Description: Memories of Mass Repression presents the results of researchers working with the voices of witnesses
Brief description:
Mary Chamberlain is emeritus professor of Caribbean history at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom. In addition, she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a member of the advisory group of the Raphael Samuel History Centre, and a member of the United Kingdom government's Caribbean Advisory Group (1998-2002). She is former editor of the Transaction Memory and Narrative series, which now has over fifteen volumes in print.
Review Quotes:
"[An] essay collection assessing memories of survivors of 20th-century genocides, colonial atrocities, and political repressions as scholarly sources for historical, sociological, and psychological studies of such events. Well-known experts contribute the essays; case studies treat the Bosnian War, Rwanda, the Holocaust (both concentration camp inmates and non-Jewish forced labor), South Africa, French violence in Algeria, a Soviet gulag, and Turkey. All the essays are up to date and show strong awareness of current scholarly concerns in the subfields of survivor testimonies and of historiographical debates over how to write the history of genocides... Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students/faculty."
--S. R. Boettcher, Choice