Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe / / ed. by Eric Langenbacher, Ruth Wittlinger, Bill Niven.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bjerg, Helle,; Di Lellio, Anna,; Gudehus, Christian,; Hahn, Hans-Joachim,; Keizer, Madelon de,; Langenbacher, Eric,; Lenz, Claudia,; Meyer, Henning,; Niven, Bill,; Radonic, Ljiljana,; Wagstaff, Mark,; Wittlinger, Ruth,; Wolfgram, Mark A.,; Wydra, Harald,
• HerausgeberIn: Langenbacher, Eric,; Niven, Bill,; Wittlinger, Ruth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today’s eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growin...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction: DYNAMICS OF MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE
• Chapter 1. DYNAMICS OF GENERATIONAL MEMORY
• Chapter 2. TIME-OUT FOR NATIONAL HEROES?
• Chapter 3. THE MEMORY-MARKET DICTUM
• Chapter 4 REMEMBERING WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE
• Chapter 5. ACH(TUNG) EUROPA
• Chapter 6. CRITIQUING THE STRANGER, INVENTING EUROPE
• Chapter 7. THE THREAD THAT BINDS TOGETHER
• Chapter 8. MEMORY OF WORLD WAR II IN FRANCE
• Chapter 9. THE FIELD OF THE BLACKBIRDS AND THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE
• Chapter 10. TRANSFORMATION OF MEMORY IN CROATIA
• Chapter 11. GERMAN VICTIMHOOD DISCOURSE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
• Chapter 12. SHAKING OFF THE PAST?
• Conclusion. A PLEA FOR AN “INTERGOVERNMENTAL” EUROPEAN MEMORY
• NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX