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

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TextPublication details: London; New York: Routledge, 2013Description: ix, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9780415677127 (pbk.); 0415677114 (hardback); 0415677122 (pbk.)Subject(s): Oral history | Memory | Collective memory | Memorials | Historiography -- MethodologyDDC classification: 907.2

Contents:

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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"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.

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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