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Oral history and public memories
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press (2008), xvii, 302 pp.
"Oral history is inherently about memory, and when oral history interviews are used "in public," they invariably both reflect and shape public memories of the past. Oral History and Public Memories is the only book that explores this relationship, in fourteen case studies of oral history's use in a
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Cultural Memory Studies: An International and Interdisciplinary Handbook
Berlin; New York: De Gruyter (2008), viii, 441 pp.
"This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of “cultural memory studies” for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The handbook not only documents curre
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Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2008), xi, 170 pp.
"The representation of the Holocaust in literature and film has confronted lecturers and students with some challenging questions. Does this unique and disturbing subject demand alternative pedagogic strategies? What is the role of ethics in the classroom encounter with the Holocaust? " (Publisher d
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Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa
Walnut Creek, Calif.: Left Coast Press (2007), 270 pp.
"Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memorie
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Remembering: Oral History Performance
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2006), xii, 205 pp.
"Drawing on the work of scholars and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Gloria Anzaldua, and Trinh Minh-ha, these essays advocate oral history and oral history-based performance as means to challenge and expand upon traditional ways of transmitting historical knowledge. The contributors' central co
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The Theatre of Violence: Narratives of Protagonists in the South African Conflict
Capetwon; Oxford: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation; HSRC Press; James Currey (2005), xii, 364 pp.
"If the dominant media stereotype portrays perpetrators as monsters, as ‘Prime Evil’, then the dominant academic image is the opposite. It paints them as ordinary people (gender ignored, but assumed as male) diligently under sway of modern bureaucratic compartmentalisation (the banality of evil
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Medien des kollektiven Gedächtnisses: Konstruktivität - Historizität - Kulturspezifität
Berlin; New York: De Gruyter (2004), viii, 310 pp.
Télévision, mémoire et identités nationales
Paris: L'Harmattan; Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA) (2003), 198 pp.
"Dans quelle mesure la télévision a-t-elle contribué, et contribue-t-elle encore, à forger la mémoire nationale et l'identité nationale dans chaque pays ? Y a-t-il eu une politique volontariste en ce domaine ? Quels sont les effets du statut des chaînes de télévision, privées ou publiques
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Voices of Collective Remembering
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2002), v, 202 pp.
"There is currently a great deal of discussion in the humanities and social sciences about collective memory, but there is very little agreement on what it is. The first goal of this volume is to review various understandings of this term to bring some coherence to the discussion. Drawing on this re
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African Words, African Voices: Critical Practices in Oral History
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2002), vi, 322 pp.
"Until the advent of African independence, Africans were not considered fitting subjects for historical research and their words, voices, and experiences were largely absent from the continent's history. In 13 lively and provocative essays focusing on all areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, oral sources ar
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Recreando el pasado: Guía metodológica para la memoria y la historia local
Santiago de Chile: Educación y Comunicaciones (ECO) (2002), 33 pp.
Gedächtnis und Erinnerung: Ein interdisziplinäres Lexikon
Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag (2001), 700 pp.
"Um die Ansätze und Erkenntnisse der unterschiedlichen Forschungsrichtungen zusammenzuführen, präsentiert dieses interdisziplinäre Lexikon das weite Feld der Gedächtnicforschung in seiner historischen und theoretischen Vielfalt. Mit über 450 Artikeln deckt es die Disziplinen ab, in denen die P
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War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (1999), vii, 260 pp.
"No scholarly consensus exists about how the terms 'memory' and 'collective memory' may most fruitfully inform historical study. Hence there is still much room for reflection and clarification in this branch of cultural history. How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in thi
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Video, War, and the Diasporic Imagination
London; New York: Routledge (1997), xvi, 252 pp.
"Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination is an incisive study of the loss and (re) construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Croatian and Macedonian communities in Western Australia, Dona Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes t
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Lateinamerika
Frankfurt am Main: Vervuert (1996), 226 pp.
