History, Trauma and Shame - Engaging the Past Through Second Generation Dialogue

History, Trauma and Shame provides an in-depth examination of the sustained dialogue about the past between children of Holocaust survivors and descendants of families whose parents were either directly or indirectly involved in Nazi crimes.

List of contents

1: Empathic Repair in the Aftermath of Mass Violence and Trauma: Is it Possible to Repair the Past? 2: Broken Identities: A German in Dialogue with Jewish Colleagues. 3: Beyond Inherited Guilt: Reclaiming the Self. 4: From Broken Human Bonds to Compassionate Dialogue: Restoring Interpersonal Solidarity Ruined by the Holocaust . 5: The Power of Fear and Shame: From Hiding Place to Public Space. 6: Group Phenomena in Working through the Past

About the author

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Professor and holds the South African National Research Foundation Research Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She is the author of the award-winning A Human Being Died that Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness.

Summary

History, Trauma and Shame provides an in-depth examination of the sustained dialogue about the past between children of Holocaust survivors and descendants of families whose parents were either directly or indirectly involved in Nazi crimes.

Product details

• Authors: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, Pumla (Stellenbosch University Gobodo-Madikizela
• Assisted by: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (Editor), Pumla (Stellenbosch University Gobodo-Madikizela (Editor), Gobodo-Madikizela Pumla (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781138307834
• ISBN: 978-1-138-30783-4
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Social & cultural history, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, Second World War, The Holocaust, Social, group or collective psychology, Social and cultural history, Peace studies and conflict resolution, c 1940 to c 1949, Peace studies & conflict resolution