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Author: Nigel Young (Colgate University, USA)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.660kg
ISBN: 9780367110963
ISBN 10: 0367110962
Pages: 364
Publication Date: 04 December 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Nigel Young's rich tapestry of words, images and reflections leads us to understand how the total wars of the 20th century have shaped and changed our modern sense of memory. He shows how the shattering experiences of two world wars - and of the genocides, annihilations, crimes against humanity and the first use of nuclear weapons which accompanied them - have been dealt with in different ways. Some memories have been suppressed, some have emerged from long silence, and many have been variously interpreted and re-interpreted over the decades. They have also generated powerful art (vividly illustrated here), journalism and literature. Memory has moved from the private to the public sphere, developing new transnational forms to challenge the orthodoxies of nationalism and hegemonism. This is a book which invites us to revisit both the past and the present with searching questions about the impact of war on modern human consciousness. - John Gittings, author of The Glorious Art of Peace: Paths to Peace in a New Age of War. Nigel Young's challenging and interesting book draws on his wisdom and deep experience. It's very much a work of personal witness, most notably in the book's numerous vignettes and examples. These explore not only war poetry, literature, museums, memorials, paintings, musical requiems and so forth; but also more popular arts, like wall murals, songs, journalism and popular theatre, novels and films. - Robin Luckham, University of Sussex, UK.
Nigel Young's rich tapestry of words, images and reflections leads us to understand how the total wars of the 20th century have shaped and changed our modern sense of memory. He shows how the shattering experiences of two world wars - and of the genocides, annihilations, crimes against humanity and the first use of nuclear weapons which accompanied them - have been dealt with in different ways. Some memories have been suppressed, some have emerged from long silence, and many have been variously interpreted and re-interpreted over the decades. They have also generated powerful art (vividly illustrated here), journalism and literature. Memory has moved from the private to the public sphere, developing new transnational forms to challenge the orthodoxies of nationalism and hegemonism. This is a book which invites us to revisit both the past and the present with searching questions about the impact of war on modern human consciousness. - John Gittings, author of The Glorious Art of Peace: Paths to Peace in a New Age of War. Nigel Young's challenging and interesting book draws on his wisdom and deep experience. It's very much a work of personal witness, most notably in the book's numerous vignettes and examples. These explore not only war poetry, literature, museums, memorials, paintings, musical requiems and so forth; but also more popular arts, like wall murals, songs, journalism and popular theatre, novels and films. - Robin Luckham, University of Sussex, UK. Memory is now a specialised field of its own and the author has spent much of his career deeply engaged in it, especially as it relates to modern war, genocide and mass violence - including nuclear weapons. Drawing on a huge range of examples from prose, poetry, film and theatre, painting, photography, music and the popular arts, he traces a narrative path through the tragic events of the 20th century. In this way, Young sketches out a history of modern remembering and explores the formation of a 'transnational' (or 'postnational') historical awareness, as an alternative to purely national narratives and imperial, militarist or ethnocentric histories. He takes us to 'sacred' sites (Auschwitz, Hiroshima and many more) and intersperses the more theoretical passages with telling personal 'vignettes'. This remarkable work is intense and deeply felt; not always an easy read, but one that repays the effort. - Colin Archer, MAW (The Movement for the Abolition of War) newsletter
Author Information
Nigel Young is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Research Professor in Peace Studies at Colgate University, USA. He is the editor in chief of the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace and co-editor of Campaigns for Peace: The British Peace Movement in the 20th Century. He is the author of Nation State and War Resistance, On War, National Liberation and The State, and An Infantile Disorder? The Crisis and Decline of the New Left, and the co-author of Pacifism in the 20th Century.
