Pandemic Re-Awakenings : the Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu Of 1918-1919.

A multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers chart the worldwide historiographical neglect and silences, and trace vestiges of s...

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Main Author: Beiner, Guy
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Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2022.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten 'Spanish' Flu of 1918-1919 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Editor's Note -- Preface: History, Memory and the Flu -- Introduction: The Great Flu between Remembering and Forgetting -- Coming to Terms with the Pandemic -- Historiographical Neglect -- Overshadowing -- Social Forgetting and Cultural Forgetting -- Part I: Personal Histories -- 1: Remembering the 'Forgotten' Pandemic: Richard Collier's Collection of Personal Testimonies. 
505 8 |a 2: Pandemic Death, Response and Memory in Non-European Societies -- Memory of the Pandemic -- Tropical Africa -- The Pacific -- Conclusion -- 3: The Silence of the Survivors: Why Did Survivors of the 'Spanish' Flu in South Africa Not Talk about the Epidemic? -- 4: 'Above All Else There Was Fear': Memories of the 'Spanish' Flu in São Paulo, Brazil -- The 'Spanish' Flu in São Paulo -- Remembering the Flu -- Memories of an Elderly Lady -- 5: Changing Narratives of 'That' Pandemic: Re-Engaging with Oral Histories for the Centenary of the Great Flu in Ireland -- Part II: Communal Histories. 
505 8 |a 6: The Overshadowing of the Memory of 'Spanish' Flu in Poland -- 7: 'When Two Crises Meet Each Other': Remembering 'Spanish' Flu in the Low Countries -- 'Spanish' Flu in the Low Countries -- Remembering the Flu in Non-Fiction and Fiction -- Forgetting the Heart of Darkness -- The Manifold Ways of Forgetting the 'Spanish' Flu -- 8: 'Remember Me to the Folks': Memory, the Great War and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Canada -- The Great War and the 1918-19 Influenza Pandemic in Canada -- The Pandemic at Kinmel Park -- Gunner Sidney Moody's Letters Home. 
505 8 |a Letters to Mrs Moody: Remembering a 1918 Flu Victim -- Soldier Flu Deaths as War Deaths -- 9: 'The Fell Plague of Last Year': Remembering and Forgetting the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand -- Oral History -- Newspaper Evidence -- Remembering -- Forgetting -- Re-Remembering -- 10: Representation and Remembrance: The 1918-19 Influenza Epidemic in India -- Influenza and the Politics of Colonial Memorialisation -- Memory and Nationhood -- Influenza and the Crisis of Indian Subsistence. 
505 8 |a 11: 'The Pneumonic Influenza Is Just Part of My Life': Fostering Community Histories of the 'Spanish' Influenza Pandemic in Australia -- Unexpected Traces -- A Complicated Afterlife -- Forgotten in Ubiquity? -- What Is Worth Remembering -- Part III: Medical Histories -- 12: Pandemic Exchanges: Narrating the 'Spanish' Flu at the Intersection of Science and History -- 'The Virus Writes the Rules' -- 'The Sphinx of Epidemic Diseases' -- 'The Thief in the Night' -- 'The Ferrets Are Sneezing' -- 'All Influenza Epidemics Now Are Pandemics' -- 'Can It Happen Again?' 
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