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The Memory of Catastrophe (Paperback)
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The Memory of Catastrophe (Paperback)
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Memories of catastrophes - those which occur naturally and those
which are consequences of human actions - loom large in the modern
consciousness. This volume draws on the latest scholarship to
investigate this phenomenon in both contemporary and historical
contexts. collective memory and the relationships between them.
Arguing that a pervasive catastrophic memory may be as disabling as
it is instructive, Gray and Oliver stress the necessity of
rendering the phenomenon subject to secular critical inquiry. The
value of such an approach is then demonstrated in a series of case
studies. These range across period, place and methodological
approach, from longitudinal studies of the memory of the English
Civil War and Irish Famine, to oral-history analysis of the legacy
of Indian partition, and participant-observation of more recent
events in Croatia. Several studies concentrate on the moulding of
memories by hegemonic or demotic languages and institutions; others
focus on the mutability and ambiguities of memory as expressed in a
variety of forms. They exemplify the diversity of memorial
languages and responses to catastrophic events. Yet they also speak
to each other in their central concerns: the dynamics of memory and
erasure, rupture and recovery, uniqueness and universality,
exploitation and authenticity, power and resistance, the personal
and the social. the field. It should be of value to all with an
interest in the subject of memory and its relationship with the
cataclysms of the past.
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