The Twentieth Century in European Memory : Transcultural Mediation and Reception / Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sindbæk Andersen, Tea, author.

Törnquist Plewa, Barbara, author.

Series:

European Studies 34.

European Studies ; Volume 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages) illustrations (some color)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brill 2017

Leiden, Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill nv, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories. Focusing on questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museums, artists, politicians and general audiences.

Contents:

Introduction: on transcultural memory and reception / Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Astrid Erll

Part I. Actors and practices in transcultural transmission and reception

Cross-border collaboration and the construction of memory narratives in Europe / Sara Jones

The Polish elites' struggle for recognition of the experience of communism in the European Union / Zdzislaw Mach and Magdalena Gora

Answering back to presumed accusations: Serbian First World War memories and the question of historical responsibility / Ismar Dedovic and Tea Sindbæk Andersen

Beyond local memories: exhumations of Francoism's victims as counter-discourse during the Spanish transition to democracy / Zoe de Kerangat

Double victims and agents of change in Europe's margins: Estonian emigrants sharing "their" repressive Soviet past in the Netherlands / Inge Melchior

Part II. Content and media in transcultural transmission and reception

Commemorating a war that never came: the Cold War as counter-factual war memory / Rosanna Farbol

Jews and the holocaust in Poland's memoryscapes: an inquiry into transcultural amnesia / Slawomir Kapralski

Neither rupture nor continuity: memorializing the dawn of the space age in contemporary Russian cinematography / Natalija Majsova

Literary mediation and reception of memories of war: Hallgrimur Hallgrimsson's "Under the republic's flag" / Daisy Neijmann and Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir

The Italian Hall tragedy, 1913: a hundred years of remediated memories / Anne Heimo

How does this monument make you feel? Measuring emotional responses to war memorials in Croatia / Vjeran Pavlakovic and Benedikt Perak

Transnational holocaust memory, digital culture, and the end of reception studies / Wulf Kansteiner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

90-04-35235-X

OCLC:

992434124

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004352353 DOI