Twentieth Century Wars in European Memory.
Title:
Twentieth Century Wars in European Memory.
Author:
Niznik, Jozef.
ISBN:
9783653028140
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (292 pages)
Series:
Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas ; v.1
Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- The Social Instruments of European Memory -- INTRODUCTION -- Places and Traces - Jay Winter -- Part I Symbolism of material objectificationsof the memory of war -- "Defensive Architecture" and World War II: The Maginot Line in Memory and Tourism - Bertram M. Gordon -- Forgotten Places of Memory: First World War Memorials in Portugal, 1919-1933 - Sílvia Correia -- Resonant Commemoration and the Trope of the Wall: Time and Memory Echoes in 20th-Century French Resistance War Memorials - Helen E Beale -- PART II Visualizing memory -- War, Memory and Photographic Traces - Julia Winckler -- Walking Reminders of the War: The Case of Facially Disfigured Veterans - Marjorie Gehrhardt -- Visualizing the Armenian Genocide: Photographic and Cinematographic Representation - Karina Dilanian-Pinkowicz -- Part III Memory for sale -- Memory for Sale: Local and National Interpretations of Brezhnev's Malaia zemlia - Vicky Davis -- War Tourism in Poland and Germany - Urszula Jarecka -- History, Memory or Propaganda: The Great War, the Martyred Soldier and 21st-Century Flemish Politics - Karen Shelby -- Part IV Memory within geographic space -- Slovenian Historiography and Collective Memory of the World War I in the First Yugoslavia (1918-1941) - Petra Svoljsak -- "Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning" or Landmarks: the Case of WWI Memory on the Border of Slovenia and Italy - Katja Skrlj -- Cuius regio, eius memoria. World War I Memorials in the Territory of Former East Prussia, Now within Poland. - Malgorzata Karczewska -- Representation of the Memory of Jewsin Physical Space as an Element of Polish Identity. A Case Study of a Town in Southern Poland. - Malgorzata Wloszycka -- 'From a Far Away Country': Some Aspectsof Czechoslovak Cultural Life in Britain During WWII - Jana Buresová.
Part V Individual experience of warand the collective memory -- Memory of War and Sex Differences - Barbara Szacka -- Contributors.
Abstract:
In various European countries the two world wars are remembered in very different ways, although everywhere one can find monuments which serve as material objectification of the memory of war. However, such objectifications not only determine certain patterns of remembrance and a specific perception of the past: they also contribute to local and/or national identity and create the basis for attitudes toward the other participants of war. As it happens, instruments of memory live their own life and the meanings they attach to particular events may be changed by historical and political processes. The question remaining in the background of this publication is whether we can make Europeans without European collective memory transgressing national perspectives. The memory of war, which inevitably shows the overall absurdity and tragedy of war no matter where and against whom fought, may be the primary candidate for such Europeanization.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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