Description |
1 online resource (xii, 319 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary |
Memory studies has become a rapidly growing area of scholarly as well as public interest. This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in this new academic field. It embraces work on diverse but interconnected phenomena, such as twenty-first century museums, shocking memorials in present-day Rwanda and the firsthand testimony of the victims of genocidal conflicts. The collection engages with pressing 'real world' issues, such as the furor around the recent 9/11 memorial, and what we really mean when we talk about 'trauma'. Richard Crownshaw is a Lecturer in. |
Contents |
Part I. THE FUTURE OF MEMORY; The Future of Memory: Introduction; Chapter 1: Beyond the Mnemosyne Institute: The Future of Memory after the Age of Commemoration; Chapter 2: Rwanda's Bones; Chapter 3: The Imperial War Museum North: A Twenty-First Century Museum?; Chapter 4: Memory and the Monument after 9/11; Chapter 5: The Edge of Memory: Literary Innovation and Childhood Trauma; Part II. THE FUTURE OF TESTIMONY; The Future of Testimony: Introduction; Chapter 6: Reading Perpetrator Testimony; Chapter 7: Reading beyond the False Memory Syndrome Debates; Chapter 8: False Testimony |
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Chapter 9: Reading Holocaust Poetry: Genre, Authority and Identification; Part III. THE FUTURE OF TRAUMA; The Future of Trauma: Introduction; Chapter 10: The Trauma Knot; Chapter 11: Trauma, Justice, and the Political Unconscious: Arendt and Felman's Journey to Jerusalem; Chapter 12: Trauma and Resistance in Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers; Chapter 13: Facing Losses/Losing Guarantees: A Meditation on Openings to Traumatic Ignorance as a Constitutive Demand; Chapter 14: Activist Memories: The Politics of Trauma and the Pleasures of Politics; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index. |
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Subject |
Collective memory -- Political aspects.
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Memorialization -- Social aspects.
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War memorials -- Social aspects.
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Terrorism -- Social aspects.
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Political violence -- Social aspects.
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Genocide -- Social aspects.
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War and society.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Terrorism -- Social aspects |
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War and society |
Added Author |
Crownshaw, Richard, editor.
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Kilby, Jane, editor.
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Rowland, Antony, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Future of memory. New York : Berghahn Books, 2010 9781845456931 (DLC) 2010019552 (OCoLC)502029688 |
ISBN |
9781845458478 electronic book |
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1845458478 electronic book |
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9781845456931 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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1845456939 |
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