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| Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity | | | Author: | Stuart McLean | | ISBN: | 0804744394 | | Format: | Handover | | Publish Date: | June, 2005 | | |  |  |  | | | | | | | Book Review | | | |
Book Description
"The Event and its Terrors" undertakes a critical reimagining of one of the major events of Irish history—the Great Famine of the 1840s—and of its subsequent legacies. Drawing on a wide range of sources, past and present, it considers the emergence of the Famine as an object of historical knowledge and controversy with reference both to the experience of modernity and to the production of academic and nationalist histories in colonial and post-independence Ireland. In doing so, it explores the possibility of alternative modes of engagement with the past via contemporary eyewitness accounts, oral histories, literature, folklore, and present-day commemorative events.
About the Author
Stuart McLean is Lecturer in Anthropology at Columbia University.
Event and Its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity SYNOPSIS McLean (anthropology and global studies, U. of Minnesota) looks at how publicly enacted signifiers of social memory become embedded in an imagined past from which the present both emerged and struggles to free itself. The Great Famine of the 1840s is his example. The study served as his Ph.D. dissertation in anthropology for Columbia University in 1999. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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