Trauma and the Memory of Politics
Trauma and the Memory of Politics
- ISBN 13:
9780521534208
- ISBN 10:
0521534208
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 08/25/2003
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism. She argues that remembrance does not have to be nationalistic but can instead challenge the political systems that produced the violence. Using examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and September 11th, Edkins analyzes the practices of memory rituals through memorials, museums and remembrance ceremonies. This wide-ranging study embraces literature, history, politics and international relations, in an original contribution to the study of memory.