Towards a Collaborative Memory

Sara Jones is Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. She has published widely and led on numerous funded projects within memory studies, with a particular focus on post-socialist memory cultures (especially in Germany), first person testimony, transnational and relational memory. She is author of Complicity, Censorship and Criticism: Negotiating Space in the GDR Literary Sphere (2011) and The Media of Testimony: Remembering the East German Stasi in the Berlin Republic (2014).

“Jones draws on an impressive number of unique primary sources, and her review of the literature on memory scholarship is thorough. Readers in several disciplines and at different levels of expertise will find much to like here. No recent work is comparable…Highly Recommended.” • Choice

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsNote on TranslationsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: German Memory Work in Transnational ContextChapter 1. Towards a Collaborative Memory: A Framework and a Method    Chapter 2. Tracing the Shape of Transnational CollaborationChapter 3. Narratives of a Shared Past: Central and Eastern European, Western European and Post Soviet Memory ZonesChapter 4. Narratives of their Present and Future: East Asian and MENA Memory ZonesChapter 5. Connecting Memory: Transzonal BrokersChapter 6. The National in the Transnational: Intrazonal BrokersConclusion: A Collaborative Memory Not Yet AchievedBibliography