War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century

Klappentext Collaborative volume examining how wars have been remembered in Europe! America and the Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Emmanuel Sivan and Jay Winter; 1. Setting the framework Emmanuel Sivan and Jay Winter; 2. Forms of kinship and remembrance in the aftermath of the Great War Jay Winter; 3. War, death and remembrance in Soviet Russia Catherine Merridale; 4. Agents of memory: Spanish Civil War veterans and disabled soldiers Paloma Aguilar; 5. Children as war victims in postwar European cinema Pierre Sorlin; 6. From survivor to witness: voices from the Shoah Annette Wieviorka; 7. Landscapes of loss: little Tokyo in Los Angeles Dolores Hayden; 8. The Algerian war in French collective memory Antoine Prost; 9. Private pain and public remembrance in Israel Emmanuel Sivan; 10. Personal narratives and commemoration Samuel Hynes; 11. Against consolation: Walter Benjamin and the refusal to mourn Martin Jay.

Product details

• Authors: Dr Jay Sivan Winter, Jay Sivan Winter
• Assisted by: Emmanuel Sivan (Editor), Jay Winter (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.08.2000
• EAN: 9780521794367
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79436-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History