1st Edition
Memories of Mass Repression Narrating Life Stories in the Aftermath of Atrocity
By Selma Leydesdorff
Copyright 2009
250 Pages
by
Routledge
250 Pages
by
Routledge
249 Pages
by
Routledge
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Memories of Mass Repression presents the results of researchers working with the voices of witnesses. Its stories include the witnesses, victims, and survivors; it also reflects the subjective experience of the study of such narratives. The work contributes to the development of the field of oral history, where the creation of the narrative is considered an interaction between the text of the... Read more
I: Truth-Seeking and Memory Failure in Stories of Chaos and Misery; Srebrenica in the History of Genocide: A Prologue; 1: When Communities Fell Apart and Neighbors Became Enemies: Stories of Bewilderment in Srebrenica; 2: Localizing the Rwandan Genocide: The Story of Runda; 3: Memories and Silences: On the Narrative of an Ingrian Gulag Survivor; II: Aftermath: Trauma and Emotions; 4: “My Entire Life I Have Shivered”: Homecoming and New Persecution of Former Slave and Forced Laborers of Nazi Germany; 5: Resisting Oppression: Stories of the 1980s’ Mass Insurrection by Political Activists in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa; 6: Struggling with a Horrendous Past: Rwandans Talk about the Aftermath of the Genocide; 7: Leaving Silence Behind? Algerians and the Memories of Repression by French Security Forces in Paris in 1961; III: The Transmission and Distortion of Memory; 8: “Privatized Memory?” The Story of Erecting the First Holocaust Memorial in Budapest; 9: Recalling the Appalling: Mass Violence in Eastern Turkey in the Twentieth Century; 10: Multiple Framings: Survivor and Non-Survivor Interviewers in Holocaust Video Testimony; List of Contributors
Biography
Selma Leydesdorff
