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Even seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the
commemorative cultures surrounding the War and the Holocaust in
Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe are anything but fixed.
The fierce debates on how to deal with the past among the newly
constituted nation states in these regions have already received
much attention by scholars in cultural and memory studies. The
present volume posits that literature as a medium can help us
understand the shifting attitudes towards World War II and the
Holocaust in post-Communist Europe in recent years. These shifts
point to new commemorative cultures shaping up 'after memory'.
Contemporary literary representations of World War II and the
Holocaust in Eastern Europe do not merely extend or replace older
practices of remembrance and testimony, but reflect on these now
defunct or superseded narratives. New narratives of remembrance are
conditioned by a fundamentally new social and political context,
one that emerged from the devaluation of socialist commemorative
rituals and as a response to the loss of private and family memory
narratives. The volume offers insights into the diverse literatures
of Eastern Europe and their ways of depicting the area's contested
heritage.
The demise of state Socialisms caused radical social, cultural and
economic changes in Eastern Europe. Since then, young people have
been confronted with fundamental disruptions and transformations to
their daily environment, while an unsettling, globalized world
substantially reshapes local belongings and conventional values. In
times of multiple instabilities and uncertainties, this volume
argues, young people prefer to try to adjust to given circumstances
than to adopt the behaviour of potential rebellious, adolescent
role models, dissident counter-cultures or artistic breakings of
taboo. Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context takes
this situation as a starting point for an examination of
generational change, cultural belongings, political activism and
everyday practices of young people in different Eastern European
countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. It argues that the
conditions of global change not only call for a differentiated
evaluation of youth cultures, but also for a revision of our
understanding of 'youth' itself - in Eastern Europe and beyond.
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