Broken narratives : post-Cold War history and identity in Europe and East Asia / edited by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne, editor.

Series:

Leiden series in comparative historiography ; v. 8.

Leiden series in comparative historiography, 1574-4493 ; volume 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Social change.

History.

Historiography.

Europe--History--20th century--Historiography.

Europe.

East Asia--History--20th century--Historiography.

East Asia.

Europe--In motion pictures.

East Asia--In motion pictures.

Europe--In literature.

East Asia--In literature.

Social change--Europe.

Social change--East Asia.

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory--East Asia.

Literature.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

x, 261 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

Summary:

"The end of the Cold War reshuffled the power relations between former friends and enemies. In Broken Narratives the contributors offer an account of the consequences of the end of the Cold War for the (re-)telling of history in film, literature and academic historiography in Europe and East Asia. Despite the post-modern claim that there is no need for a master-narrative, the contributions to this book show that we are in the middle of an intense and difficult search for a common understanding of the past. However, instead of common narratives, polyphony and dissonances are produced which reflect a world in a period of transition. As the contributions to this volume show, the year 1989 has generated broken narratives. Contributors include: Peter Verstraten, Rotem Kowner, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Carsten Schäfer, Martin Gieselmann, Yonson Ahn, Chang Lung-chih, Andrea Riemenschnitter, Shingo Minamizuka, Petra Buchholz, and Tatiana Zhurzhenko"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Notes on contributors

Introduction: Writing history into broken narratives / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik

Part 1. Cinematic contributions to post-Cold War historiography

"Europe in the mist" : the imaginary of European history in Lars von Trier's Europa and in Dancer in the dark / Peter Verstraten

Hiroshima as a personal and national allegory : revisiting Hiroshima mon amour and H story / Rotem Kowner

The individual and the war : re-remembering the Sino-Japanese War in the TV series A spring river flows east / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Carsten Schafer

Chinese cinema in the post-Cold War era and the legacy of the Sino-Japanese War : Devils on the doorstep and Purple sunset / Martin Gieselmann

Part 2. Post-colonialist contributions to post-Cold War historiography

Rewriting the history of colonialism in South Korea / Yonson Ahn

Colonialism and modernity in Taiwan : reflections on contemporary Taiwanese historiography / Chang Lung-chih

Staging local history between empires : Shandong Boxer resistance as Maoqiang opera / Andrea Riemenschnitter

Part 3. Cold War roots of post-Cold War historiography

The "third road" concept in 1956 Hungary / Shingo Minamizuka

Confessions of Japanese POWs after re-education in China / Petra Buchholz

Concluding remarks: The geopolitics of memory / Tatiana Zhurzhenko.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004268777

9004268774

ISSN:

1574-4493

OCLC:

879552947