UID:
almahu_9949383647202882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780429024801
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0429024800
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9780429656149
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0429656149
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9780429658587
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0429658583
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9780429653704
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0429653700
Series Statement:
Memory studies: global constellations
Content:
"This book examines the phenomenon of modern memory as a reaction to total war, an aspiration to truth-seeking provoked by the independent forces of modern war and collective violence which is transnational, or postnational, in character. Using examples from prose and poetry, film and theatre, painting and photography, and music and the popular arts, the author traces a narrative path through the events of the 20th century, defining the tradition of modern memory in terms of its essentially anti-militaristic, anti-war character, as expressed in the manner in which it represents recalled violence and atrocity. Through a series of thematic discussions of two world wars, the Shoah, urbicide and nuclear weapons, Postnational Memory explores the formation of transnational memory, drawing on examples from industrialised societies, with a focus on memory of real events and their reproduction in literature and the arts, often including personal recollections that link the self to the represented past. As such, by asking how the concept of modern memory is constructed through the victims of war and genocide, the book constitutes an alternative to national memories and hegemonic, militarist or ethnocentric histories. Surveying the emergence of new, transnational forms of remembering the past, it will appeal to students and scholars of sociology, memory studies and peace studies, as well as those working in disciplines such as modern and international history, cultural studies and military studies"--
Note:
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of images; Preface: ways of remembering and the role of text; PART 1: Memory and counter-memory; Prologue: a modern memory?; Vignette: Being there -- a Cotswold vignette 'Adlestrop'; Introduction: defining 'modern memory'; 1. A memorable engagement; Vignette: Kennington at Laventie; Vignette: 'The Bradford Pals' -- a community of loss; 2. 'The great sunk silences': the nature of forgetting and the unbearable pain of recall; 3. Memory's new voice; 4. Generations of memory: war booms and memory booms
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5. Strange meetings and cosmopolitan sympathiesVignette: Eugen Gehweiler; Vignette: An espresso memory -- a coffee moment recalled; PART 2: Against forgetting -- retrieving a borderless past; 6. Memory after the 'Shoah'; Vignette: Being there -- Poland, 1988-1996; 7. Airwar and memory; Vignette: A silence; Vignette: 'Bambi' and Belsen: Memories from the Camps; PART 3: Re-writing memory; 8. Beyond amnesia: breaking silences; Vignette: Benicàssim -- raising the ghosts of Castillon de la Plana; 9. A testimony of place; Vignette: Walking the fields of memory: Germany 1994
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France and Flanders, 1988 and 199210. Beyond militarism? Peace and war in civil memory; Vignette: Oh! What a Lovely War!; Vignette: A mass of memoried flowers -- poppies and ploughboys; 11. Postnational memory and national conflict: Remembrance in a globalizing society; PART 4: Towards a history of modern memory; 12. Towards a history of modern memory I: The work of the precursors; 13. Towards a history of modern memory II: a memory-work timeline; 14. The past in the present -- Metamorphosen; Vignette: Yevgeny Khaldei -- the malleability of memory and the Reichstag photo, 1945; Acknowledgements
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Image creditsList of abbreviations; Bibliography; Filmography; Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Young, Nigel, 1938- Postnational memory. New York : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780367110963
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429024801
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