Trauma and public memory
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2015), xii, 231 pp., index
ISBN 9781137406798 (print); 978-1-349-48806-3; 978-1-137-40680-4 (ebook)
"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been neglected or excluded, but traumatic memory poses special problems in this regard. Andrew Hoskins and John Sutton, the series editors, suggest that the question of how we remember has become central to historical enquiry, but the question itself is fraught with complexity. Generational change and new technologies of memory are reshaping the ways in which memory works, and the influence of trauma narratives is a factor in this. They pose another question: ‘What is “memory” under such conditions?’ Here, we focus on the distance between traumatic narratives in the public domain, and the experience of traumatic recall in the mind of a person who has been directly affected by extreme events." (Introduction, p.1)
Contents
Introduction / Jane Goodall and Christopher Lee, 1
I. OVERVIEWS
1 ''But Why Should You People at Home Not Know?' Sacrifice as a Social fact in the Public Memory of War / Christopher Lee, 21
2 Trauma, Dispossession and Narrative Truth: 'Seeds of the Nation' of South Sudan / Wendy Richards, 37
3 Trauma and the Stoic Foundations of Sympathy / Jane Goodall, 52
4 Unremembered: Memorial, Sentimentality, Dislocation / Laurie Johnson, 70
II. INTERVIEWS
5 Ross Anderson, Clinical Psychologist, 87
6 Therese Lee, Emergency Nursing Specialist, 94
7 Norman Fry, Disaster Response Co-ordinator, Toowoomba Regional Council, 103
8 Sue Hewett, Senior Recovery Officer and Tanya Milligan, Chair of Human and Social Response Committee for the Lockyer Valley Council, 109
9 Mark Willacy, Foreign Correspondent Australian Broadcasting Commission, 115
III. REFLECTIONS
10 Unburied Trauma and the Exhumation of History: An American Genealogy / Lindsay Tuggle, 131
11 The Atrocity Tour / Lindsay Barrett, 147
12 Regaining Lost Humanity: Dealing with Trauma in Exile / Robert Mason and Geoffrey Parkes, 163
13 Popular Entertainments as Survival Strategies During World War Two / Victor Emeljanow, 174
14 A Soldier's Perspective / Richard Gehrman, 193
Conclusion, 207
I. OVERVIEWS
1 ''But Why Should You People at Home Not Know?' Sacrifice as a Social fact in the Public Memory of War / Christopher Lee, 21
2 Trauma, Dispossession and Narrative Truth: 'Seeds of the Nation' of South Sudan / Wendy Richards, 37
3 Trauma and the Stoic Foundations of Sympathy / Jane Goodall, 52
4 Unremembered: Memorial, Sentimentality, Dislocation / Laurie Johnson, 70
II. INTERVIEWS
5 Ross Anderson, Clinical Psychologist, 87
6 Therese Lee, Emergency Nursing Specialist, 94
7 Norman Fry, Disaster Response Co-ordinator, Toowoomba Regional Council, 103
8 Sue Hewett, Senior Recovery Officer and Tanya Milligan, Chair of Human and Social Response Committee for the Lockyer Valley Council, 109
9 Mark Willacy, Foreign Correspondent Australian Broadcasting Commission, 115
III. REFLECTIONS
10 Unburied Trauma and the Exhumation of History: An American Genealogy / Lindsay Tuggle, 131
11 The Atrocity Tour / Lindsay Barrett, 147
12 Regaining Lost Humanity: Dealing with Trauma in Exile / Robert Mason and Geoffrey Parkes, 163
13 Popular Entertainments as Survival Strategies During World War Two / Victor Emeljanow, 174
14 A Soldier's Perspective / Richard Gehrman, 193
Conclusion, 207
