Remembering Transitions : Local Revisions and Global Crossings in Culture and Media / edited by Ksenia Robbe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Robbe, Ksenia, editor.

Series:

Media and cultural memory ; Volume 38.

Media and Cultural Memory Series ; Volume 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2023]

Summary:

This volume offers critical perspectives on memories of political and socioeconomic 'transitions' that took place between the 1970s and 1990s across the globe and that inaugurated the end of the Cold War. The essays respond to a wealth of recent works of literature, film, theatre, and other media in different languages that rethink the transformations of those decades in light of present-day crises. The authors scrutinize the enduring silences produced by established frameworks of memory and time and explore the mnemonic practices that challenge these frameworks by positing radical ambivalence or by articulating new perspectives and subjectivities. As a whole, the volume contributes to current debates and theory-making in critical memory studies by reflecting on how the changing recollection of transitions constitutes a response to the crisis of memory and time regimes, and how remembering these times as crises renders visible continuities between this past and the present. It is a valuable resource for academics, students, practitioners, and general readers interested in exploring the dynamics of memory in post-authoritarian societies.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction. Remembering Transitions: Approaching Memories in/of Crisis

Part I: Transitions' Working Memories

Herta Müller and Katherine Verdery as Spies: File-Memoirs as Forms of Remembering through and against the Secret Police Archives

Conflictive Cultural Narratives in the Collective Memory of the Spanish Transition: The Case of Trampa para Pájaros by José Luis Alonso De Santos

Lost in Transition? Understanding Hungarian and Romanian 1989 Regime Change through Metalepsis and Collage

Transition as Dysrhythmia: Luo Yijun, Generational Logic, and Taiwanese Post-postmodernism

Refusing Transitional Time: Re-opening the Unresolved Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cases and the Future of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa

Part II: Reworking Memories of Transitions

Memoryscapes of the Southern European Transitions during the Great Recession

Remembering the 1990s in Russia as a Form of Political Protest: Mnemonic Counterpublics

We Were Hungry, but We Were Also Free: Narratives of Russia's First Post-Soviet Decade on Instagram

Romanian Transition and Transnational Crossings: A Well-Traveled Communist Biddy

Writing Exile(s) from the Periphery: Hijos del exilio and Transnational Memory of the Southern Cone Democratic Transitions

Remembering Transition in Contemporary South African and Russian Literatures: Between Melancholia and Repair

Afterword

Refusing the Anti-Politics Machine: On Post-Transitional, Transitional Times

About the Authors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

3-11-070779-9