The Memory of Catastrophe -

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Résumé :
List of Contributors 1. Introduction - Peter Gray and Kendrick Oliver 2. Remembering the English Civil War - Mark Stoyle 3. 'Diabolical design': Charleston elites, 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 World War One: 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...

Biographie:
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....

Sommaire:
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...