Screen LibraryPeripheral memories : public and private forms of experiencing and narrating the past /
After a period of intense work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field of memory processes, namely those connected with war, persecution and expulsion. In this sense, th...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2012 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Histoire ;
volume 36 |
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| Summary: |
After a period of intense work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field of memory processes, namely those connected with war, persecution and expulsion. In this sense, the memory - or rather the trauma - of the Holocaust is paradigmatic for the entire research field. The Holocaust is furthermore increasingly understood as constitutive of a global memory community which transcends national memories and mediates universal values. The present volume diverges from this perspective by dealing also with everyday subjects of memory. This allows for a more complete view of the interdependencies between public and private memory and, more specifically, public and family memory. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839421161 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | D13 |
| CLC: | K152 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Peripheral Memories Introduction / The Functions of Familial Memory and Processes of Identity / "Totally Average Families"? / The Aftermath of Violence / Familial Discussions in the Context of Memory Research on the Second World War / The Family as a Social Frame of Memory / Private, Semi-Public, Published / Curating People? / Remembering the Home / Public Discourse and Private Memory Processes in Luxembourgian Steel Worker Families / Questioning the Cultural Memory of the 1960s / Remembering Socialism, Living Post-Socialism / "Actually we are Deeply Rooted in Austria" / Narrated (Hi)Stories in an Intercultural Context / Contributors. |