Remembering Transitions : : Local Revisions and Global Crossings in Culture and Media /

Remembering Transitions : : Local Revisions and Global Crossings in Culture and Media / / ed. by Ksenia Robbe.

This volume offers critical perspectives on memories of political and socioeconomic ‘transitions’ that took place between the 1970s and 1990s across the globe and that inaugurated the end of the Cold War. The essays respond to a wealth of recent works of literature, film, theatre, and other media in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Dánél, Mónika,
Kornetis, Kostis,
Levey, Cara,
Luca, Ioana,
Makhortykh, Mykola,
Poenaru, Florin,
Robbe, Ksenia,
Thomas, Kylie,
Tsen, Darwin H.,
Valdivia Martin, Pablo,
Valdivia Milla, Bonifacio,
Vlies, Andrew van der,
Zavadski, Andrei,
HerausgeberIn:
Robbe, Ksenia,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Media and Cultural Memory , 38
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 332 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Remembering Transitions: Approaching Memories in/of Crisis
  • Part I: Transitions’ Working Memories
  • Herta Müller and Katherine Verdery as Spies: File-Memoirs as Forms of Remembering through and against the Secret Police Archives
  • Conflictive Cultural Narratives in the Collective Memory of the Spanish Transition: The Case of Trampa para Pájaros by José Luis Alonso De Santos
  • Lost in Transition? Understanding Hungarian and Romanian 1989 Regime Change through Metalepsis and Collage
  • Transition as Dysrhythmia: Luo Yijun, Generational Logic, and Taiwanese Post-postmodernism
  • Refusing Transitional Time: Re-opening the Unresolved Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cases and the Future of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa
  • Part II: Reworking Memories of Transitions
  • Memoryscapes of the Southern European Transitions during the Great Recession
  • Remembering the 1990s in Russia as a Form of Political Protest: Mnemonic Counterpublics
  • We Were Hungry, but We Were Also Free: Narratives of Russia’s First Post-Soviet Decade on Instagram
  • Romanian Transition and Transnational Crossings: A Well-Traveled Communist Biddy
  • Writing Exile(s) from the Periphery: Hijos del exilio and Transnational Memory of the Southern Cone Democratic Transitions
  • Remembering Transition in Contemporary South African and Russian Literatures: Between Melancholia and Repair
  • Afterword
  • Refusing the Anti-Politics Machine: On Post-Transitional, Transitional Times
  • About the Authors
  • Index

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