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OverviewIt 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. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Uilleam Blacker , Alexander Etkind , J. FedorPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2013 Weight: 0.374kg ISBN: 9781349458264ISBN 10: 1349458260 Pages: 279 Publication Date: 18 September 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction; Uilleam Blacker and Alexander Etkind PART I: DIVIDED MEMORY 1. Europe's Divided Memory; Aleida Assmann 2. Human Rights and European Remembrance; Jay Winter 3. European Memory: Between Jewish and Cosmopolitan; Natan Sznaider PART II: POST-COLONIAL, POST-SOCIALIST 4. Between Paris and Warsaw: Multidirectional Memory, Ethics and Historical Responsibility; Michael Rothberg 5. Theory as Memory Practice: The Divided Discourse on Poland's Postcoloniality; Dirk Uffelmann 6. Occupation vs Colonization: Post-Soviet Latvia and the Provincialization of Europe; Kevin M. F. Platt PART III: MOURNING MATTERS 7. Murder in the Cemetery: Memorial Clashes over the Victims of the Soviet-Polish Wars; Andrzej Nowak 8. Living among the Ghosts of Others: Urban Postmemory in Eastern Europe; Uilleam Blacker 9. Towards Cosmopolitan Mourning: Belarusian Literature between History and Politics; Simon Lewis PART IV: MEMORY WARS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 10. Why Digital Memory Studies Should Not Overlook Eastern Europe's Memory Wars; Ellen Rutten 11. Memory Wars in Post-Soviet Ukraine (1991-2010); Andriy Portnov 12. The Struggle for History: The Past as a Limited Resource; Ilya KalininReviews'The contributors to this volume explore the difficult challenges facing Europe in reaching common understandings of very different historical memories of Holocaust and Gulag. The editors have brought together scholars who cross the boundaries of humanistic disciplines. Above all, they have found scholars who have been brave enough to learn about the other half of Europe.' - Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University 'A compelling volume that powerfully challenges the Western canon of Memory Studies to define a new age of cultural memory in the East.' - Andrew Hoskins, Editor-in-Chief, Memory Studies Author InformationAleida Assman, University of Konstanz, Germany Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Mischa Gabowitsch, Einstein Forum, State University of New York at Potsdam, USA Ilya Kalinin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia Simon Lewis, Kings College, University of Cambridge, UK Andrzej Nowak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Andrei Portnov, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Natan Sznaider, Academic College, Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel Jay Winter, Yale University, USA Harald Wydra, University of Cambridge, UK Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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