Dear all,
This recently published volume may be of interest to some of you. Featuring essays by Mary Fulbrook, Jay Winter and other distinguished contributors, it discusses - inter alia - cultural, social and political aspects of the aftermath in Germany of Europe’s three major twentieth-century conflicts.
Aftermath: Legacies and Memories of War in Europe, 1918–1945–1989
Edited by Nicholas Martin, Tim Haughton, and Pierre Purseigle
Ashgate. December 2014. ISBN:978-1-4094-4428-2. 254 pp.
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409444282
Focusing on three of the defining moments of the twentieth century – the end of the two World Wars and the collapse of the Iron Curtain – this volume presents a rich collection of authoritative essays, covering a wide range of thematic, regional, temporal and methodological perspectives.
By re-examining the traumatic legacies of the century’s three major conflicts, the volume illuminates a number of recurrent yet differentiated ideas concerning memorialisation, mythologisation, mobilisation, commemoration and confrontation, reconstruction and representation in the aftermath of conflict. The post-conflict relationship between the living and the dead, the contestation of memories and legacies of war in cultural and political discourses, and the significance of generations are key threads binding the collection together.
The collection presents a series of enlightening historical and cultural perspectives from leading scholars in the field, and pushes back the boundaries of the burgeoning field of the study of legacies and memories of war. Bringing together historians, literary scholars, political scientists and cultural studies experts to discuss the legacies and memories of war in Europe (1918–1945–1989), the collection makes an important contribution to the ongoing interdisciplinary conversation regarding the interwoven legacies of twentieth-century Europe’s three major conflicts.
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Contents:
Pierre Purseigle, Introduction: through the fog of war
Mary Fulbrook, Generations and the ruptures of 1918, 1945 and 1989 in Germany
John Paul Newman, Times of death: the Great War and Serbia’s 20th century
Geoffrey Swain, Politicising commemoration in 20th-century Latvia
Aaron William Moore, Pluralism and the problem with collective memory: Japanese peace and war museums in a comparative context
Stephen Forcer, Beyond mental: avant-garde culture and war
Tara Windsor, Between cultural conflict and cultural contact: German writers and cultural diplomacy in the aftermath of the First World War
Martin Hurcombe, The haunting of Roland D.: Roland Dorgelès, remembering the dead, and the long aftermath of the Great War (1919-1940)
Dan Todman, Defining deaths: Richard Titmuss’s Problems of Social Policy and the meaning of Britain’s Second World War
Gabriela Welch, Remembrance, religion and reconciliation after the fall of the Soviet Union
Jay Winter, Thinking about silence
Tim Haughton and Nicholas Martin, The long shadows and mixed modes of history: concluding reflections on the aftermath and legacies of war
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