In Defence of Forgetting

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 3
4. Healing Through Culture 9
5. Ecological Amnesia 21
6. Climate Tales 31
7. Making Ruins 39
8. Timothy Findley’s The Wars 49
9. Echoes Across Generations 57
10. Reconciliation Pole 65
11. First Light 77
12. Corroboration 85
13. Ships at Sea 87
14. Constructed Futures 97
15. Artistic Silhouettes 105
16. Material Past 113
17. Critical Periods and Early Experience 121
18. Releasing Trauma 129
19. A Fishy Story 139
20. Reconstructing the Past 147
21. Documents of Dissent 155
22. Anthems 165
23. In Defence of Forgetting 173
24. Monuments in Stone and Colour 181
25. Microcosmos 189
26. Time, Oral Tradition, and Technology 197
27. Global 1918 207
28. Reweaving the Past 217
29. The Digital Shoebox 225
30. Indigenous Storytelling 233
31. Self, Lost and Found 243
32. Contributors 251