Trauma and Public Memory

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-20
‘But Why Should You People at Home Not Know?’: Sacrifice as a Social Fact in the Public Memory of War....Pages 21-36
Trauma, Dispossession and Narrative Truth: ‘Seeds of the Nation’ of South Sudan....Pages 37-51
Trauma and the Stoic Foundations of Sympathy....Pages 52-69
Unremembered: Memorial, Sentimentality, Dislocation....Pages 70-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-86
Interview with Ross Anderson, Clinical Psychologist....Pages 87-93
Interview with Therese Lee, Specialist in Emergency and Retrieval Nursing....Pages 94-102
Interview with Norman Fry, Disaster Co-ordinator for the Toowoomba Regional Council at the Time of the 2011 Floods....Pages 103-108
Interview with Councillor Tanya Milligan, Chair of Human and Social Response Committee Following the Lockyer Valley Floods in South East Queensland, and Sue Hewitt, Senior Recovery Officer....Pages 109-114
Interview with Mark Willacy, Foreign Correspondent with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation....Pages 115-126
Front Matter....Pages 127-129
Unburied Trauma and the Exhumation of History: An American Genealogy....Pages 131-146
The Atrocity Tour....Pages 147-162
Regaining Lost Humanity: Dealing with Trauma in Exile....Pages 163-173
Popular Entertainments as Survival Strategies in Prisoner-of-War Camps During World War II....Pages 174-192
A Soldier’s Perspective on Serving in Iraq and Afghanistan....Pages 193-206
Conclusion....Pages 207-210
Back Matter....Pages 211-231