Physical Description
ix, 224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Other Authors/Editors
Tumblety, Joan.
ISBN
9780415677110
0415677114 (hardback)
9780415677127 (pbk.)
0415677122 (pbk.)
Notes
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Form
Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
