Shadows of War

A Social History of Silence in the Twentieth Century

By: Efrat Ben-Ze’ev (Editor), Ruth Ginio (Editor), Jay Winter (Editor)

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Hardcover | 25 February 2010

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Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores how different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silences that have followed violence in twentieth-century Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These essays show that silence is a powerful language of remembrance and commemoration and a cultural practice with its own rules. This broad-ranging book discloses the universality of silence in the ways we think about war through examples ranging from the Spanish Civil War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the Armenian Genocide and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Bringing together scholarship on varied practices in different cultures, this book breaks new ground in the vast literature on memory, and opens up new avenues of reflection and research on the lingering aftermath of war.

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"...Shadows of War is worth reading..." -Matthew B. Holmes, Military Review
"This collection of essays provides an innovative contribution to broadening the evaluation of silence as cultural practice by analyzing it across different conflict zones where memory is contested and history is troubled." -Angus Mitchell, Canadian Journal of History
"Shadows of War assembles well-written essays of a consistently high standard. It goes a considerable way towards achieving its goal of shifting the focus away from the prevalent remembering-versus-forgetting binary towards an appreciation of what we might see as an intermediate position of silence. That is no mean feat." -Bill Niven, European History Quarterly

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Warfare & Defence Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Military History Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History

Framing the Problem: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches:
Thinking about silence
The social sound of silence: toward a sociology of denial
Europe:
Breaking the silence? Memory and oblivion since the Spanish Civil War
In the ashes of disgrace: guilt versus shame revisited
On silence, madness, and lassitude: negotiating the past in post-war West Germany
Africa:
Silences on state violence during the Algerian War of Independence: France and Algeria, 1962-2007
African silences: negotiating the story of France's colonial soldiers, 1914-2009
Now that all is said and done: reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
The Middle East:
Facing history: denial and the Turkish national security concept
Imposed silences and self-censorship: Palmach soldiers remember 1948
Forgetting the Lebanon War? On silence, denial and the selective remembrance of the 'First' Lebanon war
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