Pandemic Re-Awakenings

The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu of 1918-1919
Herausgeber: Beiner, Guy

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Produktbeschreibung

A multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers chart the worldwide historiographical neglect and silences, and trace vestiges of social and cultural memories of this pandemic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 165mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 796g
• ISBN-13: 9780192843739
• ISBN-10: 0192843737
• Artikelnr.: 62311551

Autorenporträt

Guy Beiner is a professor of modern history at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who specializes in the history of remembering and forgetting. He holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland and was a Government of Ireland Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, as well as a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, a Government of Hungary Scholar at the Central European University, a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Burns Scholar at Boston College. His books on social memory/forgetting and folk history have won multiple international awards.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface: History, Memory, and the Flu
* Introduction: The Great Flu between Remembering and Forgetting
* PART I: PERSONAL HISTORIES
* 1: Hannah Mawdsley: Remembering the 'Forgotten' Pandemic: Richard
Collier's Collection of Personal Testimonies
* 2: David Killingray: Burdens of Grief and Fractured Communities:
Personal Memories and Communal Responses to the Influenza Pandemic of
1918-19 in Non-Literate Societies
* 3: Howard Phillips: The Silence of the Survivors: Why Did South
African Survivors of the 'Spanish' Flu Epidemic Not Talk About It?
* 4: Claudio Bertolli Filho: 'Above all else there was fear':
Recollections of the 'Spanish' Flu in São Paulo, Brazil
* 5: Ida Milne: Changing Narratives of 'That' Pandemic: Re-Engaging
with Oral Histories for the Centenary of the Great Flu in Ireland
* PART II: COMMUNAL HISTORIES
* 6: Lukasz Mieszkowski: The Overshadowing of the Memory of 'Spanish'
Flu in Poland
* 7: Utz Thimm: 'When two crises meet each other': Remembering
'Spanish' Flu in the Low Countries
* 8: Kandace Bogaert with Mark Humphries: 'Remember me to the folks':
The Great War and the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Canada
* 9: Geoffrey W. Rice: 'The Fell Plague of Last Year': Remembering and
Forgetting the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand
* 10: David Arnold: Representation and Remembrance: The 1918-19
Influenza Epidemic in India
* 11: Peter Hobbins: 'The pneumonic influenza is just part of my life':
Fostering Community Histories of the 'Spanish' Influenza Pandemic in
Australia
* PART III: MEDICAL HISTORIES
* 12: Mark Honigsbaum: Pandemic Exchanges: Narrating the 'Spanish' Flu
at the Intersection of Science and History
* 13: Jeffrey S. Reznick: The Past, Present, and Future of Memory:
Medical Histories of the 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic in the United
States
* 14: E. Thomas Ewing: The 'Ispanka' in Historical Context: The 1918
Influenza Epidemic in the Soviet Union
* 15: Robert Peckham: 'Huge but Unknown': China in the Memory of the
1918-19 Influenza Pandemic
* PART IV: CULTURAL HISTORIES
* 16: Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr.: Pandemics and Comparative Forgetfulness:
The Great Influenza and the Black Death
* 17: Steffen Bruendel: Between the Great War and the Great Flu: The
1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic and the Contemporary Avant-Garde
* 18: Cynthia Gabbay: Traces in the Archive of a Great Oblivion:
Ibero-American Representations of the 'Spanish' Flu
* 19: Nancy K. Bristow: The Practices of Social Forgetting: Rewriting,
Obscuring, and Silencing the 1918 Influenza Epidemic in the United
States
* Conclusion: Rediscovering the Great Flu, between Pre-forgetting and
Post-forgetting
* Afterword: The Great Flu and Modern Memory