{"id":33971,"date":"2022-12-29T22:29:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T22:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=33971"},"modified":"2022-12-29T22:30:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T22:30:03","slug":"after-memory-world-war-ii-in-contemporary-eastern-european-literatures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=33971","title":{"rendered":"After Memory: World War II in Contemporary Eastern European Literatures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Edited by Matthias Schwartz, Nina Weller and Heike Winkel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Even seventy-five years after the end of World War II, the commemorative cultures surrounding the War and the Holocaust in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe are anything but fixed. The fierce debates on how to deal with the past among the newly constituted nation states in these regions have already received much attention by scholars in cultural and memory studies. The present volume posits that literature as a medium can help us understand the shifting attitudes towards World War II and the Holocaust in post-Communist Europe in recent years. These shifts point to new commemorative cultures shaping up \u2018after memory\u2019. Contemporary literary representations of World War II and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe do not merely extend or replace older practices of remembrance and testimony, but reflect on these now defunct or superseded narratives. New narratives of remembrance are conditioned by a fundamentally new social and political context, one that emerged from the devaluation of socialist commemorative rituals and as a response to the loss of private and family memory narratives. The volume offers insights into the diverse literatures of Eastern Europe and their ways of depicting the area\u2019s contested heritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Author information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthias Schwartz<\/strong>, Leibniz-Zentrum f\u00fcr Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin; <strong>Nina Weller<\/strong>, Europa-Universit\u00e4t Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder); <strong>Heike Winkel<\/strong>, Berlin.\u3000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>After Memory: Introduction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthias Schwartz, Nina Weller and Heike Winkel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Growing in the Cracks: On Ecologies of the Margins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>bellu&amp; bellu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>I IMAGINARY ADOPTIONS: FAMILY HISTORIES AND PERSONAL LEGACIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bodies of Evidence: Memory, the Forensic Imagination and Family Histories about former Yugoslavia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephenie Young<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Transnational Aspects of Postmemory in Third-Generation Fiction: The \u2018Contrapuntal\u2019 Cases of Piotr Pazi\u0144ski and Erwin Mortier<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kris Van Heuckelom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ghost-Writing World War II Memories: Romanian Holocaust Survivors\u2019 Life Stories in Post-Cold War Western Societies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dana Mih\u0103ilescu<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Legacies of Stalinism and the Gulag: Manifestations of Trauma and Post Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ernst van Alphen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>II REVISIONIST APPROPRIATIONS: NATIONAL BELONGINGS AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is the Past a Secret Language? The Jewish Other and the Holocaust in Iurii Vynnychuk\u2019s Novel Tango of Death<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roman Dubasevych<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Post-Imperial Resentments: Alternative Histories of World War II in Popular Post-Soviet Speculative Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Galina<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chetniks and Partisans: Conflicting Narratives in Contemporary Serbian Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Davor Beganovi\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Delectatio Morosa: Reflections on Affective Compensation, Conflation, and Fantasy in Polish Memory Culture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joanna Ni\u017cy\u0144ska<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>III FICTIONAL INTERVENTIONS: ALTERNATE NARRATIVES AND SUBVERTED MYTHOLOGIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2018Spectral Stories\u2019: Fictional Re-Inventions of the Holocaust in Contemporary Polish Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aleksandra Ubertowska<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Counterfactuals and (Counter)memory: Im\/possible Modes of \u2018Undoing\u2019 the Great Patriotic War<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brigitte Obermayr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The \u2018Gift of Memory\u2019 and the \u2018Gift of Oblivion\u2019: Holocaust and World War II in Contemporary Hungarian Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephan Krause<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>De-Mythologising History: On the Fictional and Phantasmatic Dismantling of the Leningrad Blockade Narrative<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nina Weller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>IV IMAGINATIVE RECONFIGURATIONS: AVERAGE HEROES AND AMBIVALENT SUBJECTIVITIES<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Digging up Skulls, Fighting with Words: On Radka Denemarkov\u00e1\u2019s Novel Money from Hitler<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heike Winkel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Layers of the Crypt: Baltic Women\u2019s Postmemory of World War II in Life Stories and Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tiina Kirss and Rutt Hinrikus<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bridging the Gaps: The Poetics of Postmemory in the Czech Graphic Novel Alois Nebel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madlene Hagemann and Gernot Howanitz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Obsessed with the Past: On the Topicality of the Historical Novel in Eastern Europe Today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthias Schwartz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Appendix<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Acknowledgments<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notes on Contributors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Index<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Language: 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