The Twentieth Century in European Memory

approx. 370 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-35234-6
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 645 g

Reihe: Brill

The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories of conflicts, world wars, dictatorship, genocide and mass killing. Focusing on the questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at the ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museum workers, artists, politicians and general audiences. Due to amplified mobility and communication as well as Europe’s changing institutional structure, such memories become increasingly transcultural, crossing cultural and political borders.
This book brings together in-depth researched case studies of memory transmission and reception in different types of media, including films, literature, museums, political debate printed and digital media, as well as studies of personal and public reactions.

Contributors are: Ismar Dedovic, Astrid Erll, Rosanna Farbøl, Magdalena Góra, Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Anne Heimo, Sara Jones, Wulf Kansteiner, Slawomir Kapralski, Zoé de Kerangat, Zdzislaw Mach, Natalija Majsova, Inge Melchior, Daisy Neijmann, Vjeran Pavlakovic, Benedikt Perak, Tea Sindbæk Andersen, and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Törnquist-Plewa, Barbara

Sindbæk Andersen, Tea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: On Transcultural Memory and Reception
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Astrid Erll

Part 1: Actors and Practices in Transcultural Transmission and Reception
2 Cross-Border Collaboration and the Construction of Memory Narratives in Europe
Sara Jones
3 The Polish Elites’ Struggle for Recognition of the Experience of Communism in the European Union
Zdzislaw Mach and Magdalena Góra
4 Answering Back to Presumed Accusations: Serbian First World War Memories and the Question of Historical Responsibility
Ismar Dedovic and Tea Sindbæk Andersen
5 Beyond Local Memories: Exhumations of Francoism’s Victims as Counter-discourse during the Spanish Transition to Democracy
Zoé de Kerangat
6 Double Victims and Agents of Change in Europe’s Margins: Estonian Emigrants Sharing ‘Their’ Repressive Soviet Past in the Netherlands
Inge Melchior

Part 2: Content and Media in Transcultural Transmission and Reception
7 Commemorating a War That Never Came: The Cold War as Counter-Factual War Memory
Rosanna Farbøl
8 Jews and the Holocaust in Poland’s Memoryscapes: An Inquiry Into Transcultural Amnesia
Slawomir Kapralski
9 Neither Rupture nor Continuity: Memorializing the Dawn of the Space Age in Contemporary Russian Cinematography
Natalija Majsova
10 Literary Mediation and Reception of Memories of War: Hallgrímur Hallgrímsson’s ‘Under the Republic’s Flag’
Daisy Neijmann and Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir
11 The Italian Hall Tragedy, 1913: A Hundred Years of Remediated Memories
Anne Heimo
12 How Does This Monument Make You Feel? Measuring Emotional Responses to War Memorials in Croatia
Vjeran Pavlakovic and Benedikt Perak
13 Transnational Holocaust Memory, Digital Culture, and the End of Reception Studies
Wulf Kansteiner

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tea Sindbæk Andersen, PhD (2008) teaches Balkan Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Tea’s research focuses on the contemporary history of Southeastern Europe, cultural memory and identity politics. Vice-chair of EU’s COST-action “In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe” (2012-2016).

Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, PhD (1992), professor, head of the Centre for European Studies at Lund University in Sweden and chair of EU’s COST-action “In Search for Transcultural Memory in Europe” (2012-2016). Her research focuses on nationalism, identity and collective memories in Eastern and Central Europe.