Forms of kinship and remembrance in the aftermath of the Great War

Winter, Jay

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511599644.004

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“…38 Frank Falla, as an agent of memory, had done his best, 20 years after the German occupation, to re-awaken public memory of the suffering of his friends and "fictive kin." 39 As a journalist, Falla was able to get publicity for his cause in the local papers. When compensation was successfully obtained, he ensured that it made front page news on August 23, 1965 in the Guernsey Star and the Guernsey Evening Press.…”

Section: The Impervious Membrane Of the Taboo 1945-1995mentioning

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“Have you been offended?” Holocaust memory in the Channel Islands at HMD 70

Carr

2015

Holocaust Studies

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The Channel Islands have experienced great difficulty in coming to terms with the Holocaust given the implication of the local authorities in the registration of the islands' Jewish population during the German occupation. While the situation in Jersey began to change in the 1990s due to the actions of the island's leadership, the issue is still taboo in Guernsey today. Taking a historical approach, this paper addresses the power of that taboo at the time of Holocaust Memorial Day 2015, proposing the concept of the "incremental memory event" as a way of understanding the differences in memory in both islands.

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Section: The Impervious Membrane Of the Taboo 1945-1995mentioning

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“Have you been offended?” Holocaust memory in the Channel Islands at HMD 70

Carr

2015

Holocaust Studies

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“…Whilst the ÔrawÕ ontological content of an event and its context may appear to suggest the fact or shape of its remembrance, the labour and resources of actors (individual or group) are integral to an eventÕs passage into, and continuation in, memory (for example, Winter 2000). At the same time, those actors are always socially located: they script the past according to available interpretive resources, remember in relation to the memories of other individuals and groups (complementary and contradictory), and draw on and employ vehicles and technologies of memory that exist in the present (Winter & Sivan 2000, pp.…”

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“Night fell on a different world”: experiencing, constructing and remembering 9/11

Holland

Jarvis

2014

Critical Studies on Terrorism

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This article explores the endurance of the pervasive framing of Ô9/11Õ as a moment of temporal rupture within the United States. It argues this has persisted despite the existence of plausible competitor narratives for two reasons. First, because it resonated with public experiences of the events predating this constructionÕs discursive sedimentation. And, second, because of its vigorous defence by successive US administrations. In making these arguments this article seeks to extend relevant contemporary research in three ways. First, by reflecting on new empirical material drawn from the Black smoke billowed up from the Pentagon. Airplane wreckage smoldered on a Pennsylvania field. Friends and neighbors, sisters and brothers, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters Ð they were taken from us with a heartbreaking swiftness and cruelty. And on September 12, 2001, we awoke to a world in which evil was closer at hand, and uncertainty clouded our future. In the decade since, much has changed for Americans. WeÕve known war and recession, passionate debates and political divides. We can never get back the lives that were lost on that day or the Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars that followed (Obama, 2011). This presentation of September 11th as a tragic and unforeseen bringer of a new, fallen, world will be instantly familiar to followers of US political rhetoric throughout the decade since those attacks. Augmented, on this occasion, by related remembrance activities including ceremonies at the four crash sites, the ringing of New YorkÕs ÔBell of HopeÕ, and the televised reading of victimsÕ names, ObamaÕs remarks contribute to the reinforcement of 9/11Õs now relatively uncontested status as both exceptional event and temporal rupture. Once more are the attacks positioned here as unforeseen, unpredicted; an event almost, if not entirely, sui generis. Once more, moreover, are they positioned as a marker of transition to a present of evil and uncertainty radically incommensurate with the immediate past.This very specific, but particularly widespread temporal positioning of the events of 11 September 2001 has, unsurprisingly, attracted much academic commentary. Within this, a great deal of attention has been paid to three questions in particular. First, how was Ô9/11Õ produced in this way within political language, popular culture and other discursive activities (Collins and Glover

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“…44 State-run veterans' organizations are something different to veterans' associations. [Gary Baines]: While I agree that the study of formal veterans' associations is instructive for understanding their part in politicking and the dynamics between groups, Winter has noted that at the interface of formal organizations of civil society and informal networks of family and kin there exist what he has termed 'fictive kinships' such as veteran networks 45. Such networks operate in the 'real world', as well as in cyberspace.…”

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