Against Remembrance

Author: David Rieff

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Price : 19.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780522858600
Publisher : Melbourne University Press
Imprint : Melbourne University Press
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Weight (g) : 0.147
Publication date : 01 April 2011
Dimensions : 198mm X 134mm X 14mm
Produced in : Australia
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Author : David Rieff
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In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and at its worst, how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hatreds, violence and wars. The slaughter Rieff witnessed in Bosnia forever poisoned the idea of remembrance for him. This book, he writes, is a product of that alarm.

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David Rieff is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. His memoir of his mother Susan Sontag's final illness Swimming in a Sea of Death, was published in January 2008.