Between Hope and Despair

Pedagogy and the Remembrance of Historical Trauma

Contributions by Rachel Baum, Deborah P. Britzman York University and autho, Mario DiPaolantonio, Andrea Liss, Jody Ranck, Julie Salverson, Rinaldo Walcott Edited by Roger I. Simon, Sharon Rosenberg, Claudia Eppert

Publication date:

15 March 2000

Length of book:

264 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780847694624

At the end of a century of unfathomable suffering, societies are facing anew the question of how events that shock, resist assimilation, and evoke contradictory and complex responses should be remembered. Between Hope and Despair specifically examines the pedagogical problem of how remembrance is to proceed when what is to be remembered is underscored by a logic difficult to comprehend and subversive of the humane character of existence. This pedagogical attention to practices of remembrance reflects the growing cognizance that hope for a just and compassionate future lies in the sustained, if troubled, working through of these issues.
This is a book that is at once masterful, disturbing, and passionate. The scholarship is meticulous and the analysis penetrating and insightful. The writers challenge us all to confront the enormity of evil as well as to celebrate the profoundly human impulse for redemption.