European cultural memory post-89 edited by Conny Mithander, John Sundholm and Adrian Velicu.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mithander, Conny.

Sundholm, John.

Velicu, Adrian.

Series:

European studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) 30

European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Social aspects--Europe.

Memory.

Memory--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Group identity--Europe.

Group identity.

Group identity--Europe, Eastern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam New York Rodopi 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is the first comprehensive mapping of how practices of cultural memory in post-communist countries and other late newcomers to the European Union have been affected due to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism. The essays cover Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, the unified Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden as well as Europe's significant Other, Russia. The practices analysed range from films, novels and theatre to museums and state organizations such as memory institutes and pedagogical campaigns.

Contents:

Intro

EUROPEAN STUDIES: An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics

Contents

Authors in this volume

Introduction

The House of Terror and the Holocaust Memorial Centre: Resentment and Melancholia in Post-89 Hungary

Institutional Entrepreneurs of a Difficult Past: the Organisation of Knowledge Regimes in Post-Soviet Lithuanian Museums

Implementing Post-Communist National Memory in the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Coming to Terms with Anti-Semitism: Jan T. Gross's Writings and the Construction of Cultural Trauma in Post-Communist Poland

The Moral Witness in Post-89 Romania

From the Holocaust to the Gulag: The Crimes of Nazism and Communism in Swedish Post-89 Memory Politics

Finland at War on Screen since 1989: Affirmative Historiography and Prosthetic Memory

Memory, Melodrama and History: The Return of the Past in Contemporary Popular Film in Germany

Austria's Post-89: Staging Suppressed Memory in Elfriede Jelinek's and Thomas Bernhard's Plays Burgtheater and Heldenplatz

The Eternal Great Power Meets the Recurring Times of Troubles: Twin Political Myths in Contemporary Russian Politics.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references

ISBN:

94-012-0889-1

OCLC:

831118695

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401208895 DOI