Germany, Poland and postmemorial relations: in search of a livable past

Germany, Poland, and Postmemorial Relations. addresses the relationship between German and Polish memory discourses and practices after 1989, following thecollapse of communism, the unification of Germany, and Poland's accession to the EU. As opposed to the bilateral approach of other memory studies, this volume focuses on the interdependencies of German, Polish, and Jewish collective memories and their dialogic, transnational character. The contributors pose critical questions about the dynamics of the public discourse of memory and their cultural manifestations. Their findings indicate shifts in the Grand Memorial Narrative of Polish-German relations, from an engagement with a politics of entitlement to an EU-facilitated politics of reconciliation. They expand the operative notion of postmemory from the individual dimension to the collective,and reveal postmemory's formation as vulnerable to political, cultural, and economic pressures. This volume is addressed to a broad academic and non-academic audience interested in Central European culture and history. INDICE: Introduction: Between Entitlement and Reconciliation: Germany and Poland's Post-Memory after 1989; .K.Kopp.& .J.Niżyńska. .PART I: THE POLITICS OF POSTMEMORY .Shadows of Memory in Polish-German Relations (1989-2005); .W.Jarząbek. .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.Czapliński. .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.

• ISBN: 978-0-230-33730-5
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 302
• Fecha Publicación: 11/05/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Desconocido