Civil War and Narrative: Testimony, Historiography, Memory

Introduction:Three Narratives of Civil War: Recurrence, Remembrance and Reform from Sulla to Syria; David Armitage.- Part I: Narrative through Testimonies.- Telling Stories, Making Selves: Nostalgia, the Lost Cause, and Postbellum Plantation Memoirs and Reminiscences; David Anderson.- Letter to Oneself - Acknowledging Guilt in Post-War Lebanon; Sonja Hegasy.- "Irish History Unidealised": The Politics of Republican Memoir and Narratives of the Defeated and Defiant; Stephen Hopkins.- Struggling with Memory: Oral History and Conflict Resolution in Belfast Communities; Claire Hackett.- Narrative-making and Recording Trauma - Reflections from Northern Ireland; Katy Radford.- Part II: Narrative through the Arts.- The Truth of Fiction - Some Stories of the Lebanese Civil Wars; Elisa Adami.- Civil Wars and Cinematic Narrative: The Case of Psychi Vathia (Deep Soul, Pantelis Voulgaris, 2009); Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou.- Conflict and Theatre Translation: A Narrative Analysis of Saakki (1987); Dinithi Karunanayake.- Part III: Narrative and Agency.- Revivifying and Reconciling the State: Peacemaking and Narrative Hegemony in Post-Civil-War England, 1646-7; Gary Rivett.- Civil-War Stories in Lands of Commanded Forgetting: Restoration England and Late Twentieth-Century El Salvador; Matthew Neufeld and Rachel Hatcher.- The Syrian War: Irreconcilable Narratives; Stéphane Valter.- Conclusion: Oblivion or History: Two different Ways of Coming out of War; Ninon Grangé.- Index