The work of memory : new directions in the study of German society and culture /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Confino, Alon, Fritzsche, Peter, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2002]
Subjects:	Germany > Civilization. Memory > Social aspects > Germany. Memorials > Germany. Germany > Historiography. National socialism > Psychological aspects. Political culture > Germany.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: noises of the past / Alon Confino and Peter Fritzsche
Historicity. From presence to remembrance: the transformation of memory in the German Reformation / Craig Koslofsky
Memory, history, and the Jewish question: universal citizenship and the colonization of Jewish memory / Jonathan M. Hess
How nostalgia narrates modernity / Peter Fritzsche
Masters of memory: the strategic use of autobiographical memory by the German nobility / Marcus Funck and Stephan Malinowski
Everyday life. Hildesheim in an age of pestilence: on the birth, death, and resurrection of normalcy / Andrew Stuart Bergerson
Awakening from war: history, trauma, and testimony in Heinrich Böll / Elizabeth Snyder Hook
Memory and existence: implications of the Wende / Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke
Materiality. An economy of memory: psychiatrists, veterans, and traumatic narratives in Weimar Germany / Paul Lerner
Public relations as a site of memory: the case of West German industry and national socialism / S. Jonathan Wiesen
Gender, public policy, and memory: waiting wives and war widows in the postwar Germanys / Elizabeth Heineman
Epilogue: dangerous memories / Steven T. Ostovich.