Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe

Eric Langenbacher, Bill Niven, Ruth Wittlinger (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

248 Seiten

2015
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78238-917-0 (ISBN)

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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 Visiting Assistant 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). Bill Niven is Professor of Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University. His recent publications include The Buchenwald Child: Truth, Fiction and Propaganda (Camden House, 2007; German edition, 2009), and Memorialization in Germany since 1945 (edited with Chloe Paver, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Ruth Wittlinger is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at the University of Durham, UK. Her latest monograph is German National Identity in the Twenty-First Century: A Different Republic After All? (Basingstoke, 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
Zustand	Neuware