Memory and postwar memorials : confronting the violence of the past
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Memory and postwar memorials : confronting the violence of the past
（Studies in European culture and history）
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-244) and index
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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.
Table of 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 Schloegel 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 Ferran 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
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