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Record Nr.

UNINA9910588591803321

Titolo

Regions of memory : transnational formations / / edited by Simon Lewis [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

3-030-93705-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Disciplina

909

Soggetti

Collective memory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Regions of Memory in Theory -- Thinking Regionally About Memory -- Structure of the Volume -- References -- Part I: Historical Regions of Memory -- The Cold War and Regions of Memory -- The Politicization of Victimhood -- Sharing a Divided Past -- Nuclear Colonialism -- Military History/Heritage Tourism -- References -- Human Rights and Regions of Memory: The Case of the International People's Tribunal on Crimes Against Humanity in Indonesia 1965 -- Introduction -- Human Rights Regions of Memory -- The 1965 Genocide -- Failed Indonesian Efforts to Address this Case -- The People's Tribunal Aims and Format -- Official Indonesian Responses to the Tribunal -- The Netherlands and Regions of Memory -- Conclusions -- References -- The Legacy of Empire in East-Central Europe: Fractured Nations and Divided Loyalties -- A Region of Empires -- From Empire to Nation State -- Empire Upon Empire -- Fault Lines and Fractures -- "Europe" and Empire -- References -- Part II: Political Regions of Memory -- Partisan History and the East European Region of Memory -- Introduction -- East European Region of Memory -- Partisan Histories and the Partisan Subject -- Double Genocide, Double Occupation, and the Uniqueness of the Holocaust -- National Memory Politics -- The European Union -- Partisan Critiques of Partisan Histories -- Conclusion -- References -- China, the Maritime Silk Road,



and the Memory of Colonialism in the Asia Region -- The Silk Road, the Maritime Silk Road, and the One Belt, One Road Project -- Creating a Past for Shanghai Before the Opium War: The Shanghai History Museum -- The Maritime Silk Road and the Silk Road in the Hong Kong's Museums -- Chinese Civilization in the History of Southern Asia: The Galle National Museum -- Conclusions -- References.

Part III: Cultural Regions of Memory -- Articulations of Memory: Mediation and the Making of Mnemo-Regions -- Postnational Memory Studies -- Mediation and Cultural Borders -- Four Types of Articulation -- Wiki-memory -- Conclusion -- References -- Remembering the Violence of (De)colonization in Southern Africa: From Witnessing to Activist Genealogies in Literature and Film -- In Search for a Region of Memory: Official vs. Alternative Memoryscapes -- Confronting the Violence of the Struggle: Witnessing and Questioning Reconciliation during the 1990 and 2000s -- Voices of the "Born Frees": Postmemory and Genealogies of (De)coloniality -- Conclusion -- References -- Transoceanic Entanglements: Remembering Forced Labor Migration in M.G. Vassanji's The In-Between World of Vikram Lall and Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor's Dust -- Kenya Unbound -- Transregional Mnemoscapes -- Towards a Transoceanic Perspective -- References -- Afterword: The Discourse of Regions -- Index.