Trauma and Public Memory
edited by:Goodall, JaneLee, Christopher
- Hampshire Palgrave Macmillan 2015
- xii, 231p.
- Palgrave macmillan memory studies/ Andrew Hoskins and John S .
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This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are realities; they happen in the world, not in the fantasy life of individuals or in the narrative frames of our televisions and cinemas.