Memory and postwar memorials : confronting the violence of the past

General Information

Language
English.
Published
New York, N. Y. : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Physical Description
xviii, 252 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.
Series
Studies in European culture and history.

Contributors

Contributor
Silberman, Marc, 1948- (editor of compilation.)
Vatan, Florence, (editor of compilation.)

Subjects

Subject
Atrocities > Social aspects > History > 20th century.
War and society > History > 20th century.
Crimes against humanity > History > 20th century.
Collective memory.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility
edited by Marc Silberman, Florence Vatan.
Series
Studies in European culture and history
Content
Introduction: After the violence: memory / Florence Vatan and Marc Silberman Part I. Competing memories -- The Nuremberg trials as Cold War competition: the politics of the historical record and the international stage / Francine Hirsch -- The 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.
ISBN
9781137343512
1137343516

Holdings

Item Type Current Location Collection Call Number Volume Info Shelving Location Public Note
BookOSA Archivum LibraryReference collection303.660904 SILReference-

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