Civil War and Narrative

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.