Memory and postwar memorials
Subtitle: confronting the violence of the past
By: edited by Marc Silberman, Florence Vatan
Series: Studies in European culture and history; Studies in European culture and history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781137343512
Subjects: Atrocities; History; War and society; Crimes against humanity; Collective memory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: After the violence: memory / Florence Vatan and Marc Silberman -- Part I.; title: Competing memories --; title: The Nuremberg trials as Cold War competition: the politics of the historical record and the international stage  -- Francine Hirsch; title: The Cube on Red Square: a memorial for the victims of twentieth-century Russia  -- Karl Schlogel; title: Reactive memory: the Holocaust and the flight and expulsion of Germans  -- Bill Niven; title: Beyond Auschwitz? Europe's terrorscapes in the age of postmemory  -- Rob van der Laarse -- Part II.; title: Staging memory --; title: Narrative shock and Polish memory remaking in the twenty-first century  -- Genevieve Zubrzycki; title: Grievability and the politics of visibility: the photography of Francesc Torres and the mass graves of the Spanish Civil War  -- Ofelia Ferran; title: Doing memory in public: postapartheid memorial space as an activist project  -- Robyn Autry; title: Mnemonic objects: forensic and rhetorical practices in memorial culture  -- Laurie Beth Clark -- Part III.; title: Re-membering memory --; title: Toward a critical reparative practice in post-1989 German literature: Christa Wolf's City of Angels or the overcoat of Dr. Freud (2010)  -- Anke Pinkert; title: Paradoxes of remembrance: dissecting France's "Duty to memory"  -- Richard J. Golsan; title: After-words: lessons in memory and politics -- Marc Silberman.