Memory and history : understanding memory as source and subject / edited by Joan Tumblety.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tumblety, Joan.

Series:

Routledge guides to using historical sources.

The Routledge guides to using historical sources

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oral history.

Memory.

Collective memory.

Memorials.

Historiography--Methodology.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How does the historian approach memory and how do historians use different sources to analyze how history and memory interact and impact on each other? Memory and History explores the different aspects of the study of this field. Taking examples from Europe, Australia, the USA and Japan and treating periods beyond living memory as well as the recent past, the volume highlights the contours of the current vogue for memory among historians while demonstrating the diversity and imagination of the field.Each chapter looks at a set of key historical and historiographical que

Contents:

Introduction: Working with memory as source and subject / Joan Tumblety

Part I. Working with oral testimony

"Let me tell you" : Memory and the practice of oral history / Michal Bosworth

Small fish, big pond : using a single oral narrative to reveal broader social change / Lindsey Dodd

Memory, history and the law : testimony in Holocaust and Stolen Generations trials / Rosanne Kennedy

Part II. Memorialization and commemoration

Remembering and forgetting : the creation and destruction of inscribed monuments in Classical Athens / Polly Low

Visual cultures of memory in modern Japan : the historical uses of Japanese art collections / Franziska Seraphim

The contested memorial cultures of post-Liberation France : polemical responses to the legal purge of collaborators, 1944-c.1954 / Joan Tumblety

The Pictures in the background : history, memory and photography in the museum / Susan A. Crane

Part III. Between "individual memory" and "collective memory"

Memory as a battlefield : letters by traumatized German veterans and contested memories of the Great War / Jason Crouthamel

Memories of suburbia : autobiographical fiction and minority narratives / Hannah Ewence

Alienated memories : migrants and the silences of the archive / Tony Kushner

Biography of a Box : material culture and palimpsest memory / Susan M. Stabile.

Notes:

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-135-90543-6

0-203-55249-0

1-299-46945-0

1-135-90536-3

9780203552490

OCLC:

840466750