Aleida Assmann

Shadows of Trauma: Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity

Übersetzer: Clift, Sarah

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book traces the process of creating of a new German memory of the Holocaust after the fall of the Wall. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which Germany¿s new `memory culture¿ emerged as a collective project and work in progress.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780823267279
• ISBN-10: 082326727X
• Artikelnr.: 42648838

Autorenporträt

Aleida Assmann is Professor Emerita of English Literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany. Her most recent book to appear in English is Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the English Language Edition
Introduction
Part I: Theoretical Foundations
1. From Individual to Collective Constructions of the Past
2. Basic Concepts and Themes of Individual and Collective Memory
Part II: Analyses and Case Studies
3. How True are Memories?
4. False Memories: Pathologies of Identity at the End of the Twentieth
Century
5. Incorrect Memories: On the Normative Power of Social Frameworks of
Memory
6. Five Strategies of Represssion
7. German Narratives of Victimhood
8. Points of Intersection Between Lived Memory and Cultural Memory
9. Lieux de Memoire in Time and Space
10. The Future of Holocaust Memory
11. Europe as a Memory Community
Conclusion: Shadows of Trauma
Notes
Bibliography
Index