In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.

1. Introduction 2. Trauma and trauma signals in the narratives of the migration journey of the Ethiopian Jews to Israel Gadi BenEzer, Ben Gurion University, Negev 3. Remembering and forgetting: Guatemalan war-widows' forbidden memories Judith Zur, NWL Mental Health Trust, Guatemala 4. Interviewing in a culture of violence: moving memories from Windemere to Cape Flats Sean Field, University of Cape Town, South Africa 5. Oppression, resistance and imprisonment: A montage of different but similar stories in two countries Jan Coetzee, Rhodes University, South Africa and Otakar Hulec, Oriental Institute Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague 6. The unending war. Social myth, individual memory in the Mississippi Flats Kim Lacy Rogers 8. Containing Violence: Poisoning and guerilla / civilian resistance in the memories of Zimbabwe's liberation wat JoAnne McGregor, University of Reading, UK 9. Naming and claiming. The integration of traumatic experience and the reconstruction of self in survivor's stories of sexual abuse Susan Rose, Dickinson College, Carlisle, USA 10. Trauma, memory, politics: The Irish troubles Graham Dawson

With Graham Dawson, Kim Lacy Rogers, Selma Leydesdorff