Memory and Political Change
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xviii, 223 pp.
Contains illustrations, index
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
ISBN 978-0-230-30200-6 (pbk); 978-0-230-35424-1 (online)
"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." (Publisher description)
Memory and Political Change: Introduction / Aleida Assmann and Linda Shortt, 1
I. TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION
1 Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss / Gabriele Schwab, 17
2 The Emotional Legacy of the National Socialist Past in Post-War Germany / Gudrun Brockhaus, 34
II. INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE
3 To Remember or to Forget: Which Way Out of a Shared History of Violence? / Aleida Assmann, 53
4 Between Pragmatism, Coercion and Fear: Chosen Amnesia after the Rwandan Genocide / Susanne Buckley-Zistel, 72
5 From Domestic to International Instruments for Dealing with a Violent Past: Causes, Concomitants and Consequences for Democratic Transitions / Brigitte Weiffen, 89
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 / Linda Shortt, 115
7 South African Transition in the Literary Imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu / Monika Reif-Huelser, 130
8 'That's Not A Story I Could Tell.' Commemorating the Other Side of the Colonial Frontier in Australian Literature of Reconciliation / Anja Schwarz, 150
IV. RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
9 Deep Memory and Narrative Templates: Conservative Forces in Collective Memory / James V. Wertsch, 173
10 The 'Myth' of the Self: The Georgian National Narrative and Quest for 'Georgianness' / Nutsa Batiashvili, 186
11 Memory Specificity Across Cultures / Angela H. Gutchess and Maya Siegel, 201
I. TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION
1 Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss / Gabriele Schwab, 17
2 The Emotional Legacy of the National Socialist Past in Post-War Germany / Gudrun Brockhaus, 34
II. INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE
3 To Remember or to Forget: Which Way Out of a Shared History of Violence? / Aleida Assmann, 53
4 Between Pragmatism, Coercion and Fear: Chosen Amnesia after the Rwandan Genocide / Susanne Buckley-Zistel, 72
5 From Domestic to International Instruments for Dealing with a Violent Past: Causes, Concomitants and Consequences for Democratic Transitions / Brigitte Weiffen, 89
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 / Linda Shortt, 115
7 South African Transition in the Literary Imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu / Monika Reif-Huelser, 130
8 'That's Not A Story I Could Tell.' Commemorating the Other Side of the Colonial Frontier in Australian Literature of Reconciliation / Anja Schwarz, 150
IV. RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
9 Deep Memory and Narrative Templates: Conservative Forces in Collective Memory / James V. Wertsch, 173
10 The 'Myth' of the Self: The Georgian National Narrative and Quest for 'Georgianness' / Nutsa Batiashvili, 186
11 Memory Specificity Across Cultures / Angela H. Gutchess and Maya Siegel, 201
