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


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Part of the series The Routledge guides to using historical sources;Routledge guides to using historical sources.
Notes:

  • Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada –Title page verso.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • 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.

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