Germany, Poland, and Postmemorial Relations

In Search of a Livable Past
Herausgeber: Kopp, K.; Nizynska, J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Covering the period following the collapse of communism, the unification of Germany, and Poland's accession to the EU, this collection focuses on the interdependencies of German, Polish, and Jewish collective memories and their dialogic, transnational character, showing the collective nature of postmemory and the pressures that shape it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us / Palgrave Macmillan
• 2012 edition
• Seitenzahl: 287
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781349340811
• ISBN-10: 1349340812
• Artikelnr.: 45078663

Autorenporträt

KRISTIN KOPPAssistant Professor of German in the Department of German & Russian Studies at the University of Missouri, USA. JOANNA NIZYNSKAAssociate Professor of Polish Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Between Entitlement and Reconciliation: Germany and Poland's
Post-Memory after 1989; K.Kopp & J.Nizynska PART I: THE POLITICS OF
POSTMEMORY Shadows of Memory in Polish-German Relations (1989-2005);
W.Jarzabek History by Decree? The Commission of Historians of the German
Democratic Republic and the People's Republic of Poland 1956-1990; S.Guth
'The Law Alleviates Concerns': Legal Dimensions of Polish-German
Reconciliation; P.Lutomski Eclipsing the Polish-German Past to Construct a
Post-Socialist Polish Memory-Culture; H.Hein-Kircher PART II: THE GRAND
NARRATIVES OF POSTMEMORY When Poland was Home: Nostalgic Returns in Grass
and Wolf; A.Bammer Declaring War: Attitudes Towards the Years 1939-1945 in
the Literature of the Post-1990s; P.Czaplinski Liberation from Memory:
Memory, Post-Memory, or Subverted Memory inWhat Does the Messenger Girl
Doby Foks & Libera; M.Zaleski Interviews with Jan T. Gross (2007/2009);
J.Labov & J.T.Gross Genre and Intervention: Reflections on the Reception of
Neighbors and Fear; J.Labov Relocating Auschwitz: Affective Relations in
the Jewish-German-Polish Troika; E.Lehrer The 'Lodzermensch': From Cultural
Contamination to Marketable Multiculturalism; W.W.Chu 'We are Prussia
Today': Polish-German Variations on a Vanished State; G.Thum