Civil War and Narrative: Testimony, Historiography, Memory

Description

This book explores the representation of intra-state conflicts. It offers a distinctive approach by looking at narrative forms and strategies associated with civil war testimony, historiography and memory. The volume seeks to reflect current research in civil war in a number of disciplines and covers a range of geographical areas, from the advent of modern forms of testimonies, history writing and public remembering in the early modern period, to the present day. In focusing on narrative, broadly defined, the contributors not only explore civil war testimonies, historiography and memory as separate fields of inquiry, but also highlight the interplay between these areas, which are shown to share porous boundaries. Chapters look at the ways in which various narrative forms feed off each other, be they oral, written or visual narratives, personal or collective accounts, or testimonies from victims or perpetrators. Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii Three Narratives of Civil War: Recurrence, Remembrance and Reform from Sulla to Syria (David Armitage)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Telling Stories, Making Selves: Nostalgia, the Lost Cause, and Postbellum Plantation Memoirs and Reminiscences (David Anderson)....Pages 21-38 Letter to Oneself: Acknowledging Guilt in Post-War Lebanon (Sonja Hegasy)....Pages 39-57 “Irish History Unidealised”: The Politics of Republican Memoir and Narratives of the Defeated and Defiant (Stephen Hopkins)....Pages 59-76 Struggling with Memory: Oral History and Reconciliation in Belfast Communities (Claire Hackett)....Pages 77-90 Narrative-Making and Recording Trauma: Reflections from Northern Ireland (Katy Radford)....Pages 91-105 Front Matter ....Pages 107-107 The Truth of Fiction: Some Stories of the Lebanese Civil Wars (Elisa Adami)....Pages 109-127 Civil Wars and Cinematic Narrative: The Case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009) (Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou)....Pages 129-149 Conflict and Theatre Translation: A Narrative Analysis of Sa:kki (1987) (Dinithi Karunanayake)....Pages 151-171 Front Matter ....Pages 173-173 Revivifying and Reconciling the State: Peace-Making and Narrative Hegemony in Post-Civil-War England, 1646–1647 (Gary Rivett)....Pages 175-190 Civil-War Stories in Lands of Commanded Forgetting: Restoration England and Late Twentieth-Century El Salvador (Matthew Neufeld, Rachel Hatcher)....Pages 191-210 The Syrian War: Irreconcilable Narratives (Stéphane Valter)....Pages 211-228 Back Matter ....Pages 229-242