Shadows of Trauma - Memory and the Politics of Postwar Identity (Paperback)

We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the lived experience of survivors and witnesses. Shadows of Trauma analyzes the transformation of the past from an individual experience to a collective construction, with special attention to the tensions that arise when personal experience collides with official commemoration. In addition to surveying memory's important terms and distinctions, Assmann traces the process that emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall, of creating a new German memory of the Holocaust. Assmann revisits the pitfalls of "false memory" and lingering forms of denial and repression, as well as the new twenty-first-century discourses, such as that of German "victimhood," as well as the new memory sites for a future in which German memory will be increasingly oriented toward a European context. Combining theoretical analysis with historical case studies, the book revisits crucial debates and controversial issues out of which "memory culture" has emerged as a collective project and a work in progress.

General

Imprint:	Fordham University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2015
Authors:	Aleida Assmann
Translators:	Sarah Clift
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade / Trade
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-8232-6728-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	0-8232-6728-8
Barcode:	9780823267286

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