Wow! eBook
Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe 1st ed. 2013 Edition
Author(s): Uilleam Blacker (Author), Alexander Etkind (Author), J. Fedor (Editor)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 18 Sept. 2013
- Edition: 1st ed. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1349458260
- ISBN-13: 9781349458264
Book Description
It is the aim of this volume to investigate how academic practices of Memory Studies are being applied, adapted, and transformed in the countries of East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. It affords a new, startlingly different perspective for scholars of both Eastern European history and Memory Studies.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘The contributors to this volume explore the difficult challenges facing Europe in reaching common understandings of very different historical memories of Holocaust and Gulag. The editors have brought together scholars who cross the boundaries of humanistic disciplines. Above all, they have found scholars who have been brave enough to learn about the other half of Europe.’ – Mark von Hagen, Arizona State University
‘A compelling volume that powerfully challenges the Western canon of Memory Studies to define a new age of cultural memory in the East.’ – Andrew Hoskins, Editor-in-Chief, Memory Studies
About the Author
Aleida Assman, University of Konstanz, Germany Nancy Condee, University of Pittsburgh, USA Mischa Gabowitsch, Einstein Forum, State University of New York at Potsdam, USA Ilya Kalinin, St. Petersburg State University, Russia Simon Lewis, Kings College, University of Cambridge, UK Andrzej Nowak, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland Andrei Portnov, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Natan Sznaider, Academic College, Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel Jay Winter, Yale University, USA Harald Wydra, University of Cambridge, UK
