Shadows of War
Shadows of War
Ruth Ginio, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut
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GBPSilence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores how different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silences that have followed violence in twentieth-century Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These essays show that silence is a powerful language of remembrance and commemoration and a cultural practice with its own rules. This broad-ranging book discloses the universality of silence in the ways we think about war through examples ranging from the Spanish Civil War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Armenian Genocide and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Bringing together scholarship on varied practices in different cultures, this book breaks new ground in the vast literature on memory, and opens up new avenues of reflection and research on the lingering aftermath of war.
- Draws on history, anthropology, sociology and political science to map out the history of silence
- Brings together scholarship on varied practices in different cultures as well as opening up new avenues of research on the lingering aftermath of war
- A major contribution to the history of memory and memory studies
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April 2010Adobe eBook Reader
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Framing the Problem: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches:
- 1. Thinking about silence Jay Winter
- 2. The social sound of silence: toward a sociology of denial Eviatar Zerubavel
- Part II. Europe:
- 3. Breaking the silence? Memory and oblivion since the Spanish Civil War Mary Vincent
- 4. In the ashes of disgrace: guilt versus shame revisited Jeffrey K. Olick
- 5. On silence, madness, and lassitude: negotiating the past in post-war West Germany Svenja Goltermann
- Part III. Africa:
- 6. Silences on state violence during the Algerian War of Independence: France and Algeria, 1962–2007 Raphaëlle Branche and Jim House
- 7. African silences: negotiating the story of France's colonial soldiers, 1914–2009 Ruth Ginio
- 8. Now that all is said and done: reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa Louise Bethlehem
- Part IV. The Middle East:
- 9. Facing history: denial and the Turkish national security concept Taner Akçam
- 10. Imposed silences and self-censorship: Palmach soldiers remember 1948 Efrat Ben-Ze'ev
- 11. Forgetting the Lebanon War? On silence, denial and the selective remembrance of the 'First' Lebanon war Asher Kaufman.
