Recalling the Hunger Winter

Evoking famine memory beyond the national

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12905409
AutoresIngrid J J De Zwarte (0000-0003-3675-5635, Wageningen University & Research, autor de correspondencia), Lindsay Janssen (0000-0002-0098-7939, Radboud University Nijmegen)
Año2022
Volumen17
Número2
Páginas213-227
Fecha de publicación2022-10-07
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMemory Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1750-6980 • E-ISSN: 1750-6999
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/17506980221126603
OpenAlexW4303411454
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas32

This article seeks to demonstrate how hunger legacies function as connecting vectors in later times. By investigating the comparative uses of memory in Dutch newspapers in the period 1945–1995, it reveals how recollections of the Dutch ‘Hunger Winter’ of 1944–1945 were evoked to make sense of current episodes of hunger, as well as to stimulate political and societal engagement among readers with famines across the world. In so doing, the article shows how memories of the Dutch famine were placed in larger transnational discourses of suffering, experienced by other oppressed and war-stricken communities, ultimately making the Hunger Winter a benchmark for understanding famine, deprivation and humanitarianism. Crucially, this article stresses the need to move beyond national paradigms in the study of famine memory, thereby allowing for a better understanding of the transnational workings of memory

Aesthetics · Famine · Media studies · Newspaper · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis