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001 2011029568
003 DLC
005 20120522095914.0
008 110722s2012 nyu 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780230301993 (hbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a9780230302006 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aJC489$b.M46 2012
082 00 $a321.09$223
245 00 $aMemory and political change /$cedited by Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2012.
263 $a1201
300 $ap. cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- Part I. Transgenerational transmission. Replacement children: the transgenerational transmission of traumatic loss; the emotional legacy of the Nazi past in post-war Germany -- Part II. Instruments of change. To remember or to forget: which way out of a shared history of violence?; between pragmatism, coercion and fear: chosen amnesia after the Rwandan genocide; from domestic to international instruments for dealing with a violent past: causes, concomitants and consequences for democratic transitions; -- Part III. Re-imagining the past for the future. Re-imagining East Germany in the Berlin Republic; GDR memory and the transitional generation; South African transition in the literary imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu; commemorating the other side of the colonial frontier in Australian literature of reconciliation -- Part IV. Resistance to change. Deep memory and narrative templates: conservative forces in collective memory; the myth of the self: the Georgian national narrative and guest for Georgianness; memory across cultures.
650 0 $aRegime change$vCase studies.
650 0 $aMemory$xPolitical aspects$vCase studies.
650 0 $aCollective memory$xPolitical aspects$vCase studies.
650 0 $aPolitical violence$xPsychological aspects$vCase studies.
650 0 $aDemocratization$xPsychological aspects$vCase studies.
650 0 $aRegime change in literature.
650 0 $aDemocratization in literature.
650 0 $aPolitical violence in literature.
650 0 $aMemory in literature.
650 0 $aCollective memory in literature.
700 1 $aAssmann, Aleida.
700 1 $aShortt, Linda.