Tapestry of memory : evidence and testimony in life-story narratives / Nanci Adler, Selma Leydesdorff, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adler, Nanci.

Leydesdorff, Selma.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography--Methodology--Case studies.

Historiography.

Memory--Case studies.

Memory.

Collective memory--Case studies.

Collective memory.

Historiography--Methodology.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xxix, 250 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, [2013]

Summary:

This book is about how Australians have responded to stories about suffering and injustice in Australia, presented in a range of public media, including literature, history, films, and television. Those who have responded are both ordinary and prominent Australians. All have sought to come to terms with Australia's history by responding empathetically to stories of its marginalized citizens. Drawing upon international scholarship on collective memory, public history, testimony, and witnessing, this book represents a cultural history of contemporary Australia. It examines the forms of witnessing that dominated Australian public culture at the turn of the millennium. Memories of Mass Repression presents the voices of witnesses. Its stories include the witnesses, victims, and survivors. It also reflects the subjective experience of the study of such narratives. The work contributes to the development of the field of oral history. The contributors are particularly interested in ways in which memory is created and molded. The interactions of different, even conflicting, memories of other individuals, and society as a whole are considered. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : on the evidence value of personal testimony / Selma Leydesdorff and Nanci Adler

Historicizing hate : testimonies and photos about the Holocaust : trauma during the Hungarian post WWII trials / Andrea Peto

The legacies of the Stalinist repression : narratives of the children of loyalist "enemies of the people" / Nanci Adler

"You don't believe me?" : truth and testimony in Cypriot refugee narratives / Helen Taylor

Between social and individual memory : being a Polish woman in a Stalinist prison / Anna Muller

"They didn't rape me" : traces of gendered violence and sexual injury in the testimonies of Spanish republican woman of the Franco dictatorship / Gina Herrmann

On testimony : the pain of speaking and speaking of pain / Srila Roy

Memories of Argentina's past over time : the memories of Tacuara / Maria Valeria Galvan

History, memory, narrative : expressions of collective memory in the northern Cheyenne testimony / Sachiko Kawaura

Voices behind the mic : sport broadcasters, autobiography and competing narratives of the past / Richard Haynes

The "book of us" : will and community in South African land restitution / Christiaan Beyers

'What may or not may not have happened in the past' : truth, lies and the refusal to witness indigenous Australian testimony / Kelly Butler

Individual desire or social duty? : the role of testimony in a restitution procedure : an inquiry into social practice / Nicole L. Immler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412851657

1412851653

OCLC:

808244885