Peripheral Memories
Public and Private Forms of Experiencing and Narrating the Past
After a period of intense work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field of memory processes, namely those connected with war, persecution and expulsion. In this sense, the memory – or rather the trauma – of the Holocaust is paradigmatic for the entire research field. The Holocaust is furthermore increasingly understood as constitutive of a global memory community which transcends national memories and mediates universal values. The present volume diverges from this perspective by dealing also with everyday subjects of memory. This allows for a more complete view of the interdependencies between public and private memory and, more specifically, public and family memory.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Peripheral Memories - Introduction
Seiten 7 - 20 -
The Functions of Familial Memory and Processes of Identity
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"Totally Average Families"?
Seiten 33 - 50 -
The Aftermath of Violence
Seiten 51 - 68 -
Familial Discussions in the Context of Memory Research on the Second World War
Seiten 69 - 94 -
The Family as a Social Frame of Memory
Seiten 95 - 120 -
Private, Semi-Public, Published
Seiten 121 - 142 -
Curating People?
Seiten 143 - 160 -
Remembering the Home
Seiten 161 - 182 -
Public Discourse and Private Memory Processes in Luxembourgian Steel Worker Families
Seiten 183 - 202 -
Questioning the Cultural Memory of the 1960s
Seiten 203 - 218 -
Remembering Socialism, Living Post-Socialism
Seiten 219 - 238 -
"Actually we are Deeply Rooted in Austria"
Seiten 239 - 258 -
Narrated (Hi)Stories in an Intercultural Context
Seiten 259 - 282 -
Contributors
Seiten 283 - 288
20 September 2012, 288 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2116-7
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