Mediating Historical Responsibility : : Memories of ‘Difficult Pasts’ in European Cultures /

Mediating Historical Responsibility : : Memories of ‘Difficult Pasts’ in European Cultures / / ed. by Guido Bartolini, Joseph Ford.

Mediating Historical Responsibility brings together leading scholars and new voices in the interdisciplinary fields of memory studies, history, and cultural studies to explore the ways culture, and cultural representations, have been at the forefront of bringing the memory of past injustices to the...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bartolini, Guido,
Blacker, Uilleam,
Bloxham, Donald,
Burdett, Charles,
Chmielewska, Katarzyna,
Choukri, Meryem,
Ford, Joseph,
Giuliani, Gaia,
Gorrara, Claire,
Lotem, Itay,
Mancosu, Gianmarco,
Menezes, Alison Ribeiro de,
Meretoja, Hanna,
Perra, Emiliano,
Popa, Diana,
Prade-Weiss, Juliane,
Saadi, Lara,
Silverman, Max,
Vervaet, Stijn,
Williamson Sinalo, Caroline,
HerausgeberIn:
Bartolini, Guido,
Ford, Joseph,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Media and Cultural Memory , 40
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 379 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Historical Responsibility and the Mediation of Difficult Pasts
  • Responsibility and the Mediation of History
  • Memory as Interpretation: A Hermeneutics of Agency, Historical Responsibility, and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung [Visitation]
  • Beyond Neutrality: Historianship and Moral Judgement
  • Impure Memory and the Figurine: Rithy Panh’s L’Image manquante [The Missing Picture]
  • Responsibility, Complicity, and the Poetics of Discomfort: Commemorating Dictatorships in Contemporary Central and Eastern European Documentary Fiction
  • Legacies of Colonialism
  • End of Empire (Channel 4, 1985) and the Public Memory of Decolonisation in Britain
  • Why Care about the Violence of the Past? Addressing Collective Responsibility in British Debates about Colonial Violence during the Mau Mau Insurgency
  • Haunting Debris: The Transnational Legacies of Italy’s Colonial Past in Addis Ababa
  • Genocides
  • The Holocaust and Decolonisation in Contemporary Ukrainian Commemorative Culture, Literature, and Art
  • Symbolic Responsibility: Holocaust Memory in Romania through Radu Jude’s Archival Documentaries
  • Between Guiltless Responsibility and Current French Interests: Uncovering Motive in the Media Coverage of the Duclert Report in Le Monde and the Rwandan New Times and Pan African Review
  • Memories of Dictatorships and World War II
  • Memory Unboxed: Reckoning with German Memories of the Second World War in Nora Krug’s Heimat: A German Family Album (2018)
  • “Democratic Memory,” Public History, and Responsibility in Spain
  • Communism without Guilt: Autobiographical Family Narratives of Communists in Poland
  • Fighting Racism and Rethinking Belonging
  • Remembering Migration, Rethinking Belonging: Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft [Where You Come From]
  • Archive of Solidarity after Hanau: Remembering Right-Wing Terror, Racism, and Antisemitism in Germany
  • Private Memory, Postmemory, and Public Memory in a Battlefield: Mediterranean Border Crossings, Italian Public Discourse on the Invasion, and the Counter-Public Political Project of a Common Postcolonial (Post-)Memory
  • Contributors
  • Index

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