- Summary
- 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. Focusing on global memorialization practices and local specificities, the contributors explore trans-generational encounters, performances, rituals, and diverse forms of remembrance and reconciliation in the aftermath of violent historical events: WWII, the Holocaust and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Stalinism in post-Soviet Russia and Eastern Europe, collaboration in Vichy France, the Civil War in Spain, and apartheid in South Africa.
- Series
- Studies in European culture and history
Studies in European culture and history.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
- Contents
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Introduction: After the violence: memory / Florence Vatan and Marc Silberman Part I. Competing memories
Nuremberg trials as Cold War competition: the politics of the historical record and the international stage / Francine Hirsch
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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-244) and index.
Introduction: After the violence: memory / Florence Vatan and Marc Silberman Part I. Competing memories -- Nuremberg trials as Cold War competition: the politics of the historical record and the international stage / Francine Hirsch -- 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.
