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Memory and Political Change, edited by Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt

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Memory and Political Change

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767502917

edited by Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt

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Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions

Cover; Contents; Foreword: Remembrance as a Human Right; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Memory and Political Change: Introduction 1Aleida Assmann and Linda Shortt; Part I: Transgenerational Transmission; 1 Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss; 2 The Emotional Legacy of the National Socialist Past in Post-War Germany; Part II: Instruments of Change; 3 To Remember or to Forget: Which Way Out of a Shared History of Violence?; 4 Between Pragmatism, Coercion and Fear: Chosen Amnesia after the Rwandan Genocide5 From Domestic to International Instruments for Dealing with a Violent Past: Causes, Concomitants and Consequences for Democratic TransitionsPart III: Re-Imagining the Past for the Future; 6 Re-Imagining East Germany in the Berlin Republic: Jana Hensel, GDR Memory and the Transitional Generation; 7 South African Transition in the Literary Imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu; 8 'That's Not A Story I Could Tell.' Commemorating the Other Side of the Colonial Frontier in Australian Literature of Reconciliation; Part IV: Resistance to Change9 Deep Memory and Narrative Templates: Conservative Forces in Collective Memory10 The 'Myth' of the Self: The Georgian National Narrative and Quest for 'Georgianness'; 11 Memory Specificity Across Cultures; Name Index; Subject Index;