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Disturbing Remains: Memory, History, and Crisis in the Twentieth Century (Issues & Debates)

Michael Roth

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Description:In Disturbing Remains, ten extraordinary scholars focus on the remembrance and representation of traumatic historical events in the twentieth century. The volume opens with essays by David William Cohen, Veena Das, and Philip Gourevitch. Their reflections on the narratives framing Robert Ouko's death in Kenya, Sikh-Hindu violence in India around the time of Indira Gandhi's assassination, and the 1994 genocide of Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda offer fresh insights into the genesis and aftermath of these tragedies. The next four essays explore the expression of societal disaster in works of art and ritual. Lenin's image, Pablo Picasso's Guernica, balsa figurines of whites made by the Kuna of Panama, and Chinese fertility statuettes after Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward are the subjects taken up by Leah Dickerman, Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Severi, and Jun Jing. Disturbing Remains closes with three essays about the influence of the dead on the construction of shared identity. Istv n R v looks at how Hungarians have dealt with the 1956 revolution and its executed leader, and J rn R sen and Saul Friedl nder contemplate the public memory of the Holocaust in Germany and worldwide.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Disturbing Remains: Memory, History, and Crisis in the Twentieth Century (Issues & Debates). To get started finding Disturbing Remains: Memory, History, and Crisis in the Twentieth Century (Issues & Debates), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In Disturbing Remains, ten extraordinary scholars focus on the remembrance and representation of traumatic historical events in the twentieth century. The volume opens with essays by David William Cohen, Veena Das, and Philip Gourevitch. Their reflections on the narratives framing Robert Ouko's death in Kenya, Sikh-Hindu violence in India around the time of Indira Gandhi's assassination, and the 1994 genocide of Tutsis by Hutus in Rwanda offer fresh insights into the genesis and aftermath of these tragedies. The next four essays explore the expression of societal disaster in works of art and ritual. Lenin's image, Pablo Picasso's Guernica, balsa figurines of whites made by the Kuna of Panama, and Chinese fertility statuettes after Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward are the subjects taken up by Leah Dickerman, Carlo Ginzburg, Carlo Severi, and Jun Jing. Disturbing Remains closes with three essays about the influence of the dead on the construction of shared identity. Istv n R v looks at how Hungarians have dealt with the 1956 revolution and its executed leader, and J rn R sen and Saul Friedl nder contemplate the public memory of the Holocaust in Germany and worldwide.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Disturbing Remains: Memory, History, and Crisis in the Twentieth Century (Issues & Debates). To get started finding Disturbing Remains: Memory, History, and Crisis in the Twentieth Century (Issues & Debates), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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