Trauma and the memory of politics / Jenny Edkins.

"In this original study, Jenny Edkins explores how we remember traumatic events such as wars, famines, genocides and terrorism, and questions the assumed role of commemorations as simply reinforcing state and nationhood. Taking examples from the World Wars, Vietnam, the Holocaust, Kosovo and Se...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author:	Edkins, Jenny (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Psychic trauma. Memory. Memorials > Psychological aspects. Monuments > Psychological aspects. Bereavement. Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis Bereavement Memorials > Psychological aspects Memory Psychic trauma