Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are "unwritten" sources couched in a form suitable for oral transmission, and that their preservation depends on the powers of memory of successive generations of human beings. In many parts of the world inhabited by peoples without writing, oral tradition forms the main available source for a reconstruction of the past.
Oral traditions are historical sources of a special nature. Their special nature derives from the fact that they are "unwritten" sources couched in a ...
Traumatic experiences and their consequences are often the core of life stories told by survivors of violence. In Trauma: Life Stories of Survivors leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness that have caused trauma, the ways in which survivors remember, and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.International case studies include the migration of Ethiopian Jews to Israel, the life stories of Guatemalan war widows, violence in South Africa, persecution of political prisoners in South...
Traumatic experiences and their consequences are often the core of life stories told by survivors of violence. In Trauma: Life Stories of Survi...
Gender and Memory brings together contributions from around the world and from a range of disciplines--history and sociology, socio-linguistics and family therapy, literature--to create a volume that confronts all those concerned with autobiographical testimony and narrative, both spoken and written. The fundamental theme is the shaping of memory by gender. This paperback edition includes a new introduction by Selma Leydesdorff, coeditor of the Memory and Narrative series of which this volume is a part.
Are the different ways in which men and women are recalled in public and...
Gender and Memory brings together contributions from around the world and from a range of disciplines--history and sociology, socio-lingui...
In this volume, contributors present narratives and explore the way they influence the perception of the past. While acknowledging the debate about the validity of qualitative research based on narratives, this volume aims to illuminate how truth and evidence form part of a much wider debate on the representation of history.
The volume includes the work of historians but the interdisciplinary nature of the contributions shows that the validity debate also applies to the broader fields of cultural studies, sociology, and other social sciences. The distinction between memory and...
In this volume, contributors present narratives and explore the way they influence the perception of the past. While acknowledging the debate about...
In this volume, academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.
In this volume, academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the rep...
On October 14, 1943 Aleksandr -Sasha- Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in the East. This story of a forgotten hero reveals the tremendous difference in the memorial cultures between Western and Eastern societies and also how Jews were not passive in the face of German violence.
Pechersky, along with other Russian and Jewish inmates who had been prisoners of the Nazis, was considered suspect by...
On October 14, 1943 Aleksandr -Sasha- Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only su...
