Civil war and narrative : testimony, historiography, memory /: testimony, historiography, memory. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Karine Deslandes, Fabrice Mourlon, Bruno Tribout.
• Editors: Deslandes, Karine; Mourlon, Fabrice, 1967-; Tribout, Bruno
• Contents: Introduction:Three Narratives of Civil War: Recurrence, Remembrance and Reform from Sulla to Syria; David Armitage.- Part I: Narrative through Testimonies.- Telling Stories, Making Selves: Nostalgia, the Lost Cause, and Postbellum Plantation Memoirs and Reminiscences; David Anderson.- Letter to Oneself – Acknowledging Guilt in Post-War Lebanon; Sonja Hegasy.- 'Irish History Unidealised': The Politics of Republican Memoir and Narratives of the Defeated and Defiant; Stephen Hopkins.- Struggling with Memory: Oral History and Conflict Resolution in Belfast Communities; Claire Hackett.- Narrative-making and Recording Trauma – Reflections from Northern Ireland; Katy Radford.- Part II: Narrative through the Arts.- The Truth of Fiction – Some Stories of the Lebanese Civil Wars; Elisa Adami.- Civil Wars and Cinematic Narrative: The Case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009); Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou.- Conflict and Theatre Translation: A Narrative Analysis of Saakki (1987); Dinithi Karunanayake.- Part III: Narrative and Agency.- Revivifying and Reconciling the State: Peacemaking and Narrative Hegemony in Post-Civil-War England, 1646-7; Gary Rivett.- Civil-War Stories in Lands of Commanded Forgetting: Restoration England and Late Twentieth-Century El Salvador; Matthew Neufeld and Rachel Hatcher.- The Syrian War: Irreconcilable Narratives; Stéphane Valter.- Conclusion: Oblivion or History: Two different Ways of Coming out of War; Ninon Grangé.- Index .
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.640722; Civil war -- Historiography; Collective memory; War and literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319611792
• Related ISBNs: 9783319611785
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