Remembering Mass Violence
Oral History, New Media and Performance
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2014
- Category
- World, Violence in Society, General
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781442646803
- Publish Date
- Jan 2014
- List Price
- $84.00
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781442614659
- Publish Date
- Jan 2014
- List Price
- $48.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442666597
- Publish Date
- Feb 2014
- List Price
- $38.95
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Description
Remembering Mass Violence breaks new ground in oral history, new media, and performance studies by exploring what is at stake when we attempt to represent war, genocide, and other violations of human rights in a variety of creative works. A model of community-university collaboration, it includes contributions from scholars in a wide range of disciplines, survivors of mass violence, and performers and artists who have created works based on these events.
This anthology is global in focus, with essays on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. At its core is a productive tension between public and private memory, a dialogue between autobiography and biography, and between individual experience and societal transformation. Remembering Mass Violence will appeal to oral historians, digital practitioners and performance-based artists around the world, as well researchers and activists involved in human rights research, migration studies, and genocide studies.
About the authors
Steven High is the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rustbelt, winner of the John Porter Memorial Book Prize and the Albert B. Corey Prize.
Edward Little is a professor in the Department of Theatre at Concordia University.
Thi Ry Duong is the coordinator of the Cambodian Working Group with the Montreal Life Stories Project.