Memory and political change

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Other Authors: Assmann, Aleida (edtf), Shortt, Linda (edtf)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Series:Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Transgenerational transmission. Replacement children: the transgenerational transmission of traumatic loss; the emotional legacy of the Nazi past in post-war Germany
  • Part II. Instruments of change. To remember or to forget: which way out of a shared history of violence?; between pragmatism, coercion and fear: chosen amnesia after the Rwandan genocide; from domestic to international instruments for dealing with a violent past: causes, concomitants and consequences for democratic transitions;
  • Part III. Re-imagining the past for the future. Re-imagining East Germany in the Berlin Republic; GDR memory and the transitional generation; South African transition in the literary imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu; commemorating the other side of the colonial frontier in Australian literature of reconciliation
  • Part IV. Resistance to change. Deep memory and narrative templates: conservative forces in collective memory; the myth of the self: the Georgian national narrative and guest for Georgianness; memory across cultures.