Peripheral Memories : : Public and Private Forms of Experiencing and Narrating the Past / / ed. by Renée Wagener, Denis Scuto, Michel Margue, Fabienne Lentz, Elisabeth Boesen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Boesen, Elisabeth,; Carnegie, Elizabeth,; Edwards, Delyth,; Garstenauer, Rita,; Hoffmann, Jeanette,; Jara, Daniela,; Koleva, Daniela,; Lohl, Jan,; Maslen, Joseph,; Muxel, Anne,; Pfoser, Alena,; Scuto, Denis,; Wagener, Renée,
• HerausgeberIn: Boesen, Elisabeth,; Lentz, Fabienne,; Margue, Michel,; Scuto, Denis,; Wagener, Renée,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Histoire ; 36
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

After a period of intense work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field of memory processes, namely those connected with war, persecution and expulsion. In this sense, th...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Peripheral Memories – Introduction
• The Functions of Familial Memory and Processes of Identity
• “Totally Average Families”?
• The Aftermath of Violence
• Familial Discussions in the Context of Memory Research on the Second World War
• The Family as a Social Frame of Memory
• Private, Semi-Public, Published
• Curating People?
• Remembering the Home
• Public Discourse and Private Memory Processes in Luxembourgian Steel Worker Families
• Questioning the Cultural Memory of the 1960s
• Remembering Socialism, Living Post-Socialism
• “Actually we are Deeply Rooted in Austria”
• Narrated (Hi)Stories in an Intercultural Context
• Contributors