Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: The Ghosts of Others (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)

Synopsis

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe, displaced as a result of wartime destruction, deportations and redrawing of state boundaries, found themselves living in cities that were filled with the traces of the foreign cultures of the former inhabitants. In the immediate post-war period these traces were not acknowledged, the new inhabitants going along with official policies of oblivion, the national narratives of new post-war regimes, and the memorializing of the victors. In time, however, and increasingly over recent decades, the former "other pasts" have been embraced and taken on board as part of local cultural memory. This book explores this interesting and increasingly important phenomenon. It examines official ideologies, popular memory, literature, film, memorialization and tourism to show how other pasts are being incorporated into local cultural memory. It relates these developments to cultural theory and argues that the relationship between urban space, cultural memory and identity in Eastern Europe is increasingly becoming a question not only of cultural politics, but also of consumption and choice, alongside a tendency towards the cosmopolitanization of memory.

Copyright:

2019

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Publisher Quality

Book Size:

242 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781317428398

Related ISBNs:

9781315690865, 9781138914360, 9781138914360, 9780367785628, 9781315690865, 9781138914360

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/10/20

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Social Studies

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