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Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2006

Pages: 116-134

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349282418

Full citation:

K. M. Fierke, "Bewitched by the past", in: Memory, trauma and world politics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

Abstract

The twentieth century saw two world wars, the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans and Rwanda, to mention only some of the worst atrocities. As John Wilson notes, the litany of war, civil violence and nuclear attack produced more trauma, mass destruction and death in a limited time frame than any other period in human history.1 Trauma has also become a feature of political discourse, most evident in recent history in the relation to the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon on 11 September 2001.

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Publication details

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Place: Basingstoke

Year: 2006

Pages: 116-134

ISBN (Hardback): 9781349282418

Full citation:

K. M. Fierke, "Bewitched by the past", in: Memory, trauma and world politics, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006