German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings (häftad)

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Format: Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Public History in Historical Perspective
Antal sidor: 309
Utgivningsdatum: 2025-06-06
Förlag: University of Massachusetts Press
Dimensioner: 229 x 157 x 23 mm
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ISBN: 9781625348821

German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings

Name: German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings
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Author: Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich
ISBN: 9781625348821

A Cultural History in Bronze, Wood, and Stone

av Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich

Häftad, Engelska, 2025-06-06

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German Memorials, Motifs, and Meanings offers a unique cultural history of German memorialization. The book focuses not on a single, isolated era, but rather on enduring memorial motifs-enchanted stones, magical trees, raised fists, stone circles, and similar evocative symbols derived from myth, folklore, Christianity, national iconography, and post-Holocaust imagery. It thus takes a long-duration perspective, sweeping across the centuries to explore abiding themes such as death, rebirth, and redemption; violence and reconciliation; and sacrifice, identity, and community. Along with a consideration of the historical and social circumstances of each memorial and its motifs, author Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich answers the questions of why and how these cultural markers survive the passage of time and how they endure amidst cultural, social, and political upheavals that include the rise and fall of empires, catastrophes of war and occupation, and genesis of new national identities. She uniquely focuses on lesser-known or unknown memorials found either in smaller German cities or tucked away in villages and hamlets. These memorials tell colorful, often ambiguous and problematic stories in contrast to the vaunted monuments of Germany's post-WWII era, such as Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Through vivid descriptions and deep analysis of the narratives and aesthetics of key monuments and motifs, Hansen-Glucklich details the remarkable story of German memorial culture from medieval times to the present day.

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Jennifer Hansen-Glucklich is associate professor of German at University of Mary Washington. She is author of Holocaust Memory Reframed: Museums and the Challenges of Representation. Her peer-reviewed articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in edited collections and journals such as Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.