This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas.
List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; Jane Goodall and Christopher Lee PART I: OVERVIEWS 1. ''But Why Should You People at Home Not Know?': Sacrifice as a Social fact in the Public Memory of War; Christopher Lee 2. Trauma, Dispossession and Narrative Truth: 'Seeds of the Nation' of South Sudan; Wendy Richards 3. Trauma and the Stoic Foundations of Sympathy; Jane Goodall 4. Unremembered: Memorial, Sentimentality, Dislocation; Laurie Johnson PART II: INTERVIEWS 5. Ross Anderson, Clinical Psychologist 6. Therese Lee, Emergency Nursing Specialist 7. Norman Fry, Disaster Response Co-ordinator, Toowoomba Regional Council 8. Sue Hewett, Senior Recovery Officer and Tanya Milligan, Chair of Human and Social Response Committee for the Lockyer Valley Council 9. Mark Willacy, Foreign Correspondent Australian Broadcasting Commission PART III: REFLECTIONS 10. Unburied Trauma and the Exhumation of History: An American Genealogy; Lindsay Tuggle 11. The Atrocity Tour; Lindsay Barrett 12. Regaining Lost Humanity: Dealing with Trauma in Exile; Robert Mason and Geoffrey Parkes 13. Popular Entertainments as Survival Strategies During World War Two; Victor Emeljanow 14. A Soldier's Perspective; Richard Gehrman Conclusion Works Cited Index ?
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