In Fitting Memory
Author: Sybil Milton
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Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780608105680
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Civil Society and Memory in Postwar Germany
Author: Jenny Wüstenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1107177464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyzes postwar Germany to show how social movements shape public memory and influence democratization through cooperation and conflict with government.
The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe
Author: Richard Ned Lebow
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006-09-20
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780822338178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparative case studies of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia).
After the Deportation
Author: Philip Nord
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1108478905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the change in memory regime in postwar France, from one centered on the concentration camps to one centered on the Holocaust.
Yasukuni Shrine
Author: Akiko Takenaka
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2015-07-31
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0824856937
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first extensive English-language study of Yasukuni Shrine as a war memorial. It explores the controversial shrine’s role in waging war, promoting peace, honoring the dead, and, in particular, building Japan’s modern national identity. It traces Yasukuni’s history from its conceptualization in the final years of the Tokugawa period and Japan’s wars of imperialism to the present. Author Akiko Takenaka departs from existing scholarship on Yasukuni by considering various themes important to the study of war and its legacies through a chronological and thematic survey of the shrine, emphasizing the spatial practices that took place both at the shrine and at regional sites associated with it over the last 150 years. Rather than treat Yasukuni as a single, unchanging ideological entity, she takes into account the social and political milieu, maps out gradual transformations in both its events and rituals, and explicates the ideas that the shrine symbolizes. Takenaka illuminates the ways the shrine’s spaces were used during wartime, most notably in her reconstructions, based on primary sources, of visits by war-bereaved military families to the shrine during the Asia-Pacific War. She also traces important episodes in Yasukuni’s postwar history, including the filing of lawsuits against the shrine and recent attempts to reinvent it for the twenty-first century. Through a careful analysis of the shrine’s history over one and a half centuries, her work views the making and unmaking of a modern militaristic Japan through the lens of Yasukuni Shrine. Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar is a skilled and innovative examination of modern and contemporary Japan’s engagement with the critical issues of war, empire, and memory. It will be of particular interest to readers of Japanese history and culture as well as those who follow current affairs and foreign relations in East Asia. Its discussion of spatial practices in the life of monuments and the political use of images, media, and museum exhibits will find a welcome audience among those engaged in memory, visual culture, and media studies.
Multidirectional Memory
Author: Michael Rothberg
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009-06-15
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0804762171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMultidirectional Memory brings together Holocaust studies and postcolonial studies for the first time to put forward a new theory of cultural memory and uncover an unacknowledged tradition of exchange between the legacies of genocide and colonialism.
Memory Passages
Author: Natasha Goldman
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2020-02-20
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1439914230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor decades, artists and architects have struggled to relate to the Holocaust in visual form, resulting in memorials that feature a diversity of aesthetic strategies. In Memory Passages, Natasha Goldman analyzes both previously-overlooked and internationally-recognized Holocaust memorials in the United States and Germany from the postwar period to the present, drawing on many historical documents for the first time. From the perspectives of visual culture and art history, the book examines changing attitudes toward the Holocaust and the artistic choices that respond to it. The book introduces lesser-known sculptures, such as Nathan Rapoport’s Monument to the Six Million Jewish Martyrs in Philadelphia, as well as internationally-acclaimed works, such as Peter Eisenman’s Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin. Other artists examined include Will Lammert, Richard Serra, Joel Shapiro, Gerson Fehrenbach, Margit Kahl, and Andy Goldsworthy.Archival documents and interviews with commissioners, survivors, and artists reveal the conversations and decisions that have shaped Holocaust memorials. Memory Passages suggests that memorial designers challenge visitors to navigate and activate spaces to engage with history and memory by virtue of walking or meandering. This book will be valuable for anyone teaching—or seeking to better understand—the Holocaust.
At Memory's Edge
Author: James Edward Young
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2000-01-01
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780300094138
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? In 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in World War II. As the only foreigner and only Jew on the panel, Young gained a unique perspective on Germany's fraught efforts to memorialize the Holocaust. In this book, he tells for the first time the inside story of Germany's national Holocaust memorial and his own role in it. In exploring Germany's memorial crisis, Young also asks the more general question of how a generation of contemporary artists can remember an event like the Holocaust, which it never knew directly. Young examines the works of a number of vanguard artists in America and Europe--including Art Spiegelman, Shimon Attie, David Levinthal, and Rachel Whiteread--all born after the Holocaust but indelibly shaped by its memory as passed down through memoirs, film, photographs, and museums. In the context of the moral and aesthetic questions raised by these avant-garde projects, Young offers fascinating insights into the controversy surrounding Berlin's newly opened Jewish museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, as well as Germany's soon-to-be-built national Holocaust memorial, designed by Peter Eisenman. Illustrated with striking images in color and black-and-white, At Memory's Edge is the first book in any language to chronicle these projects and to show how we remember the Holocaust in the after-images of its history.
Places of Public Memory
Author: Greg Dickinson
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2010-08-02
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0817356134
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough we live in a time when memory seems to be losing its hold on communities, memory remains central to personal, communal, and national identities. And although popular and public discourses from speeches to films invite a shared sense of the past, official sites of memory such as memorials, museums, and battlefields embody unique rhetorical principles. Places of Public Memory: The Rhetoric of Museums and Memorials is a sustained and rigorous consideration of the intersections of memory, place, and rhetoric. From the mnemonic systems inscribed upon ancient architecture to the roadside acci
From Monuments to Traces
Author: Rudy Koshar
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780520922525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text constructs a framework in which to examine the subject of German collective memory, which for more than half a century has been shaped by the experience of Nazism, World War II and the Holocaust. Beginning with national unification in 1870-71 it follows through to reunification in 1990.
