edited by Jane Goodall, University of Western Sydney, Australia, Christopher Lee, Griffith University, Australia.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2015
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xii, 231 pages)
SERIES
Series Title
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Introduction; Jane Goodall and Christopher Lee --;PART I: OVERVIEWS --;1.''But Why Should You People at Home Not Know?': Sacrifice as a Social fact in the Public Memory of War; Christopher Lee --;2. Trauma, Dispossession and Narrative Truth: 'Seeds of the Nation' of South Sudan; Wendy Richards --;3. Trauma and the Stoic Foundations of Sympathy; Jane Goodall --;4. Unremembered: Memorial, Sentimentality, Dislocation; Laurie Johnson --;PART II: INTERVIEWS --;5. Ross Anderson, Clinical Psychologist --;6. Therese Lee, Emergency Nursing Specialist --;7. Norman Fry, Disaster Response Co-ordinator, Toowoomba Regional Council --;8. Sue Hewett, Senior Recovery Officer and Tanya Milligan, Chair of Human and Social Response Committee for the Lockyer Valley Council --;9. Mark Willacy, Foreign Correspondent Australian Broadcasting Commission --;PART III: REFLECTIONS --;10. Unburied Trauma and the Exhumation of History: An American Genealogy; Lindsay Tuggle --;11. The Atrocity Tour; Lindsay Barrett --;12. Regaining Lost Humanity: Dealing with Trauma in Exile; Robert Mason and Geoffrey Parkes --;13. Popular Entertainments as Survival Strategies During World War Two; Victor Emeljanow --;14. A Soldier's Perspective; Richard Gehrman.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Disasters -- Case studies.
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Case studies.
Traumatic shock -- Case studies.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HV553
Book number
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E358
2015
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by Jane Goodall, University of Western Sydney, Australia, Christopher Lee, Griffith University, Australia.