Against Remembrance and Other Essays

ISBN-10
1908308060
ISBN-13
9781908308061
Category
Atrocities
Pages
121
Language
English
Published
2011-01-01
Author
David Rieff

Description

Esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hatreds, violence and wars.

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