Trans-Generational Memory
Narratives of World Wars in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2642540 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tetsuya Sakai (0000-0001-8481-1799, University of Bristol, corresponding author), Tomoko Sakai (University of Bristol) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 187-195 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Research Online (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7804 • E-ISSN: 1360-7804 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5153/sro.2045 |
| OpenAlex | W2112505637 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 20 |
People situate their personal lives in a macro history through crafting trans-generational narratives. Trans-generational historical narrative is simultaneously about personal micro interactions and emotions, and about the large process of macro history. It lies between 'small' and 'big' narrative spheres and plays an important role in the formation of the ethnic, national and cultural identities of individuals. By examining carefully this type of autobiography, collective social experience and large cause-effect relationships in social processes that are beyond personal will and control can be explored. This is what Charles Tilly encourages narrative researchers to do. This paper analyses World War stories told by two persons living in post-conflict Northern Ireland who were born after the end of the Second World War. It shows that the World War experiences of the storytellers' parents or ancestors, and the storytellers' own experiences during and after the conflict, are interwoven to form a macro historical consciousness. In these narratives, the past is evoked to become a basis for the storyteller's life to be re-interpreted. These are narrative practices in which an individual becomes a historical subject by telling his or her own life: in one sense, becoming subject to the macro memory framework, and in another sense, becoming a subject of the practice of crafting history
Aesthetics · Art · Biography · Collective memory · Consciousness · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Gender Studies · History · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology
Memory, Narrative, Identity
Actual Minds, Possible Worlds
History and memory in modern Ireland
Dividing Ireland
Social theory and the politics of identity
Memories of mother
Charting the narrative unconscious
On Experience, Memory, and Knowing
Symbolic mirrors
Material Conflicts
Who fears to speak
Ireland and the Great War
Out of the shadows of history and memory
Autobiographical Time
Autobiographical Remembering as Cultural Practice
Remembering and Forgetting
The Narrative Construction of Reality
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |