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The work of memory : new directions in the study of German society and culture / edited by Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--Social aspects.
- Memory.
- Germany--Civilization.
- Germany.
- Civilization.
- Memory--Social aspects--Germany.
- Memorials--Germany.
- Memorials.
- Germany--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- National socialism--Psychological aspects.
- National socialism.
- Political culture--Germany.
- Political culture.
- Physical Description:
- 265 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Coming to terms with a troubled past is the mark of the modern condition. But how does memory operate? This powerful collection of original essays probes this question by focusing on Germany, where historical trauma and political turbulence over the past century have deeply scarred modern memory and identity. Tracing the role of memory in German history between the Reformation and reunification, contributors show how memory has a history and the presence of the past has a historical context. With scholarly zeal and keen insight, these essays draw on ghost stories and the postwar fiction of Heinrich Boll, among other memory sites, escorting the reader through the streets of Alt Hildesheim and the grocery aisles of East Germany. By historicizing memory, this volume surpasses the efforts of previous memory scholarship in confronting Germany's National Socialist past. Standard approaches to memory in modern Germany have explored how the past represents social relations and is commemorated in literature, art, and personal narrative. In taking memory "out of the museum" and "beyond the monument," The Work of Memory investigates the ways memory forms social relations and is integral to the construction of identities, communities, and policies. Profound and provocative, The Work of Memory contributes to a much-needed anthropology of memory in modern Germany.
- Contents:
- Introduction: noises of the past / Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche
- Historicity. From presence to remembrance: the transformation of memory in the German Reformation / Craig Koslofsky
- Memory, history, and the Jewish question: universal citizenship and the colonization of Jewish memory / Jonathan M. Hess
- How nostalgia narrates modernity / Peter Fritzsche
- Masters of memory: the strategic use of autobiographical memory by the German nobility / Marcus Funck and Stephan Malinowski
- Everyday life. Hildesheim in an age of pestilence: on the birth, death, and resurrection of normalcy / Andrew Stuart Bergerson
- Awakening from war: history, trauma, and testimony in Heinrich Böll / Elizabeth Snyder Hook
- Memory and existence: implications of the Wende / Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke
- Materiality. An economy of memory: psychiatrists, veterans, and traumatic narratives in Weimar Germany / Paul Lerner
- Public relations as a site of memory: the case of West German industry and national socialism / S. Jonathan Wiesen
- Gender, public policy, and memory: waiting wives and war widows in the postwar Germanys / Elizabeth Heineman
- Epilogue: dangerous memories / Steven T. Ostovich.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252027175
- OCLC:
- 47689908
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