ISBN:
9780511676178
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 223 Seiten)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.66
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte 1900-2000
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Geschichte
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War and society / History / 20th century
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Gesellschaft
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Krieg
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Schweigen
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Krieg
;
Gesellschaft
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Schweigen
;
Geschichte 1900-2000
Abstract:
Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores how different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silences that have followed violence in twentieth-century Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These essays show that silence is a powerful language of remembrance and commemoration and a cultural practice with its own rules. This broad-ranging book discloses the universality of silence in the ways we think about war through examples ranging from the Spanish Civil War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Armenian Genocide and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Bringing together scholarship on varied practices in different cultures, this book breaks new ground in the vast literature on memory, and opens up new avenues of reflection and research on the lingering aftermath of war
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511676178
URL:
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