Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of illustrations and tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction: Trauma and life stories SELMA LEYDESDORFF, GRAHAM DAWSON, NATASHA BURCHARDT AND T. G. ASHPLANT -- Case studies -- Trauma signals in life stories GADI BENEZER -- Remembering and forgetting: Guatemalan war widows' forbidden memories JUDITH ZUR -- Interviewing in a culture of violence: moving memories from Windermere to the Cape Flats SEAN FIELD -- Oppression, resistance and imprisonment: a montage ofdifferent but similar stories in two countries JAN COETZEE AND OTAKAR HULEC -- The unending war: social myth, individual memory and the Malvinas FEDERICO LORENZ -- Lynching stories: family and community memory in the Mississippi Delta KIM LACY ROGERS -- Containing violence: poisoning and guerilla/civilian resistance in memories of Zimbabwe's liberation war JOANN MCGREGOR -- Naming and claiming: the integration of traumatic experience and the reconstruction of self in survivors' stories of sexual abuse SUSAN ROSE -- Trauma, memory, politics: the Irish Troubles GRAHAM DAWSON -- Debates and reviews -- Reality or nothing! False and repressed memories and autobiography J. P. ROOS -- Human disaster, social trauma and community memory ARTHUR HANSEN -- Trauma and the long-term life story PAUL THOMPSON -- Review article: Paul Antze and Michael Lambek (eds), Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory TINA PAPOULIAS -- Review article: Elaine Showalter, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Culture SUSANNAH RADSTONE -- Index.