Between Hope and Despair Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma

by Simon, Roger I.; Rosenberg, Sharon; Eppert, Claudia; Baum, Rachel; Britzman, Deborah P.; DiPaolantonio, Mario; Liss, Andrea; Ranck, Jody; Salverson, Julie; Walcott, Rinaldo

• ISBN13: 9780847694631
• ISBN10: 0847694631
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-15
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction. Between Hope and Despair: The Pedagogical Encounter of Historical Remembrance	1	(9)
Roger I. Simon
Sharon Rosenberg
Claudia Eppert
The Paradoxical Practice of Zakhor: Memories of ``What Has Never Been My Fault or My Deed''	9	(18)
Roger I. Simon
If the Story Cannot End: Deferred Action, Ambivalence, and Difficult Knowledge	27	(32)
Deborah P. Britzman
Anxiety and Contact in Attending to a Play about Land Mines	59	(16)
Julie Salverson
Standing in a Circle of Stone: Rupturing the Binds of Emblematic Memory	75	(16)
Sharon Rosenberg
Never to Forget: Pedagogical Memory and Second-Generation Witness	91	(26)
Rachel N. Baum
Artifactual Testimonies and the Stagings of Holocaust Memory	117	(18)
Andrea Liss
Pedagogy and Trauma: The Middle Passage, Slavery, and the Problem of Creolization	135	(18)
Rinaldo Walcott
Loss in Present Terms: Reading the Limits of Post-Dictatorship Argentina's National Conciliation	153	(34)
Mario Di Paolantonio
Beyond Reconciliation: Memory and Alterity in Post-Genocide Rwanda	187	(26)
Jody Ranck
Relearning Questions: Responding to the Ethical Address of Past and Present Others	213	(18)
Claudia Eppert
Bibliography	231	(16)
Index	247	(8)
About the Editors and Contributors	255