By A. Assmann, L. Shortt
Whereas political platforms may well switch relatively fast, the social and cultural techniques of version and transformation take significantly longer. This quantity explores reminiscence as either a medium of and an obstacle to alter, providing an inroad into the issues, mechanisms and styles desirous about the complicated approaches that accompany the transition from authoritarian to democratic constructions. Written through authors from varied cultural and disciplinary backgrounds, the essays chart the terrain and provide well-documented case reviews to increase wisdom at the courting among social and political reminiscence and the transition strategy.
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6. Naomi Mandel (2006), Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust, and Slavery in America (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press), p. 116. 7. Michael G. Levine (2002), ‘Necessary Stains: Spiegelman’s Maus and the Bleeding of History’, American Imago, 59, 317–41, here 338. 8. See Mikhail M. ), The Dialogic Imagination, translated by Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press), pp. 84–258. Gabriele Schwab 33 9. Leon Anisfeld and Arnold D. Richards (2000), ‘The Replacement Child: Variations on a Theme in History and Psychoanalysis’, Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 55, 301–18, here 303.
The two other contributions in this part are from political scientists. Susanne Buckley-Zistel deals with the case of post-genocide Rwanda, exploring how both remembering and forgetting have been prioritized here. While remembering is recognized as an important framing condition for coming to terms with the past on behalf of the new state, forgetting is often chosen on the local level to facilitate peaceful coexistence within the community. Introducing the important term ‘chosen amnesia’, Buckley-Zistel examines how this practice pacifies the immediate post-war situation, while acting as an impediment to psychic change and real social transition and preserving the dangerous emotional complex in the form of a ‘time bomb’.
I didn’t think about him much when I was growing up . . ’ ‘Uh-huh. ’ ‘That’s the point. They didn’t need photos of me in their room. I was alive! . The photo never threw tantrums or got into any kind of trouble . . It was an ideal kid, and I was a pain in the ass. I couldn’t compete. They didn’t talk about Richieu, but that photo was a kind of reproach. He’d have become a doctor, and married a wealthy Jewish 17 18 Transgenerational Transmission girl . . the creep. But at least we could’ve made him deal with Vladek.