Performing the past : memory, history, and identity in modern Europe / Karin Tilmans, Frank van Vree and Jay Winter (eds.)

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tilmans, Karin, editor.

Vree, Frank van, editor.

Winter, J. M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History--Philosophy.

History.

Collective memory--Europe.

Collective memory.

Europe--History.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Throughout Europe, narratives about the past circulate at a dizzying speed, and producing and selling these narratives is big business. In museums, in cinema and opera houses, in schools, and even on the Internet, Europeans are using the power of performance to craft stories that ultimately define the ways their audiences understand and remember history. Performing the Past offers unparalleled insights into the philosophical, literary, musical, and historical frameworks within which the past has entered into the European imagination. The essays in this volume, from such internationally renowned scholars as Reinhart Koselleck, Jan Assmann, Jane Caplan, Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer, Peter Burke, and Alessandro Portelli, investigate various national and disciplinary traditions to explain how Europeans see themselves in the past, in the present, and in the years to come.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

1. The performance of the past: memory, history, identity / Winter, Jay

Framework

2. Re-framing memory. Between individual and collective forms of constructing the past / Assmann, Aleida

3. Repetitive structures in language and history / Koselleck, Reinhart

4. Unstuck in time. Or: the sudden presence of the past / Lorenz, Chris

The Performative Turn

5. Co-memorations. Performing the past / Burke, Peter

6. 'Indelible memories'. The tattooed body as theatre of memory / Caplan, Jane

7. Incongruous images. 'Before, during, and after' the Holocaust / Hirsch, Marianne / Spitzer, Leo

8. Radio Clandestina: from oral history to the theatre / Portelli, Alessandro

Media and the Arts

9. Music and memory in Mozart's Zauberflöte / Assmann, Jan

10. The many afterlives of Ivanhoe / Rigney, Ann

11. Novels and their readers, memories and their social frameworks / Leerssen, Joep

12. Indigestible images. On the ethics and limits of representation / Vree, Frank Van

Identity, Politics and the Performance of History

13. 'In these days of convulsive political change'. Discourse and display in the revolutionary museum, 1793-1815 / Grijzenhout, Frans

14. Restitution as a means of remembrance. Evocations of the recent past in the Czech Republic and in Poland after 1989 / Tyszka, Stanislaw

15. European identity and the politics of remembrance / Bottici, Chiara

About the Authors

List of Illustrations

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-003-70127-2

1-04-079481-5

1-282-98524-8

9786612985249

90-485-1202-6

9781003701279

OCLC:

700706915