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Title Exhuming passions : the pressure of the past in Ireland and Australia / editors, Katie Holmes, Stuart Ward
Published Crawley, W.A. : UWA Publishing, 2011
Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2011
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 MELB  306.09415 Hol/Ept  AVAILABLE
Description xvi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction. 'Poison and remedy': the pressure of the past in Ireland and Australia / Stuart Ward and Katie Holmes -- Part 1. Legacies of loss -- 1. 'It is not possible for this history to be truthful' / Annd Dolan -- 2. Wounded minds: testifying to traumatic events in Australia and Ireland / Christina Twomey -- 3. Child sexual abuse, history and the pursuit of blame in modern Ireland / Lindsey Earner-Byrne -- 4. Apologizing to the stolen generations / Judith Brett -- 5. Memories of violence and the politics of state apologies / Mark Finnane -- 6. A potent space: Australia's stolen generations and the visual arts / Anna Haebick -- 7. Contesting the past in Irish film and television / Kevin Rockett
Part 2. Legacies of empire -- 8. The changing fortunes of national myths: commemorating Anzac Day and the Easter Rising / Roisín Higgins -- 9. The 'Deficit of Remembrance': The Great War revival in Australia and Ireland / Dominic Bryan and Stuart Ward -- 10. Irish and Australian historical fiction / Oona Frawley and Sue Kossew -- 11. Reconciliation and the history wars in Australian cinema / Felicity Collins -- 12. Redeeming landscapes: Ireland and Australia / Katie Holmes -- 13. Tracing the past in Dublin and Canberra: memory, history and nation / Catriona Elder and Yvonne Whelan -- 14. 'Whatever happened to Republicanism?': changing images of the monarch in Ireland and Australia / John Coakley and Mark McKenna
Summary Publisher's description. Public disputes over memory and the uses of the past have become a customary feature of contemporary culture. Debates about wartime resistance, apologies for slavery and abuse, and the entrenchment of a national historical 'canon' in schools have been sparked by recent anniversaries of historical events. Ireland and Australia represent two case studies that are often singled out for their peculiar brand of bitterly disputed remembrance. This volume brings together 18 Irish and Australian scholars from the disciplines of history, anthropology, politics, literary criticism, sociology, and film studies, to reconsider their respective national cultures of remembrance in the light of parallel developments on the other side of the world. The essays discuss how narratives of trauma, victimhood and loss have manifested themselves in contemporary Irish and Australian remembrance
Analysis Australian
Notes First published: Irish Academic Press, 2011
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
Australia -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114311
Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315
Ireland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067989
Ireland -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96010844
Ireland -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068048
Author Holmes, Katie, editor
Ward, Stuart, editor
ISBN 1742583873 (paperback)
9781742583877 (paperback)