Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma

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Roger I. Simon, Sharon Rosenberg, Claudia Eppert
Rowman & Littlefield, 2000 - 256 pages
At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is to proceed when what is to be remembered is underscored by a logic difficult to comprehend and subversive of the humane character of existence. This pedagogical attention to practices of remembrance reflects the growing cognizance that hope for a just and compassionate future lies in the sustained, if troubled, working through of these issues.
 

Contents

The Paradoxical Practice of Zakhor Memories of What Has Never Been My Fault or My Deed
5
If the Story Cannot End Deferred Action Ambivalence and Difficult Knowledge
23
Anxiety and Contact in Attending to a Play about Land Mines
55
Standing in a Circle of Stone Rupturing the Binds of Emblematic Memory
71
Never to Forget Pedagogical Memory and SecondGeneration Witness
87
Artifactual Testimonies and the Stagings of Holocaust Memory
113
Pedagogy and Trauma The Middle Passage Slavery and the Problem of Creolization
131
Loss in Present Terms Reading the Limits of PostDictatorship Argentinas National Conciliation
149
Beyond Reconciliation Memory and Alterity in PostGenocide Rwanda
183
Relearning Questions Responding to the Ethical Address of Past and Present Others
209
Bibliography
227
Index
243
About the Editors and Contributors
251
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