Physical Description
xviii, 252 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction: After the violence: memory / Florence Vatan and Marc Silberman Part I. Competing memories
The Nuremberg trials as Cold War competition: the politics of the historical record and the international stage / Francine Hirsch
The Cube on Red Square: a memorial for the victims of twentieth-century Russia / Karl Schlogel
Reactive memory: the Holocaust and the flight and expulsion of Germans / Bill Niven
Beyond Auschwitz? Europe's terrorscapes in the age of postmemory / Rob van der Laarse
Part II. Staging memory
Narrative shock and Polish memory remaking in the twenty-first century / Genevieve Zubrzycki
Grievability and the politics of visibility: the photography of Francesc Torres and the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War / Ofelia Ferran
Doing memory in public: postapartheid memorial space as an activist project / Robyn Autry
Mnemonic objects: forensic and rhetorical practices in memorial culture / Laurie Beth Clark
Part III. Re-membering memory
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
Paradoxes of remembrance: dissecting France's "Duty to memory" / Richard J. Golsan
After-words: lessons in memory and politics / Marc Silberman.
Other Authors/Editors
Silberman, Marc, 1948- editor.
Vatan, Florence, editor.
ISBN
9781137343512
1137343516
9781349465743
1349465747
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-244) and index.
Introduction: After the violence: memory / Florence Vatan and Marc Silberman Part I. Competing memories -- The Nuremberg trials as Cold War competition: the politics of the historical record and the international stage / Francine Hirsch -- The Cube on Red Square: a memorial for the victims of twentieth-century Russia / Karl Schlogel -- Reactive memory: the Holocaust and the flight and expulsion of Germans / Bill Niven -- Beyond Auschwitz? Europe's terrorscapes in the age of postmemory / Rob van der Laarse -- Part II. Staging memory -- Narrative shock and Polish memory remaking in the twenty-first century / Genevieve Zubrzycki -- Grievability and the politics of visibility: the photography of Francesc Torres and the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War / Ofelia Ferran -- Doing memory in public: postapartheid memorial space as an activist project / Robyn Autry -- Mnemonic objects: forensic and rhetorical practices in memorial culture / Laurie Beth Clark -- Part III. Re-membering memory -- 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 -- Paradoxes of remembrance: dissecting France's "Duty to memory" / Richard J. Golsan -- After-words: lessons in memory and politics / Marc Silberman.
