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By Christina Kraenzle, Maria Mayr

This ebook investigates the transnational dimensions of ecu cultural reminiscence and the way it contributes to the development of recent non-, supra, and post-national, but additionally nationwide, reminiscence narratives. the amount considers how those narratives circulation not just inside Europe, but in addition via international interactions with different destinations.
The altering position of Europe in international reminiscence Cultures responds to fresh educational calls to damage with methodological nationalism in reminiscence stories. Taking ecu reminiscence as a case learn, the booklet bargains new empirical and theoretical insights into the transnational dimensions of cultural reminiscence, with out wasting sight of the continuing relevance of the state. The articles severely study the ways that a number of members, organisations, associations, and artistic endeavors are mobilizing future-oriented stories of Europe to build new reminiscence narratives. bearing in mind the heterogeneity and transnational destinations of commemorative teams, the multidirectionality of acts of remembrance, and various commemorative media similar to museums, movie, images, and literature, the amount not just investigates how reminiscence discourses flow inside Europe, but in addition how they're being transferred, translated, or remodeled via international interactions past the eu continent.

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Aleida Assmann and Sebastian Conrad, Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 97–117. 15 Jan Assmann, “Globalization, Universalism, and the Erosion of Cultural Memory,” in Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices and Trajectories, ed. Aleida Assmann and Sebastian Conrad (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), 121–37. 134. 16 Levy and Sznaider, “Memory Unbound,” 89. , (Re)visualizing National History: Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008).

For Poland, see: Beate Kosmala, “Polen: Lange Schatten der Erinnerung – Der Zweite Weltkrieg im kollektiven Gedächtnis,” in Flacke, Mythen der Nationen, 509–40; Piotr Madajczyk, “Experience and Memory: The Second World War in Poland,” in Experience and Memory: The Second World War in Europe, ed. Jörg Echternkamp and Stefan Martens (New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2010), 70–85; Hans-Jürgen Bömelburg, Eugeniusz Cezary Krol, and Michael Thomae, Der Warschauer Aufstand 1944: Ereignis und Wahrnehmung in Polen und Deutschland (Paderborn: Schöningh, 2011).

25 Aleida Assmann, “Europe: A Community of Memory? Twentieth Annual Lecture of the GHI,” in GHI Bulletin, vol. option=com_content&view=article&id=483:twentieth-annuallecture&catid=82:lectures-2006&Itemid=334. 26 In this chapter, this is mostly demonstrated in my analysis of the Military History Museum in Dresden. ” For a dynamic concept of European memories, see Sharon MacDonald, who sees the co-presence of and continuous switching between different temporalities as characteristic of contemporary Europe.

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