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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 sites of contestation, and the politics of memory are increasingly prominent. 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.
The chapters in this volume offer a complex awareness of the workings of memory, and the ways in which different or changing histories may be explained. They explore the relation between individual and social memory, between real and imaginary, event and fantasy, history and myth. Contradictory accounts, or memories in direct contradiction to the historical record are not always the sign of a repressive authority attempting to cover something up. The tension between memory as a safeguard against attempts to silence dissenting voices, and memory's own implication in that silencing, runs throughout the book.
Topics covered range from the Basque country to Cambodia, from Hungary to South Africa, from the Finnish Civil War to the cult Jim Jarmusch movie Dead Man, from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to Australia. Part I, "Transforming Memory" is concerned primarily with the social and personal transmission of memory across time and generations. Part II, "Remembering Suffering: Trauma and History," brings the after-effects of catastrophe to the fore. Part III, "Patterning the National Past," the relation between nation and memory is the central issue. Part IV, "And Then Silence," reflects on the complex and multiple meaning of silence and oblivion, wherein amnesia is often used as a figure for the denial of shameful pasts.
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Katharine Hodgkin teaches in the School of Cultural and Innovation Studies at the University of East London.
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- PublisherRoutledge
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1412804884
- ISBN 13 9781412804882
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages280
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tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Memory - Social aspects., Memory - Political aspects., Collective memory., Nationalism and collective memory., Memory - Political aspects., Memory - Social aspects., Collectief geheugen., Herinnering., Historisch besef., Memoire - Aspect social., Memoire - Aspect politique., Geschichtsschreibung., Kollektives GedaÌ?chtnis., VergangenheitsbewaÌ?ltigung., Collectief geheugen., Herinnering., Historisch besef., Geschichtsschreibung., Kollektives GedaÌ?chtnis., VergangenheitsbewaÌ?ltigung Memory, history, nation : contested pasts New Brunswick, N.J. Transaction Publishers c2006. 23 cm. xv, 264 p. : ill. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Katharine Hodgkin, Susannah Radstone, editors. [Contested pasts. ][Contested pasts ][Contested pasts. ][Contested pasts. ]. Memory and narrative series. Originally published: Contested pasts. New York : Routledge, 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index. Originally published as: Contested pasts. New York; London: Routledge, 2003. Contents The massacre at the Fosse Ardeatine: history, myth, ritual and symbol / Alessandro Portelli -- Memories and histories, public and private: after the Finnish Civil War / Anne Heimo and Ulla-Maija Peltonen -- War, history, and the education of (Canadian) memory / Graham Carr -- 'We would never have come without you': generations of nostalgia / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer -- The traumatic paradox: autobiographical documentary and the psychology of memory / Janet Walker -- Memories of violence in interviews with Basque nationalist women / Carrie Hamilton -- Sale of the century? Memory and historical consciousness in Australia / Paula Hamilton -- 'Brothers and sisters, do not be afraid of me': trauma, history and the therapeutic imagination in the new South Africa / Christopher J. Colvin -- Nationalism and memory at the Tuol Sleng Museum of Genocide Crimes, Phnom Penh, Cambodia / Rachel Hughes -- The death of socialism and the afterlife of its monuments: making and marketing the past in Budapest's Statue Park Museum / Maya Nadkarni -- From contested to consensual memory: the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum / Robert Burgoyne -- 'Dead Man': film, colonialism and memory / Chris Healy -- Memories between silence and oblivion / Luisa Passerini . ISBN: 1412804884 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781412804882 (pbk (=1938165=) LK175. Seller Inventory # 1938165
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