Germany, Poland, and postmemorial relations
Subtitle: in search of a livable past
By: edited by Kristin Kopp and Joanna Niżyńska
Series: Europe in transition : the NYU European studies series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780230337305
Subjects: Collective memory; Reconciliation; Social aspects; Population transfers; Poland; Influence; Relations; Post-communism; World War, 1939-1945; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Germans; History
Description: Covering the period following the collapse of communism, the unification of Germany, and Poland's accession to the EU, this collection focuses on the interdependencies of German, Polish, and Jewish collective memories and their dialogic, transnational character.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Between Entitlement and Reconciliation : Germany and Poland's Post-Memory after 1989 / Kristin Kopp and Joanna Nizynska; title: Part I. The Politics of Postmemory; title: Shadows of Memory in Polish-German Relations (1989-2005) / Wanda Jarzabek; title: History by Decree? The Commission of Historians of the German Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Poland, 1956-1990 / Stefan Guth; title: "The Law Alleviates Concerns" : Legal Dimensions of Polish-German Reconciliation / Pawel Lutomski; title: Eclipsing the Polish-German Past to Construct a Post-Socialist Polish Memory-Culture / Heidi Hein-Kircher; title: Part II. The Grand Narratives of Postmemory; title: When Poland was Home : Nostalgic Returns in Grass and Wolf / Angelika Bammer; title: Declaring War : Attitudes Towards the Years 1939-1945 in the Literature of the Post-1990s / Przemyslaw Czaplinski; title: Liberation from Memory : Memory, Post-Memory, or Subverted Memory in What Does the Messenger Girl Do by Foks & Libera / Marek Zaleski; title: Interview with Jan T. Gross (2007/2009) / Jesse Labov and Jan T. Gross; title: Genre and Intervention : Reflections on the Reception of Neighbors and Fear / Jessie Labov; title: Relocating Auschwitz : Affective Relations in the Jewish-German-Polish Troika / Erica Lehrer; title: The "Lodzermensch" : From Cultural Contamination to Marketable Multiculturalism / Winson W. Chu; title: "We are Prussia Today" : Polish-German Variations on a Vanished State / Gregor Thum.