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A series of international case studies examine forms of war memory and commemoration, highlighting the relations of power that structure the ways in which wars can be remembered.

In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.

This volume explores the cultural importance of concepts and theories of memory. Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, it examines the importance of memory in cultural history.

A series of international case studies examine forms of war memory and commemoration, highlighting the relations of power that structure the ways in which wars can be remembered.

This book gives voice to Japanese men and women, and to the British who have worked for non-Westeners in the West. A significant and timely analysis of the influence of non-Western companies in the city.

This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of case-studies explore traditions and myths that shape our environmental thought.

Analysing Stasi files and interviews with one time informers, the author examines the confrontation with this legacy in united Germany. She discusses the daily machinations of the state and the motivation and justification of being an informer.

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia to embark on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. This volume focuses on the experience of this journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society.

A collection of essays by international academics in social sciences and the humanities which examines how far the expectations and forms of genre shape different kinds of autobiography and influence the messages they convey. Contributors look at the problem of genre definition and how the evolution of genre as a concept can be traced.

This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.

Narrative and Genre presents exciting new debates in an emerging field, where international academics from a plethora of disciplines examine the conventions and restrictions of language and genre and how they influence our communication.

This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.