History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from March 2006

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from March 2006

Cemeteries, public memory and Raj nostalgia in postcolonial Britain and India.(British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia)
March 22, 2006... This article examines how, and why, decaying colonial-era European graveyards in India became targeted for conservation starting in the 1970s by the British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia (BACSA). Cemeteries serve as a barometer...

Recent French discourses on Stalinism, Nazism and "exorbitant" Jewish memory.
March 22, 2006... This article analyzes how the perceived problem of a "surfeit" of Jewish memory of the Holocaust in France has emerged in the context of a comparison of Nazism and Stalinism among French historians, journalists and intellectuals in the 1990s....

Mussolini's ghost: Italy's Duce in history and memory.(Benito Mussolini)
March 22, 2006... This article explores the intense debate sparked in Italy by the public broadcast in 1994 of a documentary called Combat Film, featuring footage taken by American soldiers in the closing stages of World War II, including at Milan's Piazzale...

Identity, speculation and history: Adah Isaacs Menken as a case study.
March 22, 2006... This article explores the posthumous writings on Civil War period actress and poet Adah Isaacs Menken in order to examine the intersection of identity politics and the use of historical hearsay in scholarship. It investigates why and how...

Collective remembrance in Jedwabne: unsettled memory of World War II in postcommunist Poland.
March 22, 2006... This article focuses on problems of remembering a painful and still contentious historical past and examines the interaction between remembrance and reconciliation initiatives undertaken by local communities, on the one hand, and...

The Jedwabne village green? The memory and counter-memory of the crime.(World War II)
March 22, 2006... This article is a critical response to the views presented in Ewa Wolentarska-Ochman's article, "Collective Remembrance in Jedwabne: Unsettled Memory of World War II in Postcommunist Poland." In particular, it argues that mythological...

Response to Slawomir Kapralski.
March 22, 2006... I would like to thank Slawomir Kapralski for his response to my article, and I hope both articles will provide a stimulating discussion on the problematics of collective memory. However, a crucial misreading of my views needs addressing. I did...