Memory and Political Change (Paperback)

Notes on the Contributors Acknowledgements Foreword: Remembrance as a Human Right; J.Winter Introduction; A.Assmann & L.Shortt PART I: TRANSGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss; G.Schwab The Emotional Legacy of the Nazi Past in Post-War Germany; G.Brockhaus PART II: INSTRUMENTS OF CHANGE To Remember or to Forget: Which Way out of a Shared History of Violence? A.Assmann Between Pragmatism, Coercion and Fear: Chosen Amnesia after the Rwandan Genocide; S.Buckley-Zistel From Domestic to International Instruments for Dealing with a Violent Past: Causes, Concomitants and Consequences for Democratic Transitions; B.Weiffen PART III: RE-IMAGINING THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE Re-Imagining East Germany in the Berlin Republic: Jana Hensel, GDR Memory and the Transitional Generation; L.Shortt South African Transition in the Literary Imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu; M.Reif-Huelser 'That's Not a Story I Could Tell': Commemorating the Other Side of the Colonial Frontier in Australian Literature of Reconciliation; A.Schwarz PART IV: RESISTANCE TO CHANGE Deep Memory and Narrative Templates: Conservative Forces in Collective Memory; J.V.Wertsch The 'Myth' of the Self: The Georgian National Narrative and Quest for 'Georgianness'; N.Batiashvili Memory across Cultures; A.H.Gutchess & M.Siegel Index