Description
Book SynopsisHow and why war and military culture have a traumatic impact on families and memory
Trade Review“By making the figure of the child central to the story of this book, the author charts out a dazzling path showing us how to draw lines of connection between the routine violence of a militarization and the routine if bewildering violence of the home. There is no easy way to describe how the voice of the child left me wounded even as I say how grateful I am for the author’s courage and restraint.”
—Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Frank and Sally
3.The Hole Things Fall Into
4. Forgetting and Re-membering Interlude I: On the Event without a Witness
5. Re-membering II Interlude II : On Bearing Witness
6. If I Should Die before I Wake Interlude III : On Bearing Witness to the Process of Witnessing
7. The Pasts We Repeat I: Margaret Interlude IV : The Uncanny Return
8. The Pasts We Repeat II : Jenny
9. If Our First Language Is the Silence of Complicity, How Do We Learn to Speak?
10. The Work of War Interlude V: On the Violence of Nations in the Violence of Homes
11. Toward Re-membering a Future
12. The Work of Love
13. Conclusion
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