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Kaliningrad and Cultural Memory
Cold War and Post-Soviet Representations of a Resettled City
Häftad, 2019
868 kr
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In 1945, the Soviet Union annexed the East Prussian city of Königsberg, later renaming it Kaliningrad. Left in ruins by the war, the home of Immanuel Kant became a Russian city, a source of historical and cultural fascination for settlers, former inhabitants, visitors and observers alike. New …
Writing the Child
Fictions of Memory in German Postwar Literature
Häftad, 2022
755 kr
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The child is never just a child. While the image, voice and gaze of the victimized child is a universal symbol of a failing world, it can be an equally potent aesthetic screen for historical obfuscation. Analysing selected works by Dieter Forte, Günter Grass, Gisela Elsner, Hans-Ulrich Treichel and …
Memory and Postcolonial Studies
Synergies and New Directions
Häftad, 2019
705 kr
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In the postcolonial reassessment of history, the themes of colonialism, decolonisation and individual and collective memory have always been intertwined, but it is only recently that the transcultural turn in memory studies has enabled proper dialogue between memory studies and postcolonial …
Artistic Expressions and the Great War, A Hundred Years On
Häftad, 2021
782 kr
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The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. The war took millions of lives, led to the fall of four empires, established new nations, and negatively affected others. During and after the war, individuals and communities struggled to find expression for their …
Heritage of a Transit Camp
Fossoli: History, Memory, Aesthetics
Av Matteo Cassani Simonetti, Roberta Mira m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
750 kr
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The former camp of Fossoli in northern Italy was established in 1942 by the Royal Italian Army as a camp for prisoners of war, later becoming a Nazi-Fascist concentration and transit camp for political opponents, Jews and forced labourers. After the war it became a Catholic community for orphans …
Picturing Ghosts
Memories, Traces and Prophesies of Rebellion in Postdictatorship Chilean Film
Av Struan Gray
Häftad, 2022
751 kr
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How can the afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance enliven contemporary imaginaries of social justice? Where can the legacies of authoritarianism be spatially located and challenged? And what roles can film play in reckoning with these spectral inheritances?Picturing Ghosts …
Camps of Transit, Sites of Memory
European Perspectives in the Twentieth Century
Av Matteo Cassani Simonetti, Roberta Mira
Häftad, 2023
656 kr
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«Multidisciplinary and comparative, Camps of Transit, Sites of Memory brings new materials and approaches to the study of Fascist, wartime and postwar concentration and transit camps in Italy, as well as their legacies. An essential volume for the continuing study of this complex …
Edgar Wind
Art and Embodiment
Av Jaynie Anderson, Bernardino Branca m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
742 kr
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«A completely fascinating volume. Essential reading on the development of art and cultural history in the twentieth century. It confirms Edgar Wind as one of the master thinkers in both domains. Difficult, mercurial and always original, his work has never ceased to be stimulating, as this book so …
Juan Muñoz
The Politics of Silence
Av Mark Stuart-Smith, Katia Pizzi
Häftad, 2024
804 kr
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«Through marvelously attentive case studies of a handful of works, some canonical, others obscure, Mark Stuart-Smith provides the most thorough exploration so far of Juan Muñoz’s mesmerizing and haunted world. He inhabits the works, analyzing their mechanisms, materialities and drama, while at the …
Past is not Past
Confronting the Twentieth Century in the Hungarian-Austrian Borderlands
Av Frank N. Schubert, Katia Pizzi
Häftad, 2024
719 kr
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«A unique, invaluable, and potent reminder that the past shapes the future and yet all the while is being rewritten and reinterpreted.»(Dr. Dennis Deletant, OBE, Emeritus Professor, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London)«Points out on almost every page that the past …
Cold War Trieste
Nationalism, Diplomacy, and "Italianità" in a Contested Borderland
Av Fabio Capano
Häftad, 2026
676 kr
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“In this insightful, meticulously researched study, Capano reveals the complexities of Italian nationalist ideology and advocacy in the contested Yugoslav-Italian border regions, making sense of the cacophony of voices that shaped local relations and Italian foreign policy from the end of World War …
Maiden Machines
On Human Creatures and Artificial Creators
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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Palomilla is a machine capable of responding to light impulses and reacting to its environment, invented by the father of cybernetics Norbert Wiener in the 1940s. Rachel is the unsuspecting replicant in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner. Sophia is the most advanced robot being tested since 2015 by …
Appropriated Memory
The Creation of a German Post-Memorial Literature
Av Reinhard Zachau, Katia Pizzi
Häftad, 2025
706 kr
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This book offers a survey of post-World War II German-language post-memorial writing. An analysis of the books by Heinrich Böll, Günter Grass, and Wolfgang Koeppen exposes the difficult path of German writing about the Holocaust. Koeppen’s unauthorized appropriation of Jakob Littner’s …
Nation, Memory and Great War Commemoration
Mobilizing the Past in Europe, Australia and New Zealand
Av Shanti Sumartojo, Ben Wellings
Häftad, 2014
881 kr
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The Great War continues to play a prominent role in contemporary consciousness. With commemorative activities involving seventy-two countries, its centenary is a titanic undertaking: not only ‘the centenary to end all centenaries’ but the first truly global period of remembrance. In this innovative …
Migrant Memories
Cultural History, Cinema and the Italian Post-War Diaspora in Britain
Häftad, 2013
923 kr
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Migrant Memories provides an innovative perspective on the power of cultural memory and the influence of cinema on the Italian diaspora in Britain. Based on extensive interviews with Southern Italian migrants and their children, this study offers a fresh understanding of the migrants’ journey from …
Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity
Commemoration and Contestation in Post-Dictatorship Argentina and Uruguay
Av Cara Levey
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
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Fragile Memory, Shifting Impunity is an interdisciplinary study of commemorative sites related to human rights violations committed primarily during dictatorial rule in Argentina (1976–1983) and Uruguay (1973–1985). Taking as a departure point the ‘politics of memory’ – a term that acknowledges …
Cold War Cities
History, Culture and Memory
Av Katia Pizzi, Marjatta Hietala
Häftad, 2016
1572 kr
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The Cold War left indelible traces on the city, where polarities on the global stage crystallized and intersected with political and social dynamics predating and bypassing the Blocs. This collection taps into the rich fabric of memories, histories and cultural interactions of thirteen cities …
Commemorating Conflict
Models of Remembrance in Postwar Croatia
Häftad, 2016
789 kr
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One of Europe’s youngest nations and the most recent member-state of the European Union, Croatia, forged its national identity in the so-called Homeland War, the bloody civil conflict that raged between 1991 and 1995 and ultimately led to independence from Yugoslavia. Since then, a culture of war …
Networked Remembrance
Excavating Buried Memories in the Railways beneath London and Berlin
Av Samuel Merrill III, Katia Pizzi
Häftad, 2017
856 kr
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Networked Remembrance is the first book to explore questions of urban memory within what are some of the most commonly experienced subterranean margins of the contemporary city: underground railways. Using London’s and Berlin’s underground railways as comparative case studies, this book reveals how …
Memories of the Future
On Countervision
Av Stephen Wilson, Deborah Jaffé
Häftad, 2017
880 kr
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What is a memory of the future? Is it a myth, a fiction of a severed arm, a post-human debate or a broken time machine? In an increasingly insecure future-world there is an urgency to consider and debate these questions. Memories of the Future: On Countervision addresses these concerns by …
Landscapes of Memory
Trauma, Space, History
Av Patrizia Violi, Katia Pizzi
Häftad, 2017
772 kr
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Since Auschwitz, and more and more frequently today, places that were theatres of mass suffering and other atrocities are becoming common features of our cultural landscape. What should we do with these places? Keep them as they were, to remind us of what actually took place there, as ideal museums …
Memory and the Trevi Fountain
Flows of Political Power in Media Performance
Häftad, 2019
772 kr
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Why do you throw a coin into the Trevi Fountain and make a wish?This book links cultural memory with the materiality of the Trevi Fountain as historical monument and uses this perspective to examine its imagery in art, literature, film and music, concluding with the e-Trevi on the internet. How …
Borderlands of Memory
Adriatic and Central European Perspectives
Häftad, 2018
692 kr
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The complex intertwining of history, memory, space, place and identity in borderlands is the topic of this edited collection. Using a transnational analysis of multi-layered cases from the northern Adriatic and Central Europe, the essays address fundamental questions in the history of the twentieth …
Hitler and Mussolini in Churches
The Church Painter’s Subversion of Fascism: The Ideological Marking of Space along the Slovene–Italian Border
Häftad, 2020
764 kr
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When Europe fell prey to totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century, the Slovene artist Tone Kralj responded to the cruellest oppression by systematically depicting his own and his community’s resistance against Fascism and Nazism in public spaces, under the very nose of the regime. As …
