Memory and political change

Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions. ALEIDA ASSMANN Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her research interests include the history and media theory of reading and writing, cultural concepts of time and historical anthropology. A central and ongoing focus of her research has been the studyof memory as an individual, collective and cultural phenomenon, including literary representations of trauma. Recent publications include 'Arts of Memory 'and'Memory in a Global Age,' which she co-edited with Sebastian Conrad. LINDA SHORTTLecturer in German at Bangor University, UK. She has held teaching appointments atUniversityCollege Dublin, Ireland,and the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her research focuses on contemporary German literature and culture, concepts of belonging and representations of old age, illness and death. She is co-editor of 'Debating German Cultural Identities' with Anne Fuchs and KathleenJames Chakraborty. INDICE: Notes on the Contributors - Acknowledgements - Foreword: Remembrance as a Human Right; 'J.Winter - 'Introduction; 'A.Assmann' &' L.Shortt - 'PART I: TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION - Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss; 'G.Schwab - 'The Emotional Legacy of the Nazi Past in Post-War Germany; 'G.Brockhaus - 'PART II: INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE -To Remember or to Forget: Which Way out of a Shared History of Violence? 'A.Assmann - 'Between Pragmatism, Coercion and Fear: Chosen Amnesia after the Rwandan Genocide; 'S.Buckley-Zistel - 'From Domestic to International Instruments for Dealing with a Violent Past: Causes, Concomitants and Consequences for Democratic Transitions; 'B.Weiffen - 'PART III: RE-IMAGINING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE - Re-Imagining East Germany in the Berlin Republic: Jana Hensel, GDR Memory and the Transitional Generation; 'L.Shortt' - South African Transition in the Literary Imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu; 'M.Reif-Huelser - ''That's Not a Story I Could Tell': Commemorating the Other Side of the Colonial Frontier in Australian Literature of Reconciliation; 'A.Schwarz - 'PART IV: RESISTANCE TO CHANGE - Deep Memory and Narrative Templates: Conservative Forces in Collective Memory; 'J.V.Wertsch - 'The 'Myth' of the Self: The Georgian National Narrative and Quest for 'Georgianness'; 'N.Batiashvili - 'Memory across Cultures; 'A.H.Gutchess' &' M.Siegel - 'Index -

• ISBN: 978-0-230-30200-6
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés