| Description |
xxi, 228 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Srebrenica in the history of genocide : a prologue / Norman M. Naimark -- 1. When communities fell apart and neighbors became enemies : stories of bewilderment in Srebrenica / Selma Leydesdorff -- 2. Localizing the Rwandan genocide : the story of Runda / Jacob R. Boersema -- 3. Memories and silences : on the narrative of an Ingrian gulag survivor / Ulla-Maija Peltonen -- 4. "My entire life I have shivered" : homecoming and new persecution of former slave and forced laborers of Nazi Germany / Christoph Thonfeld -- 5. Resisting oppression : stories of the 1980s' mass insurrection by political activists in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa / Jan K. Coetzee and Geoffrey T. Wood -- 6. Struggling with a horrendous past : Rwandans talk about the aftermath of the genocide / Hessel Nieuwelink -- 7. Leaving silence behind? : Algerians and the memories of repression by French security forces in Paris in 1961 / Jim House -- 8. "Privatized memory?" : the story of erecting the first Holocaust memorial in Budapest / Andrea Peto -- 9. Recalling the appalling : mass violence in Eastern Turkey in the twentieth century / Ugur Umit Ungor -- 10. Multiple framings : survivor and non-survivor interviewers in Holocaust video testimony / Michele Langfield and Pam Maclean |
| Summary |
"Memories of Mass Repression: Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity presents the results of researchers working with the voices of witnesses. Its stories include the witnesses, victims and survivors; they also reflect the subjective experience of the study of such narratives. The work contributes to the development of the field of oral history, where the creation of the narrative is considered an act of interaction between the text of the narrator and the listener. The contributors are particularly interested in ways in which memory is created and molded. The interactions of different, even conflicting, memories of other individuals and society as a whole are considered."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Historiography -- Social aspects.
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Historiography -- Political aspects.
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Collective memory -- Political aspects.
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Memory -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century.
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Memory -- Political aspects.
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Social history -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Adler, Nanci.
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| LC no. |
2008035350 |
| ISBN |
9781412808538 |
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