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At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered.
Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is to proceed when what is to be remembered is underscored by a logic difficult to comprehend and subversive of the humane character of existence. This pedagogical attention to practices of remembrance reflects the growing cognizance that hope for a just and compassionate future lies in the sustained, if troubled, working through of these issues.
List of contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: Between Hope and Despair: The Pedagogical Encounter of Historical Rememberance Chapter 2 1 The Paradoxical Practice of Zakhor: "Memories of That Which Has Never My Fault" Chapter 3 2 If the Story Cannot End: Deferred Action, Ambivalence and Difficult Knowledge Chapter 4 3 Anxiety and Contact in Attending to a Play about Landmines Chapter 5 4 Standing in a Circle of Stone: Rupturing the Binds of Emblamatic Memory Chapter 6 5 Never to Forget: Pedagogical Memory and Second Generation Witness Chapter 7 6 Artifactual Testimonies and the Staging of Holocaust Memories Chapter 8 7 Pedagogy and Trauma: The Middle Passage, Slavery, and the Problem of Creolization Chapter 9 8 Loss in Present Terms: Reading the Limits of Post-dictatorship Argentina's National Conciliation Chapter 10 9 Beyond Reconciliation: Memory and Allerity in Post-Genocide Rwanda Chapter 11 10 Re-Learning Questions: Responses to the Ethical Address of the Past and Present of Others Chapter 12 Bibliography Chapter 13 Index Chapter 14 About the Editors and Contributors
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Edited by Roger I. Simon; Sharon Rosenberg and Claudia Eppert - Contributions by Rachel Baum; Deborah P. Britzman; Mario DiPaolantonio; Andrea Liss; Jody Ranck; Julie Salverson and Rinaldo Walcott
Summary
This volume examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is to proceed when what is to be remembered is underscored by a logic difficult to comprehend and which is subversive of the human character of existence.
