Pandemic re-awakenings : the forgotten and unforgotten 'Spanish' flu of 1918-1919 /
'Pandemic Re-Awakenings' offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers present original perspectives by critical...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu of 1918-1919
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Editor's Note
- Preface: History, Memory and the Flu
- Introduction: The Great Flu between Remembering and Forgetting
- Coming to Terms with the Pandemic
- Historiographical Neglect
- Overshadowing
- Social Forgetting and Cultural Forgetting
- Part I: Personal Histories
- 1: Remembering the 'Forgotten' Pandemic: Richard Collier's Collection of Personal Testimonies
- 2: Pandemic Death, Response and Memory in Non-European Societies
- Memory of the Pandemic
- Tropical Africa
- The Pacific
- Conclusion
- 3: The Silence of the Survivors: Why Did Survivors of the 'Spanish' Flu in South Africa Not Talk about the Epidemic?
- 4: 'Above All Else There Was Fear': Memories of the 'Spanish' Flu in São Paulo, Brazil
- The 'Spanish' Flu in São Paulo
- Remembering the Flu
- Memories of an Elderly Lady
- 5: Changing Narratives of 'That' Pandemic: Re-Engaging with Oral Histories for the Centenary of the Great Flu in Ireland
- Part II: Communal Histories
- 6: The Overshadowing of the Memory of 'Spanish' Flu in Poland
- 7: 'When Two Crises Meet Each Other': Remembering 'Spanish' Flu in the Low Countries
- 'Spanish' Flu in the Low Countries
- Remembering the Flu in Non-Fiction and Fiction
- Forgetting the Heart of Darkness
- The Manifold Ways of Forgetting the 'Spanish' Flu
- 8: 'Remember Me to the Folks': Memory, the Great War and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Canada
- The Great War and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Canada
- The Pandemic at Kinmel Park
- Gunner Sidney Moody's Letters Home
- Letters to Mrs Moody: Remembering a 1918 Flu Victim
- Soldier Flu Deaths as War Deaths
- 9: 'The Fell Plague of Last Year': Remembering and Forgetting the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand
- Oral History
- Newspaper Evidence
- Remembering
- Forgetting
- Re-Remembering
- 10: Representation and Remembrance: The 1918-19 Influenza Epidemic in India
- Influenza and the Politics of Colonial Memorialisation
- Memory and Nationhood
- Influenza and the Crisis of Indian Subsistence
- 11: 'The Pneumonic Influenza Is Just Part of My Life': Fostering Community Histories of the 'Spanish' Influenza Pandemic in Australia
- Unexpected Traces
- A Complicated Afterlife
- Forgotten in Ubiquity?
- What Is Worth Remembering
- Part III: Medical Histories
- 12: Pandemic Exchanges: Narrating the 'Spanish' Flu at the Intersection of Science and History
- 'The Virus Writes the Rules'
- 'The Sphinx of Epidemic Diseases'
- 'The Thief in the Night'
- 'The Ferrets Are Sneezing'
- 'All Influenza Epidemics Now Are Pandemics'
- 'Can It Happen Again?'
- "The Field Has Been Well and Truly Tilled."