Remembering Mass Violence (Paperback)

Steven High

ISBN 10: 144261465X / ISBN 13: 9781442614659

Published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2014

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Paperback. Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes contributions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, survivors of mass violence, and performers and artists who have created works based on these events.This anthology is global in focus, with essays on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. At its core is a productive tension between public and private memory, a dialogue between autobiography and biography, and between individual experience and societal transformation. Remembering Mass Violence will appeal to oral historians, digital practitioners and performance-based artists around the world, as well researchers and activists involved in human rights research, migration studies, and genocide studies. Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Remembering Mass Violence (Paperback)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 144261465X
• ISBN 13: 9781442614659
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes contributions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, survivors of mass violence, and performers and artists who have created works based on these events.

This anthology is global in focus, with essays on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. At its core is a productive tension between public and private memory, a dialogue between autobiography and biography, and between individual experience and societal transformation. Remembering Mass Violence will appeal to oral historians, digital practitioners and performance-based artists around the world, as well researchers and activists involved in human rights research, migration studies, and genocide studies.

About the Author

Steven High is professor of History at Concordia University and co-founder of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.
Edward Little is a professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University.
Thi Ry Duong is the coordinator of the Cambodian Working Group with the Montreal Life Stories Project.