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SHADOWS OF TRAUMA
MEMORY AND THE POLITICS OF POSTWAR IDENTITY |
| By: |
Aleida Assmann, Sarah Clift (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0823267288 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780823267286 |
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| Publisher: |
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 December, 2015 |
| Pages: |
312 |
| Description: |
The book traces the process of creating of a new German memory of the Holocaust after the fall of the Wall. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which Germany's new `memory culture' emerged as a collective project and work in progress. |
| Synopsis: |
We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the lived experience of survivors and witnesses.Shadows of Trauma analyzes the transformation of the past from an individual experience to a collective construction, with special attention to the tensions that arise when personal experience collides with official commemoration.In addition to surveying memory's important terms and distinctions, Assmann traces the process that emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall, of creating a new German memory of the Holocaust. Assmann revisits the pitfalls of "false memory" and lingering forms of denial and repression, as well as the new twenty-first-centurydiscourses, such as that of German "victimhood," as well as the new memory sites for a future in which German memory will be increasingly oriented toward a European context.Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which "memory culture" has emerged as a collective project and a work in progress. |
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US |
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Fordham University Press |
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