Contested pasts : the politics of memory / edited by Katharine Hodgkin and Susannah Radstone.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hodgkin, Katharine, 1961-

Radstone, Susannah.

Series:

Routledge studies in memory and narrative

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Memory--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory.

Contents:

Introduction: Contested pasts / Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone 1

Part I Transforming memory 23

1 The massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine: history, myth, ritual and symbol / Alessandro Portelli 29

2 Memories and histories, public and private: after the Finnish Civil War / Anne Heimo, Ulla-Maija Peltonen 42

3 War, history, and the education of (Canadian) memory / Graham Carr 57

4 'We would never have come without you': generations of nostalgia / Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer 79

Part II Remembering suffering: trauma and history 97

5 The traumatic paradox: autobiographical documentary and the psychology of memory / Janet Walker 104

6 Memories of violence in interviews with Basque nationalist women / Carrie Hamilton 120

7 Sale of the century? Memory and historical consciousness in Australia / Paula Hamilton 136

8 'Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid of me': trauma, history and the therapeutic imagination in the new South Africa / Christopher J. Colvin 153

Part III Patterning the national past 169

9 Nationalism and memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Rachel Hughes 175

10 The death of socialism and the afterlife of its monuments: making and marketing the past in Budapest's Statue Park Museum / Maya Nadkarni 193

11 From contested to consensual memory: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum / Robert Burgoyne 208

12 'Dead Man': film, colonialism and memory / Chris Healy 221

Part IV And then silence ... 237

13 Memories between silence and oblivion / Luisa Passerini 238.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415286476

OCLC:

50693165