Overview

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.

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Author:   Susannah Radstone ,  Susannah Radstone (University of East London, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781412804882

ISBN 10:   1412804884
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   31 October 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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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Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone teach in the School of Cultural and Innovation Studies at the University of East London.

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