographical range of catastrophic cases, from seventeenth-century England to the recent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, from Ireland to the Indian sub-continent, from Mexico to wartime Leningrad. Well-written and accessible – a fascinating read.
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Table of contents
- The memory of catastrophe
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction Peter Gray and Kendrick Oliver
- 2 Remembering the English Civil Wars Mark Stoyle
- 3 Diabolical design': the Charleston elite, the 1822 slave insurrection, and the discourse of the supernatural P.A. Cramer'
- 4 Memory and the commemoration of the Great Irish Famine Peter Gray
- 5 'The greatest and the worst': dominant and subaltern memories of the Dos Bocas well fire of 1908 Glen D. Kuecker
- 6 The Titanic and the commodification of catastrophe James Guimond
- 7 Doctors and trauma in the First World War: the response of British military psychiatrists Edgar Jones
- 8 Commemorations of the siege of Leningrad: a catastrophe in memory and myth Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
- 9 The missing camps of Aktion Reinhard: the judicial displacement of a mass murder Donald Bloxham
- 10 Memory and authenticity: the case of Binjamin Wilkomirski Andrea Reiter
- 11 Partition memory and multiple identities in the Champaran district of Bihar, India Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff
- 12 Bodies do count: American nurses mourn the catastrophe of Vietnam Carol Acton
- 13 'Not much of a place anymore': the reception and memory of the massacre at My Lai Kendrick Oliver
- 14 Remembering Vukovar, forgetting Vukovar: constructing national identity through the memory of catastrophe in Croatia Rose Lindsey
- 15 Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Sawoniuk? British memory of the Holocaust and Kosovo, spring 1999 Tony Kushner
- Index