Pandemic Re-Awakenings: The Forgotten and Unforgotten ‘Spanish’ Flu of 1918-1919 Guy Beiner

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎0192657380
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎9780192657381
• Author:  Guy Beiner

Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers 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 present original perspectives by critically investigating the hitherto unexplored vicissitudes of memory in the interrelated spheres of personal, communal, medical, and cultural histories in different national and transnational settings across the globe. The volume reveals how, even though the Great Flu was overshadowed by the commemorative culture of the Great War, recollections of the pandemic persisted over time to re-emerge towards the centenary of the ‘Spanish’ Flu and burst into public consciousness following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters chart historiographical neglect (while acknowledging the often-unnoticed dialogues between scientific and historical discourses), probe silences, and trace vestiges of social and cultural memories that long remained outside of what was considered collective memory.

Table of contents:

1. 1: Remembering the ‘Forgotten’ Pandemic: Richard Collier’s Collection of Personal Testimonies
2. 2: Pandemic Death, Response and Memory in Non-European Societies
3. 3: The Silence of the Survivors: Why Did Survivors of the ‘Spanish’ Flu in South Africa Not Talk
4. 4: ‘Above All Else There Was Fear’: Memories of the ‘Spanish’ Flu in São Paulo, Brazil
5. 5: Changing Narratives of ‘That’ Pandemic: Re-Engaging with Oral Histories for the Center
6. 6: The Overshadowing of the Memory of ‘Spanish’ Flu in Poland
7. 7: ‘When Two Crises Meet Each Other’: Remembering ‘Spanish’ Flu in the Low
8. 8: ‘Remember Me to the Folks’: Memory, the Great War and the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic
9. 9: ‘The Fell Plague of Last Year’: Remembering and Forgetting the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New
10. 10: Representation and Remembrance: The 1918–19 Influenza Epidemic in India
11. 11: ‘The Pneumonic Influenza Is Just Part of My Life’: Fostering Community Histories of the ‘S
12. 12: Pandemic Exchanges: Narrating the ‘Spanish’ Flu at the Intersection of Science and History
13. 13: The Past, Present and Future of Memory: Medical Histories of the 1918–19 Influenza Epidemic
14. 14: The Ispanka in Historical Context: The 1918 Influenza Epidemic in the Soviet Union
15. 15: ‘Huge but Unknown’: China in the Memory of the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic
16. 16: Pandemics and Comparative Forgetfulness: The Great Influenza and the Black Death
17. 17: Between the Great War and the Great Flu: How the Contemporary Avant-Garde Coped with the 1918–
18. 18: Traces in the Archive of a Great Oblivion: Ibero-American Representations of the ‘Spanish’ F
19. 19: The Practices of Social Forgetting: Rewriting, Obscuring and Silencing the 1918 Influenza Epidem

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