Memory and history understanding memory as source and subject / [electronic resource] : edited by Joan Tumblety. - London : Routledge, 2013. - ix, 224 p. : ill. - The Routledge guides to using historical sources . - Routledge guides to using historical sources. .

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780203552490 (electronic bk.)




Oral history.
Memory.
Collective memory.
Memorials.
Historiography--Methodology.


Electronic books.

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