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The Memory of Catastrophe

Peter Gray Kendrick Oliver Rebecca Mortimer

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English
Manchester Univ. Press
13 May 2004
This book offers a nuanced and progressive model for future scholarship in the field. It should be of value to all with an interest in the subject of memory and its relationship with the cataclysms of the past.
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Imprint:   Manchester Univ. Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 13mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:   9780719063459
ISBN 10:   0719063450
Pages:   240
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
List of Contributors 1. Introduction – Peter Gray and Kendrick Oliver 2. Remembering the English Civil War – Mark Stoyle 3. ‘Diabolical design’: Charleston elites, the 1822 slave insurrection and the discourse of the supernatural – P. A. Cramer 4. Memory and the commemoration of the Great Irish Famine – Peter Gray 5. ‘The greatest and the worst’: Dominant and subaltern memories of the Dos Bocas well fire of 1908 – Glen D. Kuecker 6. The Titanic and the commodification of catastrophe – James Guimond 7. Doctors and trauma in World War One: The response of British military psychiatrists – Edgar Jones 8. Commemorations of the siege of Leningrad: A catastrophe in memory and myth – Lisa A. Kirschenbaum 9. The missing camps of Aktion Reinhard: The judicial displacement of a mass murder – Donald Bloxham 10. Memory and authenticity: The case of Binjamin Wilkomirski – Andrea Reiter 11. Partition memory and multiple identities in the Champaran district of Bihar, India – Kathinka Sinha-Kerkhoff 12. Bodies do count: American nurses mourn the catastrophe of Vietnam – Carol Acton 13. ‘Not much of a place anymore’: The reception and memory of the massacre at My Lai – Kendrick Oliver 14. Remembering Vukovar, forgetting Vukovar: Constructing national identity through the memory of catastrophe in Croatia – Rose Lindsey 15. Who do you think you are kidding, Mr Sawoniuk? British memory of the Holocaust and Kosovo, Spring 1999 – Tony Kushner -- .

Peter Gray is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Southampton. Kendrick Oliver is a Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Southampton

Reviews for The Memory of Catastrophe

I loved this book--a fabulous topic, powerfully argued. The entire book was riveting. It should become required reading for anyone interested in disaster, war and memory. --Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck College


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