Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe

The Ghosts of Others
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-78562-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Reihe: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities that were filled with the traces of the foreign cultures of the former inhabitants. In the immediate post-war period these traces were not acknowledged, the new inhabitants going along with official policies of oblivion, the national narratives of new post-war regimes, and the memorializing of the victors. In time, however, and increasingly over recent decades, the former "other pasts" have been embraced and taken on board as part of local cultural memory. This book explores this interesting and increasingly important phenomenon. It examines official ideologies, popular memory, literature, film, memorialization and tourism to show how other pasts are being incorporated into local cultural memory. It relates these developments to cultural theory and argues that the relationship between urban space, cultural memory and identity in Eastern Europe is increasingly becoming a question not only of cultural politics, but also of consumption and choice, alongside a tendency towards the cosmopolitanization of memory.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blacker, Uilleam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Memory of Lost Others and the City as Text. 2. Absence, Ruins and Remembering. 3. Martyrdom, Memory and the Other City. 4. Thrills, Chills and Sensations: Lost Others in Consumer and Popular Culture. 5. Popular Literature and Lost Others. 6. City, Text and Photograph. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Uilleam Blacker is a lecturer in comparative Russian and East European culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.