Coming to terms with a troubled past is the mark of the modern condition. But how does memory operate? This powerful collection of original essays probes this question by focusing on Germany, where historical trauma and political turbulence over the past century have deeply scarred modern memory and identity. Tracing the role of memory in German history between the Reformation and reunification, contributors show how memory has a history and the presence of the past has historical context. With scholarly zeal and keen insight, these essays draw on ghost stories and the postwar fiction of Heinrich Bll, among other memory sites, escorting the reader through the streets of Alt Hildesheim and the grocery aisles of East Germany. By historicizing memory, this volume surpasses the efforts of previous memory scholarship in confronting Germany's National Socialist past. Standard approaches to memory in modern Germany have explored how the past represents social relations and is commemorated in literature, art, and personal narrative. In taking memory 'out of the museum' and 'beyond the monument,' "The Work of Memory" investigates the ways memory forms social relations and is integral to the construction of identities, communities, and policies. Profound and provocative, "The Work of Memory" contributes to a much-needed anthropology of memory in modern Germany.
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"This is most certainly not yet another book on memory with the air of deja vu many volumes inevitably have, but an innovative and challenging contribution, with an excellent introduction." -- Pieter Lagrou, author of The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965
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In the classical world, memory was an aspect of rhetoric, which treatises divided into its five fundamentals: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronuntiatio. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sagte kein einziges, noble autobiographies, waiting wives, pension neurosis, war neurotics, dangerous memories, local public sphere, war disability, informal social relations, noble memory, war widows, unmasterable past Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
West German, New York, World War, East Germans, Third Reich, French Revolution, National Socialism, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, Rahel Varnhagen, Oxford University Press, Heinrich Böll, History of Neighborliness, Peter Fritzsche, Great War, Nervenklinik Bestand, American Historical Review, Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press, Alon Confino, Chapel Hill, Cornell University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Harvard University Press, Maurice Halbwachs New!
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In the classical world, memory was an aspect of rhetoric, which treatises divided into its five fundamentals: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and pronuntiatio. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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West German, New York, World War, East Germans, Third Reich, French Revolution, National Socialism, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, Rahel Varnhagen, Oxford University Press, Heinrich Böll, History of Neighborliness, Peter Fritzsche, Great War, Nervenklinik Bestand, American Historical Review, Princeton University Press, University of Chicago Press, Alon Confino, Chapel Hill, Cornell University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Harvard University Press, Maurice Halbwachs New!
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- The collective memory (Harper colophon books ; CN/800) by Maurice Halbwachs on 5 pages
- The Harmony of Illusions: Inventing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder by Allan Young on 4 pages
- On Collective Memory (Heritage of Sociology Series) by Maurice Halbwachs on page 84, page 168, and page 210
- Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys by Jeffrey Herf in Front Matter, page 168, and page 234
- History and Memory by Jacques Le Goff on page 168, and page 209
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- Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953 by Jay Howard Geller in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Preservation, Tourism And Nationalism: The Jewel of the German Past (Heritage, Culture and Identity) (Heritage, Culture and Identity) by Joshua Hagen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Coping With the Nazi Past: West German Debates on Nazism and Generational Conflict, 1955-1975 (Studies in German History) (Vol 2) by Philipp Gassert on page 27
- Hysterical Men: War, Psychiatry, and the Politics of Trauma in Germany, 1890-1930 (Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry) by Paul Lerner in Back Matter
- Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933-1939: Before War and Holocaust by Dan Stone in Back Matter
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