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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wood, Nancy. Vectors of memory. Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1999 (OCoLC)606505633 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Nancy Wood |
ISBN: | 1859732941 1859732895 9781859732892 9781859732946 |
OCLC Number: | 41661695 |
Description: | vii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Memory's remains: Les lieux de mémoire -- Public memory and postconventional identity -- The victim's resentment -- Narrating perpetrator testimony -- Memory on trial in contemporary France -- Colonial nostalgia and Le premier homme -- Remembering the Jews of Algeria -- Memory by analogy: Hiroshima, mon amour. |
Responsibility: | Nancy Wood. |
Abstract:
Due to the spate of anniversaries of such events as the Holocaust, the topic of memory has shot to prominence in the 1990s. This text uses the concept of "vectors" of memory to designate the conduits of that memorial activity, and examines a range of vectors that have focused public attention.
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'A rich scholarly study, efficiently footnoted, accompanied by four appropriate illustrations, and well indexed.' Choice'The essays are often interesting, notably in her comparison of the historiographical methods of the historians of the Jewish massacres, Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen, in relation to the reception of their works and her essay on the role of memory in retributive justice meted out in French trials.'TLS'A significant insight into the dilemmas and contradictions of coming to terms with an unbearable past.'American Historical Review Read more...
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