The work of memory : new directions in the study of German society and culture
Coming to terms with a troubled past is the mark of the modern condition. But how does memory operate? This title includes collection of essays that probes this question by focusing on Germany, where historical trauma and political turbulence over the past century have deeply scarred modern memory and identity.
Kongress Urbana (III.) 1998
265 pages ; 24 cm
9780252027178, 0252027175
47689908
Part 1. Historicity
From presence to remembrance / Craig Koslofsky
Memory, history, and the Jewish question / Jonathan M. Hess
How nostalgia narrates modernity / Peter Fritzsche
Masters of memory / Marcus Funck and Stephan Malinowski
Part 2. Everyday life
Hildesheim in an age of pestilence / Andrew Stuart Bergerson
Awakening from war / Heinrich Böll, Elizabeth Snyder Hook
Memory and existence / Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke
Part 3. Materiality
An economy of memory / Paul Lerner
Public relations as a site of memory / Jonathan Wiesen
Gender, public policy, and memory / Elizabeth Heineman