The promise of violence
The Promise of Violence by Younes Saramifar explores how revolutionaries in Iran have chosen to identify memories of the Iran-Iraq War as their 'collective' memory. They regard this war era as a temporal reference in history—"the time of times", or at times, even "a time beyond time".
Can a sole event and its violence truly become, for some, the all-encompassing, constituting element of history and memory? This book pursues this question, following revolutionaries through the intricate maze of 'collective' memory to offer a temporal account of the breakdown of happenings, as well as the mending of these happenings through the force of remembrance.
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The Promise of Violence by Younes Saramifar explores how revolutionaries in Iran have chosen to identify memories of the Iran-Iraq War as their 'collective' memory. They regard this war era as a temporal reference in history—"the time of times", or at times, even "a time beyond time".
Can a sole event and its violence truly become, for some, the all-encompassing, constituting element of history and memory? This book pursues this question, following revolutionaries through the intricate maze of 'collective' memory to offer a temporal account of the breakdown of happenings, as well as the mending of these happenings through the force of remembrance.
