Long shadows : truth, lies, and history
Paris, Erna , 1938-
Long shadows : truth, lies, and history / Erna Paris - 1st U.S. ed - New York : Bloomsbury , 2001, c2000. - xiv, 495 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-479) and index.
Long Shadows offers a personal examination into the shifting terrain of war and memory that seeks to understand how nations come to terms with their most painful history. Combining storytelling with observation, Paris takes the reader on a remarkable journey through four continents to explore how nations reinvent themselves after cataclysmic events. She seeks out politicians and powerbrokers, as well as men and women living in the aftermath of repression, asking the question: Who gets to decide what actually happened yesterday, then to propagate the tale? How do people live with the consequences? Any why is it that many countries cannot lay the past to rest? Her journey takes her to the United States, with its memories of slavery; to South Africa, to sit in on a Truth and Reconciliation hearing to heal the divisions of apartheid; to Japan, to probe the unresolved struggled for truth in Second World history; to France, still wrestling with its wartime legacy of collaboration; to Germany, where ferocious 'memory battles' continue to swirl around the Holocaust; and to the former Yugoslavia, where she exposes the cynical shaping of historical memory, and the way the international community responded to the lethal outcome. Paris takes us directly to the places of reckoning; she finds hope in the way ordinary people grapple with defining events of their lives, and in the changing face of international justice.Long Shadowsilluminates the modern world and makes us question where we stand as individuals in relation to our own collective histories.
9781582341569
2001018445
Holocaust, Jewish----Moral and ethical aspects----1939-1945
History----Modern----Historiography
Genocide
Nationalism----History----20th century
D804.348 / .P38 2001
940.53 PAR
Long shadows : truth, lies, and history / Erna Paris - 1st U.S. ed - New York : Bloomsbury , 2001, c2000. - xiv, 495 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-479) and index.
Long Shadows offers a personal examination into the shifting terrain of war and memory that seeks to understand how nations come to terms with their most painful history. Combining storytelling with observation, Paris takes the reader on a remarkable journey through four continents to explore how nations reinvent themselves after cataclysmic events. She seeks out politicians and powerbrokers, as well as men and women living in the aftermath of repression, asking the question: Who gets to decide what actually happened yesterday, then to propagate the tale? How do people live with the consequences? Any why is it that many countries cannot lay the past to rest? Her journey takes her to the United States, with its memories of slavery; to South Africa, to sit in on a Truth and Reconciliation hearing to heal the divisions of apartheid; to Japan, to probe the unresolved struggled for truth in Second World history; to France, still wrestling with its wartime legacy of collaboration; to Germany, where ferocious 'memory battles' continue to swirl around the Holocaust; and to the former Yugoslavia, where she exposes the cynical shaping of historical memory, and the way the international community responded to the lethal outcome. Paris takes us directly to the places of reckoning; she finds hope in the way ordinary people grapple with defining events of their lives, and in the changing face of international justice.Long Shadowsilluminates the modern world and makes us question where we stand as individuals in relation to our own collective histories.
9781582341569
2001018445
Holocaust, Jewish----Moral and ethical aspects----1939-1945
History----Modern----Historiography
Genocide
Nationalism----History----20th century
D804.348 / .P38 2001
940.53 PAR
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