Broken narratives : : post-Cold War history and identity in Europe and East Asia / / edited by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.

• Superior document: Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography, 1574-4493
• TeilnehmendeR: Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Leiden series in comparative historiography ; Volume 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The end of the Cold War reshuffled the power relations between former friends and enemies. In Broken Narratives the contributors offer an account of the consequences of the end of the Cold War for the (re-)telling of history in film, literature and academic historiography in Europe and East Asia. Despite the post-modern claim that there is no need for a master-narrative, the contributions to this book show that we are in the middle of an intense and difficult search for a common understanding of the past. However, instead of common narratives polyphony and dissonances are produced which reflect a world in a period of transition. As the contributions to this volume show, the year 1989 has generated broken narratives. Contributors include: Peter Verstraten, Rotem Kowner, Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Carsten Schäfer, Martin Gieselmann, Yonson Ahn, Chang Lung-chih, Andrea Riemenschnitter, Shingo Minamizuka, Petra Buchholz, and Tatiana Zhurzhenko.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Writing History into Broken Narratives / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- “Europe in the Mist”: The Imaginary of European History in Lars von Trier’s Europa and in Dancer in the Dark / Peter Verstraten -- Hiroshima as a Personal and National Allegory: Revisiting Hiroshima mon amour and H Story / Rotem Kowner -- The Individual and the War: Re-remembering the Sino-Japanese War in the TV series A Spring River Flows East / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Carsten Schäfer -- Chinese Cinema in the Post-Cold War Era and the Legacy of the Sino-Japanese War: Devils on the Doorstep and Purple Sunset / Martin Gieselmann -- Rewriting the History of Colonialism in South Korea / Yonson Ahn -- Colonialism and Modernity in Taiwan: Reflections on Contemporary Taiwanese Historiography / Lung-chih Chang -- Staging Local History between Empires: Shandong Boxer Resistance as Maoqiang Opera / Andrea Riemenschnitter -- The “Third Road” Concept in 1956 Hungary / Shingo Minamizuka -- Confessions of Japanese POWs after Re-education in China / Petra Buchholz -- Concluding Remarks: The Geopolitics of Memory / Tatiana Zhurzhenko -- Index / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.