Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context

Places of Traumatic Memory: A Global Context
ISBN-10
3030520560
ISBN-13
9783030520564
Category
History
Pages
319
Language
English
Published
2020-10-31
Publisher
Springer Nature
Authors
Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Annie Pohlman

Description

This volume explores the relationship between place, traumatic memory, and narrative. Drawing on cases from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America, the book provides a uniquely cross-cultural and global approach. Covering a wide range of cultural and linguistic contexts, the volume is divided into three parts: memorial spaces, sites of trauma, and traumatic representations. The contributions explore how acknowledgement of past suffering is key to the complex inter-relationship between the politics of memory, expressions of victimhood, and collective memory. Contributors take note of differing aspects of memorial culture, such as those embedded in war memorials, mass grave sites, and exhibitions, as well as journalistic, literary and visual forms of commemorations, to investigate how narratives of memory can give meaning and form to places of trauma.

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