Overview
- Examines stories that are told about places—real or imagined—where trauma has been inflicted
- Brings a uniquely cross-cultural and global approach to the study of trauma and memory
- Explores how past suffering affects the complex relationship between traumatic memory, place and narrative
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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This volume explores the relationship between place, traumatic memory, and narrative. Drawing on cases from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and North and South America, the book provides a uniquely cross-cultural and global approach. Covering a wide range of cultural and linguistic contexts, the volume is divided into three parts: memorial spaces, sites of trauma, and traumatic representations. The contributions explore how acknowledgement of past suffering is key to the complex inter-relationship between the politics of memory, expressions of victimhood, and collective memory. Contributors take note of differing aspects of memorial culture, such as those embedded in war memorials, mass grave sites, and exhibitions, as well as journalistic, literary and visual forms of commemorations, to investigate how narratives of memory can give meaning and form to places of trauma.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Memorial Spaces
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Sites of Trauma
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Traumatic Representations
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Amy L. Hubbell is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on French narratives of trauma in autobiography and art. She is the author of Hoarding Memory: Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War (2020) and Remembering French Algeria: Pieds-Noirs, Identity, and Exile (2015).
Natsuko Akagawa is Senior Lecturer at the University of Queensland, Australia. She researches heritage politics, practice and discourse in a global context and is Series General Editor for Routledge Research on Museums and Heritage in Asia. Her recent books include Heritage Conservation and Cultural Diplomacy (2015), and Safeguarding Intangible Heritage (2019).
Sol Rojas-Lizana is Lecturer of Spanish Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is a discourse analyst researching discrimination, memory, trauma, and translation, using decolonial thought. Her latest monograph is The Discourse of Perceived Discrimination (2019). Her co-authored historical graphic memoir Historias Clandestinas (2014) is being made into a film.
Annie Pohlman is Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. She researches Indonesian history, comparative genocide studies, torture, gendered experiences of violence, and oral testimony.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Places of Traumatic Memory
Book Subtitle: A Global Context
Editors: Amy L. Hubbell, Natsuko Akagawa, Sol Rojas-Lizana, Annie Pohlman
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52055-7Published: 01 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-52058-8Published: 01 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-52056-4Published: 31 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 319
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Memory Studies, Cultural Studies, Cultural Heritage