The memory of catastrophe

Investigates the dynamic relationship between experiences of profound social and cultural disruption and human memory. Critical comparisons are made across a wide variety of catastrophic experiences and memories; not just of war but also of massacre genocide rebellion famine partition shipwreck and fire. The book is an accessible showcase for a wide range of methodological approaches to the study of memory including literary studies cultural studies participant-observation and historical studies and uses a variety of oral visual and written sources. Offers a diverse chronological and geographical range of catastrophic cases from seventeenth-century England to the recent conflicts in the former Yugoslavia from Ireland to the Indian sub-continent from Mexico to wartime Leningrad. Well-written and accessible - a fascinating read.