Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu of 1918-1919

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Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918–1919
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Editor’s Note
Preface: History, Memory and the Flu
Introduction: The Great Flu between Remembering and Forgetting
	Coming to Terms with the Pandemic
	Historiographical Neglect
	Overshadowing
	Social Forgetting and Cultural Forgetting
Part I: Personal Histories
	1: Remembering the ‘Forgotten’ Pandemic: Richard Collier’s Collection of Personal Testimonies
	2: Pandemic Death, Response and Memory in Non-European Societies
		Memory of the Pandemic
		Tropical Africa
		The Pacific
		Conclusion
	3: The Silence of the Survivors: Why Did Survivors of the ‘Spanish’ Flu in South Africa Not Talk about the Epidemic?
	4: ‘Above All Else There Was Fear’: Memories of the ‘Spanish’ Flu in São Paulo, Brazil
		The ‘Spanish’ Flu in São Paulo
		Remembering the Flu
		Memories of an Elderly Lady
	5: Changing Narratives of ‘That’ Pandemic: Re-Engaging with Oral Histories for the Centenary of the Great Flu in Ireland
Part II: Communal Histories
	6: The Overshadowing of the Memory of ‘Spanish’ Flu in Poland
	7: ‘When Two Crises Meet Each Other’: Remembering ‘Spanish’ Flu in the Low Countries
		‘Spanish’ Flu in the Low Countries
		Remembering the Flu in Non-Fiction and Fiction
		Forgetting the Heart of Darkness
		The Manifold Ways of Forgetting the ‘Spanish’ Flu
	8: ‘Remember Me to the Folks’: Memory, the Great War and the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in Canada
		The Great War and the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic in Canada
		The Pandemic at Kinmel Park
		Gunner Sidney Moody’s Letters Home
		Letters to Mrs Moody: Remembering a 1918 Flu Victim
		Soldier Flu Deaths as War Deaths
	9: ‘The Fell Plague of Last Year’: Remembering and Forgetting the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand
		Oral History
		Newspaper Evidence
		Remembering
		Forgetting
		Re-Remembering
	10: Representation and Remembrance: The 1918–19 Influenza Epidemic in India
		Influenza and the Politics of Colonial Memorialisation
		Memory and Nationhood
		Influenza and the Crisis of Indian Subsistence
	11: ‘The Pneumonic Influenza Is Just Part of My Life’: Fostering Community Histories of the ‘Spanish’ Influenza Pandemic in Australia
		Unexpected Traces
		A Complicated Afterlife
		Forgotten in Ubiquity?
		What Is Worth Remembering
Part III: Medical Histories
	12: Pandemic Exchanges: Narrating the ‘Spanish’ Flu at the Intersection of Science and History
		‘The Virus Writes the Rules’
		‘The Sphinx of Epidemic Diseases’
		‘The Thief in the Night’
		‘The Ferrets Are Sneezing’
		‘All Influenza Epidemics Now Are Pandemics’
		‘Can It Happen Again?’
		‘The Field Has Been Well and Truly Tilled’
		‘America’s Forgotten Pandemic’
		A Time Capsule Called ‘Lucy’
		‘I Had a Little Bird / Its Name Was Enza’
	13: The Past, Present and Future of Memory: Medical Histories of the 1918–19 Influenza Epidemic in the United States
		Documenting the Experience of 1918–19
		Analysing the Experience of 1918–19
		Collecting and Preserving the Experience of 1918–19
		Remembering 1918–19 in the Digital Age
	14: The Ispanka in Historical Context: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in the Soviet Union
		Epidemics in Russia
		Conclusion: The Ispanka in Russian and World History
	15: ‘Huge but Unknown’: China in the Memory of the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic
		China and the Forgotten Pandemic
		Influenza in China
		Avian Influenza and the Afterlife of 1918–19
		Conclusion: The Geopolitics of Remembrance
Part IV: Cultural Histories
	16: Pandemics and Comparative Forgetfulness: The Great Influenza and the Black Death
		Oral Histories
		The Black Death
	17: Between the Great War and the Great Flu: How the Contemporary Avant-Garde Coped with the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic
		The Deceased
		The Convalescent
		The Affected
		The Involved
		The Untouched
		Conclusion
	18: Traces in the Archive of a Great Oblivion: Ibero-American Representations of the ‘Spanish’ Flu
		Expressions and Representations of Forgetting During the Pandemic
		Pre-Forgetting the Pandemic
		Intertextuality and Resignification
		‘Cold Cinders’ and ‘Warm Cinders’ in Retrospective Literature
		Conclusion
	19: The Practices of Social Forgetting: Rewriting, Obscuring and Silencing the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in the United States
	Conclusion: Rediscovering the Great Flu between Pre-Forgetting and Post-Forgetting
	Afterword: The Great Flu and Modern Memory
Index