In the francophone international of the twentieth and early twenty first centuries, collective violence, trauma and mediatization engage with one another. international Wars, wars of independence and decolonization, the Shoa, exile, migration and terrorism reason traumas that are mediatized in textual content and picture, but in addition in commemorative rites, song, the clicking or museums. This quantity presents an research of those media in addition to a presentation of the theoretical framework.

Contains contributions by:

Nathalie Maillard, Montreál (Canada); Richard Rechtman, EHESS, Paris (France); Boris Cyrulnik, Bordeaux (France); Catherine Wermester, Paris I, Sorbonne (France); Rémi Dalisson, Rouen (France); Pierre Schoentjes, Gent (Belgium); Vincent Marie, Nîmes (France); Christian von Tschilschke, Siegen (Germany); Nathalie Piégay, Paris VII, Diderot (France); Peter Kuon, Salzburg (Austria); Dominique Trouche, Toulouse (France); Christian Delage, Institut d’histoire du temps présent, Université Paris VIII (France); Fransiska Louwagie, Leicester (UK); Yoram Mouchenik, Paris XIII (France); Annelise Schulte-Nordholt, Leiden (Netherlands); Esther Kilchmann, Hamburg (Germany); Catherine Milkovitch-Rioux, Clermont-Ferrand (France); Sarah Kouider Rabah, Université Lounici Ali de Blida (Algeria); Nikolaus Müller-Schöll, Frankfurt am major (Germany); Susanne Gehrmann, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany); Olivier Barlet, Paris (France); Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Saarbrücken (Germany); Alexandre Dauge-Roth, Bates collage, Lewiston (USA); Anja Bandau, Hannover (Germany); Thiam Cheikh, Ohio nation collage (USA); Françoise Naudillon, Concordia (Canada); Isaac Bazié, Montréal (Canada); Nicolas Violle, Clermont-Ferrand (France); Isabelle Galichon, Pau/Bordeaux (France)