Shadows of trauma : memory and the politics of postwar identity /
"We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, the memory of the Holocaust is less and less anchored in the lived experience of survivors and witnesses...
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
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- Preface to the English Language Edition
- Introduction
- Part I: Theoretical Foundations
- 1. From Individual to Collective Constructions of the Past
- 2. Basic Concepts and Themes of Individual and Collective Memory
- Part II: Analyses and Case Studies
- 3. How True are Memories?
- 4. False Memories: Pathologies of Identity at the End of the Twentieth Century
- 5. Incorrect Memories: On the Normative Power of Social Frameworks of Memory
- 6. Five Strategies of Represssion
- 7. German Narratives of Victimhood
- 8. Points of Intersection Between Lived Memory and Cultural Memory
- 9. Lieux de Mémoire in Time and Space
- 10. The Future of Holocaust Memory
- 11. Europe as a Memory Community
- Conclusion: Shadows of Trauma
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.