Trauma and Public Memory [electronic resource] /
Goodall, J.editor.
Lee, C.editor.
This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Overviews; 1 'But Why Should You People at Home Not Know?': Sacrifice as a Social Fact in the Public Memory of War; 2 Trauma, Dispossession and Narrative Truth: 'Seeds of the Nation' of South Sudan; 3 Trauma and the Stoic Foundations of Sympathy; 4 Unremembered: Memorial, Sentimentality, Dislocation; Part II: Interviews; 5 Interview with Ross Anderson, Clinical Psychologist; 6 Interview with Therese Lee, Specialist in Emergency and Retrieval Nursing
7 Interview with Norman Fry, Disaster Co-ordinator for the Toowoomba Regional Council at the Time of the 2011 Floods8 Interview with Councillor Tanya Milligan, Chair of Human and Social Response Committee Following the Lockyer Valley Floods in South East Queensland, and Sue Hewitt, Senior Recovery Officer; 9 Interview with Mark Willacy, Foreign Correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; Part III: Reflections; 10 Unburied Trauma and the Exhumation of History: An American Genealogy; 11 The Atrocity Tour; 12 Regaining Lost Humanity: Dealing with Trauma in Exile
13 Popular Entertainments as Survival Strategies in Prisoner-of-War Camps During World War II14 A Soldier's Perspective on Serving in Iraq and Afghanistan; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas.
Historiography.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Sociology.
Communication.
Social groups.
Family.
Environmental sociology.
Memory Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Sociology, general.
Media Studies.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Environmental Sociology.