Disturbing Pasts

Leon Wainwright is Reader in Art History at The Open University, UK

• Introduction: Disturbing pasts: memories, controversies and creativity – Leon WainwrightPart I: Difficult pasts and public space1 Echoes of the Great War: the recordings of African prisoners in the First World War – Annette Hoffmann2 A Riot of Our Own: a reflection on agency – Carol Tulloch3 The exhibition Namibia-Germany: a shared/divided history. Resistance, violence, memory – Clara Himmelheber4 Break! On the unpleasant, the marginal, the taboo and the controversial in Norwegian museums – Liv Ramskjaer5 Making meaning from a fragmented past: 1897 and the creative process – Peju Layiwola6 Mallaby's car: colonial subjects, imperial actors and the representation of human suffering in postcolonial exhibitions – Susan LegênePart II: Visual investigations7 Comments on the art and research project 'The division of the earth: tableaux on the legal synopses of the Berlin Africa conference' – Dierk Schmidt and Malte Jaguttis8 Late photography, military landscapes and the politics of memory – Simon Faulkner9 Forced displacement, suffering and the aesthetics of loss – Maruška Svašek10 Nuclear war as false memory – John TimberlakePart III: Collaborations11 Spatial dialogues and the memory of absent Jews in contemporary Polish art: Yael Bartana, Rafal Betlejewski and Joanna Rajkowska – Uilleam Blacker12 Margit Ellinor: forgotten images – Bente Geving13 Assimilating the wild and primitive: Lajla and other Sami heroines in Norwegian fin-de-siecle photography – Sigrid Lien14 Troubled traces: painting and displaying intercultural traumas of Aboriginality – Heather Kamarra Shearer15 Empowering art: reconfiguring narratives of trauma and hope in the Australian national imaginary – Fiona MagowanIndex