Long Shadows
Long Shadows : Truth, Lies and History Erna Paris,
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0747553998
Edition: Hardcover; 2001
Summary:
Long Shadows offers a personal examination into the shifting terrain
of war and memory that seeks to understand how nations come to terms
with their most painful history. Combining storytelling with
observation, Paris takes the reader on a remarkable journey through
four continents to explore how nations reinvent themselves after
cataclysmic events. She seeks out politicians and powerbrokers, as
well as men and women living in the aftermath of repression, asking
the question: Who gets to decide what actually happened yesterday,
then to propagate the tale? How do people live with the consequences?
Any why is it that many countries cannot lay the past to rest? Her
journey takes her to the United States, with its memories of slavery;
to South Africa, to sit in on a Truth and Reconciliation hearing to
heal the divisions of apartheid; to Japan, to probe the unresolved
struggled for truth in Second World history; to France, still
wrestling with its wartime legacy of collaboration; to Germany, where
ferocious 'memory battles' continue to swirl around the Holocaust;
and to the former Yugoslavia, where she exposes the cynical shaping
of historical memory, and the way the international community
responded to the lethal outcome. Paris takes us directly to the
places of reckoning; she finds hope in the way ordinary people
grapple with defining events of their lives, and in the changing face
of international justice. Long Shadows illuminates the modern world
and makes us question where we stand as individuals in relation to
our own collective histories.
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