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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Crownshaw; Jane Kilby; Antony Rowland |
| ISBN: | 9781845456931 1845456939 |
| OCLC Number: | 502029688 |
| Description: | xiii, 319 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The future of memory : introduction / Rick Crownshaw -- Beyond the Mnemosyne Institute : the future of memory after the age of commemoration / Dan Stone -- Rwanda's bones / Sara Guyer -- The Imperial War Museum North : a twenty-first century museum? / Gaynor Bagnall and Antony Rowland -- Memory and the monument after 9/11 / James E. Young -- The edge of memory : literary innovation and childhood trauma / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- The future of testimony : introduction / Antony Rowland -- Reading perpetrator testimony / Robert Eaglestone -- Reading beyond the false memory syndrome debates / Jane Kilby -- False testimony / Sue Vice -- Reading Holocaust poetry : genre, authority and identification / Matthew Boswell -- The future of trauma : introduction / Jane Kilby -- The trauma knot / Roger Luckhurst -- Trauma, justice, and the political unconscious : Arendt and Felman's journey to Jerusalem / Cathy Caruth -- Trauma and resistance in Art Spiegelman's In the shadow of no towers / Anne Whitehead -- Facing losses/losing guarantees : a meditation on openings to traumatic ignorance as a constitutive demand / Sharon Rosenberg -- Activist memories : the politics of trauma and the pleasures of politics / Carrie Hamilton. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Richard Crownshaw, Jane Kilby and Antony Rowland. |
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This is an innovative, well structured and balanced collection of essays which presents a survey of theories and case studies underpinning the burgeoning field of memory studies. It addresses the 'big issues' including witnessing, trauma, memorials, the relation between personal and public memory, and generational transmission.A" * Peter Carrier, author of HOLOCAUST MONUMENTS AND NATIONAL MEMORY This is an excellent collection of essays.A" * Peter Lawson, Open University, London Read more...
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