Memory and Postwar Memorials

Confronting the Violence of the Past
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-349-46574-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3455 g

Reihe: Studies in European Culture and History

The twentieth century witnessed genocides, ethnic cleansing, forced population expulsions, shifting borders, and other disruptions on an unprecedented scale. This book examines the work of memory and the ethics of healing in post authoritarian societies that have experienced state-perpetrated violence.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vatan, F.

Silberman, M.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte: Ereignisse und Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – After the Violence: Memory; Florence Vatan and Marc Silberman PART I: COMPETING MEMORIES 1. The Nuremberg Trials as Cold War Competition: The Politics of the Historical Record and the International Stage; Francine Hirsch 2. The Cube on Red Square: A Memorial for the Victims of Twentieth-Century Russia; Karl Schlögel 3. Reactive Memory: The Holocaust and Flight and Expulsion of Germans; Bill Niven 4. Beyond Auschwitz? Europe's Terrorscapes in the Age of Postmemory; Rob van der Laarse PART II: STAGING MEMORY 5. Narrative Shock and Polish Memory Remaking in the Twenty-first Century; Geneviève Zubrzycki 6. Grievability and the Politics of Visibility: The Photography of Francesc Torres and the Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War; Ofelia Ferrán 7. Doing Memory in Public: Post-apartheid Memorial Space as an Activist Project; Robyn Autry 8. Mnemonic Objects: Forensic and Rhetorical Practices in Memorial Culture; Laurie Beth Clark PART III: RE-MEMBERING MEMORY 9. Toward a Critical Reparative Practice in Post-1989 German Literature: Christa Wolf's City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud (2010); Anke Pinkert 10. Paradoxes of Remembrance: Dissecting France's 'Duty to Memory'; Richard J. Golsan 11. After-Words: Lessons in Memory and Politics; Marc Silberman

Über Autor(innen)

Francine Hirsch, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Karl Schloegel, Cultural Studies, Europa Viadrina University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany
Bill Niven, History and Heritage Department, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Robert van der Laarse, History and Cultural Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Geneviève Zubrzycki, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Ofelia Ferrán, Department of Spanish, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA
Robyn Autry, Department of Sociology, Wesleyan University, USA
Laurie Beth Clark, Department of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
Anke Pinkert, Department of German, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Richard Golsan, Department of French, Texas A&M University, USA
Marc Silberman, Department of German, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA