Contested pasts : the politics of memory / edited by Katherine 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, [1], 240 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

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.In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become

Contents:

Cover; CONTESTED PASTS; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction: Contested pasts; Part I Transforming memory; INTRODUCTION; 1 The massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine: history, myth, ritual and symbol; 2 Memories and histories, public and private: after the Finnish Civil War; 3 War, history, and the education of (Canadian) memory; 4 'We would never have come without you': generations of nostalgia; Part II Remembering suffering: trauma and history; INTRODUCTION

5 The traumatic paradox: autobiographical documentary and the psychology of memory6 Memories of violence in interviews with Basque nationalist women; 7 Sale of the century? Memory and historical consciousness in Australia; 8 'Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid of me': trauma, history and the therapeutic imagination in the new South Africa; Part III Patterning the national past; INTRODUCTION; 9 Nationalism and memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

10 The death of socialism and the afterlife of its monuments: making and marketing the past in Budapest's Statue Park Museum11 From contested to consensual memory: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; 12 'Dead Man': film, colonialism and memory; Part IV And then silence...; INTRODUCTION; 13 Memories between silence and oblivion; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415753876

0415753872

9781134448258

1134448252

9781280024276

1280024275

9780203391471

0203391470

OCLC:

475878899