Disturbing remains : memory, history, and crisis in the twentieth century / edited by Michael S. Roth and Charles G. Salas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roth, Michael S., 1957-

Salas, Charles G.

Series:

Issues & debates

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Totalitarianism--History--20th century.

Totalitarianism.

Genocide--History--20th century.

Genocide.

Crimes against humanity--History--20th century.

Crimes against humanity.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 300 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, 2001.

Summary:

This series explores open questions at the intersection of art history and the humanities.

Ten scholars focus on the remembrance and representation of traumatic historical events in the twentieth century.

Contents:

Part I. Narrative and History

Robert Ouko's Pain: The Negotiation of a "State of Mind" / David William Cohen 17

Crisis and Representation: Rumor and the Circulation of Hate / Veena Das 37

Among the Dead / Philip Gourevitch 63

Part II. Objects and Memory

Lenin in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction / Leah Dickerman 77

The Sword and the Lightbulb: A Reading of Guernica / Carlo Ginzburg 111

Cosmology, Crisis, and Paradox: On the White Spirit in the Kuna Shamanistic Tradition / Carlo Severi 178

Male Ancestors and Female Deities: Finding Memories of Trauma in a Chinese Village / Jun Jing 207

Part III. Memory and History

Covering History / Istvan Rev 231

Holocaust Memory and Identity Building: Metahistorical Considerations in the Case of (West) Germany / Jorn Rusen 252

History, Memory, and the Historian: Facing the Shoah / Saul Friedlander 271.

Notes:

"Symposium sponsored by the Getty Research Institute ... held at the Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, Germany, in July 1997, entitled 'Memory, History, Narrative: A Comparative Inquiry into the Representation of Crisis'" -- p.ix.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0892365382

OCLC:

44634338