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Informationen zum Autor Eric Langenbacher is a Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Honors and Special Programs in the Department of Government, Georgetown University. He is editor of Between Left and Right: The 2009 Bundestag Election and the Transformation of the German Party System (Berghahn, 2010). Bill Niven is Professor of Contemporary German History at Nottingham Trent University. His recent publications include The Buchenwald Child: Truth, Fiction and Propaganda (Camden House, 2007; German edition, 2009), and Memorialization in Germany since 1945 (edited with Chloe Paver, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). Ruth Wittlinger (1961-2020) was a Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Affairs at the University of Durham, UK. She authored German National Identity in the Twenty-First Century: A Different Republic After All? (Basingstoke, 2010). Klappentext The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today's eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more "self-critical" memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the past. The increasing dissatisfaction among scholars with the blanket, undifferentiated use of the term "collective memory" is evolving in new directions. This volume brings the tension into focus while addressing the state of memory theory itself. "This is a very interesting and well-researched contribution to the memory studies literature. The individual chapters are based on sophisticated research and provide up-to-date insight into the debates in their fields of specialization. Especially impressive is that, across the board, they draw on literatures and source materials in the languages of interest, so that the volume brings together a new set of materials for an English-speaking audience." * Jenny Wustenberg,School of International Service, American University Zusammenfassung The collapse of the Iron Curtain! the renationalization of eastern Europe and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in today's eastern Europe. At the same time! memory in western Europe has changed significantly in recent years... Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Eric Langenbacher, Bill Niven, & Ruth Wittlinger Chapter 1. Dynamics of Generational Memory: Understanding the East-West Divide Harald Wydra Chapter 2. Time-out for National Heroes? Gender as an Analytical Category in the Study of Memory Cultures Helle Bjerg & Claudia Lenz Chapter 3. The Memory-Market Dictum: Gauging the Inherent Bias in Different Data Sources Common in Collective Memory Studies Mark A. Wolfgram Chapter 4. Remembering WWII in Europe - Structures of Remembrance Christian Gudehus Chapter 5. Ach(tung) Europa: German Writers and the Establishment of a Collective Memory of Europe Hans-Joachim Hahn Chapter 6. Critiquing the Stranger, Inventing Europe: Integration and the Fascist Legacy Mark Wagstaff Chapter 7. The Thread That Binds Together: Lidice, Oradour, Putten, and the Memory of World War II Madelon de Keizer Chapter 8. Memory of World War II in France: National and Transnational Dynamics Henning Meyer Chapter 9. The Field of the Blackbirds and the Battle for Europe Anna Di Lellio Chapter 10. Transformation of Memory in Croatia: Removing Yugoslav Anti-Fascism Ljiljana Radonic <...
