Contested pasts the politics of memory

This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory.In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the huma...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hodgkin, Katharine, 1961- (-), Radstone, Susannah
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge 2003.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; CONTESTED PASTS; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Contested pasts; Part I Transforming memory; INTRODUCTION; 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; INTRODUCTION
  • 5 The traumatic paradox: autobiographical documentary and the psychology of memory6 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; INTRODUCTION; 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 in Budapest's Statue Park Museum11 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...; INTRODUCTION; 13 Memories between silence and oblivion; Index