Title Memory and political change / edited by Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt

Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) Series Palgrave Macmillan memory series Contents Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: Remembrance as a Human Right; J. Winter -- Introduction; A. Assmann & L. Shortt -- PART I: TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION -- Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss; G. Schwab -- The Emotional Legacy of the Nazi Past in Post-War Germany; G. Brockhaus -- PART II: INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE -- To Remember or to Forget: Which Way out of a Shared History of Violence? A. Assmann -- Between Pragmatism, Coercion and Fear: Chosen Amnesia after the Rwandan Genocide; S. Buckley-Zistel -- From Domestic to International Instruments for Dealing with a Violent Past: Causes, Concomitants and Consequences for Democratic Transitions; B. Weiffen -- PART III: RE-IMAGINING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE -- Re-Imagining East Germany in the Berlin Republic: Jana Hensel, GDR Memory and the Transitional Generation; L. Shortt -- South African Transition in the Literary Imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu; M. Reif-Huelser -- 'That's Not a Story I Could Tell': Commemorating the Other Side of the Colonial Frontier in Australian Literature of Reconciliation; A. Schwarz -- PART IV: RESISTANCE TO CHANGE -- Deep Memory and Narrative Templates: Conservative Forces in Collective Memory; J.V. Wertsch -- The 'Myth' of the Self: The Georgian National Narrative and Quest for 'Georgianness'; N. Batiashvili -- Memory across Cultures; A.H. Gutchess & M. Siegel -- Index Introduction -- Part I. Transgenerational transmission. Replacement children: the transgenerational transmission of traumatic loss; the emotional legacy of the Nazi past in post-war Germany -- Part II. Instruments of change. To remember or to forget: which way out of a shared history of violence?; between pragmatism, coercion and fear: chosen amnesia after the Rwandan genocide; from domestic to international instruments for dealing with a violent past: causes, concomitants and consequences for democratic transitions; -- Part III. Re-imagining the past for the future. Re-imagining East Germany in the Berlin Republic; GDR memory and the transitional generation; South African transition in the literary imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu; commemorating the other side of the colonial frontier in Australian literature of reconciliation -- Part IV. Resistance to change. Deep memory and narrative templates: conservative forces in collective memory; the myth of the self: the Georgian national narrative and guest for Georgianness; memory across cultures Summary While it is well-known that memory is open to constant changes and transformations, this book adopts an innovative approach, emphasizing memory's role as a powerful agent of change. While political systems may change comparatively quickly, the social and cultural processes of adaptation and transformation take considerably longer. This volume explores memory as both a medium of and an impediment to change, offering an inroad into the problems, mechanisms and patterns involved in the complex processes that accompany the transition from authoritarian to democratic structures. Written by authors from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, the essays chart the terrain andsupply well-documented case studiesto extend knowledge on the relationship between social and political memory and the transition process Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Subject Regime change -- Case studies Memory -- Political aspects -- Case studies Collective memory -- Political aspects -- Case studies Political violence -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies Democratization -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies Regime change in literature Democratization in literature Political violence in literature. Memory in literature. Collective memory in literature. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. Collective memory in literature Memory in literature Memory -- Political aspects Political violence in literature Political violence -- Psychological aspects Regime change Kollektives Gedächtnis Politischer Wandel Politischer Wandel. Kollektives Gedächtnis. Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book Author Assmann, Aleida Shortt, Linda ISBN 9780230354241 0230354246

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