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Book SynopsisThe Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories of conflicts, world wars, dictatorship, genocide and mass killing. Focusing on the questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at the ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museum workers, artists, politicians and general audiences. Due to amplified mobility and communication as well as Europe’s changing institutional structure, such memories become increasingly transcultural, crossing cultural and political borders. This book brings together in-depth researched case studies of memory transmission and reception in different types of media, including films, literature, museums, political debate printed and digital media, as well as studies of personal and public reactions. Contributors are: Ismar Dedović, Astrid Erll, Rosanna Farbøl, Magdalena Góra, Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir, Anne Heimo, Sara Jones, Wulf Kansteiner, Slawomir Kapralski, Zoé de Kerangat, Zdzisław Mach, Natalija Majsova, Inge Melchior, Daisy Neijmann, Vjeran Pavlaković, Benedikt Perak, Tea Sindbæk Andersen, and Barbara Törnquist-Plewa.
Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: On Transcultural Memory and Reception Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Tea Sindbæk Andersen and Astrid Erll Part 1: Actors and Practices in Transcultural Transmission and Reception 2 Cross-Border Collaboration and the Construction of Memory Narratives in Europe Sara Jones 3 The Polish Elites’ Struggle for Recognition of the Experience of Communism in the European Union Zdzisław Mach and Magdalena Góra 4 Answering Back to Presumed Accusations: Serbian First World War Memories and the Question of Historical Responsibility Ismar Dedović and Tea Sindbæk Andersen 5 Beyond Local Memories: Exhumations of Francoism’s Victims as Counter-discourse during the Spanish Transition to Democracy Zoé de Kerangat 6 Double Victims and Agents of Change in Europe’s Margins: Estonian Emigrants Sharing ‘Their’ Repressive Soviet Past in the Netherlands Inge Melchior Part 2: Content and Media in Transcultural Transmission and Reception 7 Commemorating a War That Never Came: The Cold War as Counter-Factual War Memory Rosanna Farbøl 8 Jews and the Holocaust in Poland’s Memoryscapes: An Inquiry Into Transcultural Amnesia Slawomir Kapralski 9 Neither Rupture nor Continuity: Memorializing the Dawn of the Space Age in Contemporary Russian Cinematography Natalija Majsova 10 Literary Mediation and Reception of Memories of War: Hallgrímur Hallgrímsson’s ‘Under the Republic’s Flag’ Daisy Neijmann and Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir 11 The Italian Hall Tragedy, 1913: A Hundred Years of Remediated Memories Anne Heimo 12 How Does This Monument Make You Feel? Measuring Emotional Responses to War Memorials in Croatia Vjeran Pavlaković and Benedikt Perak 13 Transnational Holocaust Memory, Digital Culture, and the End of Reception Studies Wulf Kansteiner Index
