War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century

ISBN-13: 9780521794367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 272 str.

Jay Winter; Emmanuel Sivan

Opis

Drawing on material from Europe, America and the Middle East, leading scholars of twentieth century history address the issue of how wars, and the loss of life in wars, have been remembered collectively in the aftermath of conflicts such as the First and Second World Wars, the Spanish Civil War and the Algerian War. However, rather than focus on whole societies or ruling groups alone, this volume adopts a "social agency" approach to highlight the behavior of small groups and individuals who do the work of remembrance.

Recenzje

'… this is precisely the kind of broad, comparative volume which scholars of the Holocaust should be reading.' Journal of Holocaust Education

Spis treści

Introduction Emmanuel Sivan and Jay Winter; 1. Setting the framework Emmanuel Sivan and Jay Winter; 2. Forms of kinship and remembrance in the aftermath of the Great War Jay Winter; 3. War, death and remembrance in Soviet Russia Catherine Merridale; 4. Agents of memory: Spanish Civil War veterans and disabled soldiers Paloma Aguilar; 5. Children as war victims in postwar European cinema Pierre Sorlin; 6. From survivor to witness: voices from the Shoah Annette Wieviorka; 7. Landscapes of loss: little Tokyo in Los Angeles Dolores Hayden; 8. The Algerian war in French collective memory Antoine Prost; 9. Private pain and public remembrance in Israel Emmanuel Sivan; 10. Personal narratives and commemoration Samuel Hynes; 11. Against consolation: Walter Benjamin and the refusal to mourn Martin Jay.