War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century

by Edited by Jay Winter , Emmanuel Sivan

• ISBN13: 9780521794367
• ISBN10: 0521794366
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-28
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

How war has been remembered collectively is the central question in this volume. War in the twentieth century is a vivid and traumatic phenomenon which left behind it survivors who engage time and time again in acts of remembrance. This volume, containing essays by outstanding scholars of twentieth-century history, focuses on the issues raised by the shadow of war in this century. The behaviour, not of whole societies or of ruling groups alone, but of the individuals who do the work of remembrance, is discussed by examining the traumatic collective memory resulting from the horrors of the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, the Second World War, and the Algerian War. By studying public forms of remembrance, such as museums and exhibitions, literature and film, the editors have succeeded in bringing together a volume which demonstrates that a popular kind of collective memory is still very much alive.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Inroduction	1	(5)
Setting the framework	6	(34)
Jay Winter
Emmanuel Sivan
Forms of Kinship and remembrance in the aftermath of the Great War	40	(21)
Jay Winter
War, Death, an remembrances in Soviet Russia	61	(23)
Catherine Merridale
Agents of memory: Spanish Civil War veterans and disabled soldiers	84	(20)
Paloma Aguilar
Children as war victims in postwar European cinema	104	(21)
Pierre Sorlin
From survivor to witness: voices from the Shoah	125	(17)
Annette Wieviorka
Landscapes of loss and remembrance: the case of Little Tokyo in Los Angeles Dolores Hayden	142	(19)
Yale University
The algerian War in French collective memory	161	(16)
Antoine Prost
Private pain and public remembrance in Israel	177	(28)
Emmanuel Sivan
Personal narratives and commemoration	205	(16)
Samuel Hynes
Against Consolation: Walter Benjamin and the refusal to mourn	221	(19)
Martin Jay
Index	240