Amnesia Road - Landscape, violence and memory (Paperback)

Luke Stegemann

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Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's History Awards - Australian History Prize 2021 How vast then is forgetting - of language, of places, of the dead? Are these even things that can be measured? They are not - but they can be described. Amnesia Road is a powerful literary consideration of historic violence in two different parts of the world, the seldom-visited mulga plains of south-west Queensland and the backroads of rural Andalusia. It is also an unashamed celebration of the landscapes where this violence - frontier conflict and civil war - has been carried out. Australian Hispanist Luke Stegemann uncovers neglected history and its victims and asks where such forgotten people can find a place in contemporary debates around history, nationality, guilt and identity. Stegemann writes powerfully about these landscapes, finding threads of forgotten history, particularly the brutal murderous Indigenous history that is so often deliberately ignored and the mass killings of civilians in the Spanish Civil War, in Andalusia and Cadiz in particular. Characterised by beautiful, lush writing that remains unflinching, this book prompts us to consider traumatic history and the places where it unfolded in new ways.

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Imprint:	NewSouth Publishing
Country of origin:	Australia
Release date:	March 2021
Authors:	Luke Stegemann
Dimensions:	234 x 153 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
ISBN-13:	978-1-74223-672-8
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General Books > Travel > Travel writing > General Promotions
LSN:	1-74223-672-3
Barcode:	9781742236728