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Title Memory and postwar memorials : confronting the violence of the past / edited by Marc Silberman and Florence Vatan
Published [Basingstoke] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in European culture and history
Studies in European culture and history.
Contents 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 Schlgel -- 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; Genevieve Zubrzycki -- 6. Grievability and the Politics of Visibility: The Photography of Francesc Torres and the Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War; Ofelia Ferr̀n -- 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
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Memorialization.
Atrocities -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
War and society -- History -- 20th century
Collective memory.
commemorations (events)
General & world history -- 20th century.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 -- 20th century.
Political oppression & persecution -- 20th century.
Violence in society -- 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
History.
Collective memory
Memorialization
War and society
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Silberman, Marc, editor
Vatan, Florence, editor
ISBN 9781137343529
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