Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe -

Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe

Buch | Softcover
248 Seiten
2015
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-917-0 (ISBN)
34,85 inkl. MwSt
The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today's eastern Europe.
The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more “self-critical” memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the past. The increasing dissatisfaction among scholars with the blanket, undifferentiated use of the term “collective memory” is evolving in new directions. This volume brings the tension into focus while addressing the state of memory theory itself.

Eric Langenbacher is a Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Honors and Special Programs in the Department of Government, Georgetown University. He is editor of Between Left and Right: The 2009 Bundestag Election and the Transformation of the German Party System (Berghahn, 2010).

Introduction

Eric Langenbacher, Bill Niven, & Ruth Wittlinger



Chapter 1. Dynamics of Generational Memory: Understanding the East-West Divide

Harald Wydra



Chapter 2. Time-out for National Heroes? Gender as an Analytical Category in the Study of Memory Cultures

Helle Bjerg & Claudia Lenz



Chapter 3. The Memory-Market Dictum: Gauging the Inherent Bias in Different Data Sources Common in Collective Memory Studies

Mark A. Wolfgram



Chapter 4. Remembering WWII in Europe - Structures of Remembrance

Christian Gudehus



Chapter 5. Ach(tung) Europa: German Writers and the Establishment of a Collective Memory of Europe

Hans-Joachim Hahn



Chapter 6. Critiquing the Stranger, Inventing Europe: Integration and the Fascist Legacy

Mark Wagstaff



Chapter 7. The Thread That Binds Together: Lidice, Oradour, Putten, and the Memory of World War II

Madelon de Keizer



Chapter 8. Memory of World War II in France: National and Transnational Dynamics

Henning Meyer



Chapter 9. The Field of the Blackbirds and the Battle for Europe

Anna Di Lellio



Chapter 10. Transformation of Memory in Croatia: Removing Yugoslav Anti-Fascism

Ljiljana Radonic



Chapter 11. German Victimhood Discourse in Comparative Perspective

Bill Niven



Chapter 12. Shaking off the Past? The New Germany in the New Europe

Ruth Wittlinger



Conclusion: A Plea for an “Intergovernmental” European Memory

Eric Langenbacher



Notes on Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 8.4.2015
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Geschichtstheorie / Historik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-78238-917-2 / 1782389172
ISBN-13 978-1-78238-917-0 / 9781782389170
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