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Investigates the dynamic relationship between experiences of profound social and cultural disruption, and human memory. Critical comparisons are made across a wide variety of catastrophic experiences and memories; not just of war, but also of massacre, genocide, rebellion, famine, partition, shipwreck and fire. The book is an accessible showcase for a wide range of methodological approaches to the study of memory, including literary studies, cultural studies, participant-observation and historical studies, and uses a variety of oral, visual and written sources. Offers a diverse chronological and geographical range of catastrophic cases, from seventeenth-century England to the recent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, from Ireland to the Indian sub-continent, from Mexico to wartime Leningrad. Well-written and accessible - a fascinating read.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Memory of Catastrophe
• Author: Peter Gray
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780719063459
• ISBN: 0719063450
• ID: 04399976
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Weight: 370 g
• Dimensions: 157 × 233 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. May 2004

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