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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Assmann, A
• Shortt, L
• Dr Linda Shortt
• Prof Aleida Assmann
• Shortt, Linda
• Assmann, Aleida

Titel

Memory and Political Change

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

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• 01 02 While it is well-known that memory is open to constant changes and transformations, this book adopts an innovative approach, emphasizing memory's role as a powerful agent of change. While political systems may change comparatively quickly, the social and cultural processes of adaptation and transformation take considerably longer. This volume explores memory as both a medium of and an impediment to change, offering an inroad into the problems, mechanisms and patterns involved in the complex processes that accompany the transition from authoritarian to democratic structures. Written by authors from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, the essays chart the terrain andsupply well-documented case studiesto extend knowledge on the relationship between social and political memory and the transition process. 16 02 There are no direct competitors to the proposed volume.  However, there are a few publications that address similar issues but are placed in a much narrower context:   Muro & Alonso: THE POLITICS OF MEMORY AND DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION: THE SPANISH MODEL; Routledge, forthcoming, 2010 Mendel-Reyes: RECLAIMING DEMOCRACY: THE SIXTIES IN POLITICS AND MEMORY; Routledge, 1996 Dresp: LIVING WITH THE LEGACY OF THE HOLOCAUST: HISTORY, MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN GERMAN DEMOCRACY, 1945-2005; VDM Verlag, 2009 Seraphim: WAR MEMORY AND SOCIAL POLITICS IN JAPAN, 1945-2005; Harvard University Press, 2008 Edy: TROUBLED PASTS: NEWS AND THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF SOCIAL UNREST;  Temple University Press, 2006 19 02 This is the first volume to explore the impact of memory in processes of social and cultural change  Brings together essays by international researchers from a variety of disciplines who work with the biological, cultural, narrative and social psychological dimensions of memory Contributes to our understanding of the problems, mechanisms and patterns involved in the complex processes that accompany the transition from authoritarian to democratic structures Aleida Assmann has an excellent reputation and is one of the leading memory studies scholars in the world   31 02 Examining the role of memory as an agent of change in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, thisbookmakes an important contribution to memory studies 04 02 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 13 02 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 study of 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 Kathleen James Chakraborty. 02 02 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.