Format:
ix, 279 Seiten
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23 cm
Edition:
1. edition
ISBN:
9781137322050
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9781349458264
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
Content:
"In the last decades of the twentieth century, a 'memory boom' took place in Western Europe and North America. It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. Importing the 'memory boom' into a new cultural context without interrogating the paradigm itself is of course impossible, and this has been the starting point for the current volume. While for scholars of Eastern Europe the volume will be interesting for the specifics discussed in each chapter, for scholars in Memory Studies it affords a new, startlingly different perspective on a paradigm that has become canonical and crystallized"--
Note:
Literaturangaben und Register
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Introduction
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Part I Divided memory -- 1. Europe's divided memory
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2. Human rights and European remembrance
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3. European memory: between Jewish and cosmopolitan
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Part II Postcolonial, postsocialist -- 4. Between Paris and Warsaw: multidirectional memory, ethics and historical responsibility
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5. Theory as memory practice: the divided discourse on Poland's postcoloniality
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6. Occupation versus colonization: post-Soviet Latvia and the provincialization of Europe
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Part III: Mourning matters -- 7. Murder in the cemetery: memorial clashes over the victims of the Soviet-Polish wars
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8. Living among the ghosts of others: urban postmemory in Eastern Europe
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9. Towards cosmopolitan mourning: Belarusian literature between history and politics
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Part IV Memory wars in the twenty-first century -- 10. Why digital memory studies should not overlook Eastern Europe's memory wars
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11. Memory wars in post-Soviet Ukraine (1991-2010)
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12. The struggle for history: the past as a limited resource
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Memory and theory in Eastern Europe New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 ISBN 9781137322067
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137322074
Language:
German
Subjects:
History
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Ethnology
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Slavic Studies
Keywords:
Osteuropa
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Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Geschichte 1990-
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Osteuropa
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Author information:
Ėtkind, Aleksandr Markovič 1955-
