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In this chapter, the editors situate the connection between sites of traumatic events and how they are remembered through narratives, whether that be in oral testimony, writing, film, or memory museums. The volume is in three parts. Part I focuses on spaces that highlight the nexus of politics and traumatic memory; Part II analyses real and imagined spaces of trauma that shape individual and collective memory; and Part III examines narrative forms such as film and journalism that memorialise trauma. Each of the chapters examines traumatic narrative within a different cultural context, together covering cases from around the globe. Across the volume, the central concern is the politics of trauma, that is, whose trauma can be visible, and to what end.
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This volume arose from a symposium held at The University of Queensland in July 2018 with support from the School of Languages and Cultures Strategic Research Fund.
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Hubbell, A.L., Rojas-Lizana, S., Akagawa, N., Pohlman, A. (2020). Acknowledging Trauma in a Global Context: Narrative, Memory and Place. In: Hubbell, A.L., Akagawa, N., Rojas-Lizana, S., Pohlman, A. (eds) Places of Traumatic Memory. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52056-4_1
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