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Record Nr.

UNINA9910251450403321

Titolo

The twentieth century in European memory : transcultural mediation and reception / edited by Tea Sindbaek Andersen, Barbara Törnquist-Plewa

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brill, 2017

Leiden ; Boston, : Brill, [2017]

ISBN

90-04-35235-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 350 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics ; vol. 34

Altri autori (Persone)

Sindbæk AndersenTea

Törnquist PlewaBarbara

Disciplina

940.5

Soggetti

Collective memory - Europe

Memory - Social aspects - Europe

Europe History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: on transcultural memory and reception / Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Astrid Erll -- Part I. Actors and practices in transcultural transmission and reception -- Cross-border collaboration and the construction of memory narratives in Europe / Sara Jones -- The Polish elites' struggle for recognition of the experience of communism in the European Union / Zdzislaw Mach and Magdalena Gora -- Answering back to presumed accusations: Serbian First World War memories and the question of historical responsibility / Ismar Dedovic and Tea Sindbæk Andersen -- Beyond local memories: exhumations of Francoism's victims as counter-discourse during the Spanish transition to democracy / Zoe de Kerangat -- Double victims and agents of change in Europe's margins: Estonian emigrants sharing "their" repressive Soviet past in the Netherlands / Inge Melchior -- Part II. Content and media in transcultural transmission and reception -- Commemorating a war that never came: the Cold War as counter-factual war memory / Rosanna Farbol -- Jews and the holocaust in Poland's memoryscapes: an inquiry into transcultural amnesia / Slawomir Kapralski -- Neither rupture nor continuity: memorializing



the dawn of the space age in contemporary Russian cinematography / Natalija Majsova -- Literary mediation and reception of memories of war: Hallgrimur Hallgrimsson's "Under the republic's flag" / Daisy Neijmann and Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir -- The Italian Hall tragedy, 1913: a hundred years of remediated memories / Anne Heimo -- How does this monument make you feel? Measuring emotional responses to war memorials in Croatia / Vjeran Pavlakovic and Benedikt Perak -- Transnational holocaust memory, digital culture, and the end of reception studies / Wulf Kansteiner.