Between Hope and Despair: Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical TraumaRoger 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 |
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