Cultural Representations of Massacre

Cultural Representations of Massacre

Author: Sabrina Parent

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-10

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 1137274972

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In this book, Parent puts together a history of representations of the 1944 mutiny in Senegal. Combining firsthand analysis of the works and their intertextual interactions as well an external perspective, Parent engages with history, literature, film, poetics, and politics and highlights the importance of remembering the past.


Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa

Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa

Author: Mphathisi Ndlovu

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2024-01-29

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 3031398920

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This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book unpacks the influence or role of the global powers in conflict in the Global South. Contributors are grappling with a number of issues such as the politics of memorialization, memory conflicts, exhumations, reburials, historical dialogue, peacebuilding and social healing, memory activism, visual representation, transgenerational transmission of memories, and identity politics.


Geographies of Perpetration

Geographies of Perpetration

Author: Vicente Sánchez-Biosca

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 2021-11-10

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9783631810989

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This book maps cultural representations of Mass Violence from the perpetrators' perspective, spaces where Mass Violence has been exerted and their successive resemantization in collective memories. The chapters examine scenes of political crimes, exploring how the events have been represented and reappropriated for the sake of memory and mourning.


Absent the Archive

Absent the Archive

Author: Lia Brozgal

Publisher: Contemporary French and Franco

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1789622387

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Absent the Archive is the first cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters. This corpus, or anarchive, includes a variety of cultural texts whose formal, diegetic, and discursive strategies represent the massacre and its erasure, its "becoming invisible," and its afterlives as a trace, a memory, a sign.


Theatres of Violence

Theatres of Violence

Author: Philip G. Dwyer

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 0857452991

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Massacres and mass killings have always marked if not shaped the history of the world and as such are subjects of increasing interest among historians. The premise underlying this collection is that massacres were an integral, if not accepted part (until quite recently) of warfare, and that they were often fundamental to the colonizing process in the early modern and modern worlds. Making a deliberate distinction between 'massacre' and 'genocide', the editors call for an entirely separate and new subject under the rubric of 'Massacre Studies', dealing with mass killings that are not genocidal in intent. This volume offers a reflection on the nature of mass killings and extreme violence across regions and across centuries, and brings together a wide range of approaches and case studies.


Absent the Archive

Absent the Archive

Author: Lia Nicole Brozgal

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9781800341289

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'Cultural Traces of a Massacre in Paris' is a cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters.


Absent the Archive

Absent the Archive

Author: Lia Brozgal

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2020-11-04

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 178962262X

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Absent the Archive is the first cultural history devoted to literary and visual representations of the police massacre of peaceful Algerian protesters. This corpus, or anarchive, includes a variety of cultural texts whose formal, diegetic, and discursive strategies represent the massacre and its erasure, its “becoming invisible,” and its afterlives as a trace, a memory, a sign.


The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-01-26

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 0190452129

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Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has emerged as a vibrant field. Edited by three leading cultural sociologists, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology presents the full theoretical and methodological vitality of this critically significant new area.The Handbook gathers together works by authors confronting the crucial choices all cultural sociologists face today: about analytic priorities, methods, topics, epistemologies, ideologies, and even modes of writing. It is a vital collection of preeminent thinkers studying the ways in which culture, society, politics, and economy interact in the world. Organized by empirical areas of study rather than particular theories or competing intellectual strands, the Handbook addresses power, politics, and states; economics and organization; mass media; social movements; religion; aesthetics; knowledge; and health. Allowing the reader to observe tensions as well as convergences, the collection displays the value of cultural sociology not as a niche discipline but as a way to view and understand the many facets of contemporary society. The first of its kind, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology offers comprehensive and immediate access to the real developments and disagreements taking place in the field, and deftly exemplifies how cultural sociology provides a new way of seeing and modeling social facts. "This groundbreaking, readable handbook [is] the first single volume to attempt to unify its diverse contemporary applications in a wide range of traditional genres of sociology...Valuable for college universities and libraries supporting undergraduate and graduate degree programs in sociology and history."-CHOICE


Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture

Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture

Author: Barbara Korte

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-03-27

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 0429557841

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Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research void and brings together case studies by scholars from different parts of the world and diverse fields. They explore how transnational and transcultural processes of translation and adaptation shape notions of the heroic in non-Western and Western cultures alike. The book provides fresh perspectives on heroism studies and offers a new angle for global and postcolonial studies.


Beyond Collective Memory

Beyond Collective Memory

Author: Cullen Goldblatt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-14

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1000195201

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Beyond Collective Memory analyzes how two African places became icons of collective memory for certain publics, yet remain marginal to national and continental memory discourses. Thiaroye, a Senegalese location of colonial-era massacre, and District Six, a South African neighborhood destroyed under apartheid, have epitomized a shared "memory" of racist violence and resistant community. Analyzing diverse cultural texts surrounding both places, this book argues that the metaphor of collective memory has obscured the structural character of colonial and apartheid violence, and made it difficult to explore the complicit positions that structures of violence produce. In investigating the elisions of memory discourses, Beyond Collective Memory challenges the dominance of collective memory, and calls attention to the African pasts, metaphors, and imaginaries that exist beyond it.