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The Past Is Not Past - Confronting The Twentieth Century In The Hungarian-Austrian Borderlands

by Frank N. Schubert

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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 always reappears; the fate of the victims, their persecutors and descendants is intertwined in one way or another.» (Dr. Péter Krausz, Chairman, Jewish Roots in Gyr Foundation) «Returning to his parents home country, the author uncovers the history of the Austrian-Hungarian border region. He works through layers of truth and falsification, and gives a fascinating insight into the history of this region» (Dr. Erwin A. Schmidl, retired director of the Institute of Strategy and Security Policy of the Austrian National Defense Academy, president of the Austrian Commission of Military History) How do we remember the past? What do we choose to remember? And, just as important, what has been forgotten and erased from public memory, and where do we find the erased and forgotten reminders of the wrenching events that defined the twentieth century? This book examines how Hungarians and Austrians living along their common border remember, distort, forget, and ignore episodes marking recent times, among them World War I, the collapse of the Habsburg empire, postwar instability, the Treaty of Trianon, World War II and the Holocaust, removal of ethnic Germans, the Iron Curtain and 1956 revolution, the end of Soviet rule, and the post-1989 migration crisis. The book examines the shaping of memory, both public and private, of this tumultuous century of upheaval, including war, revolution, systematic theft, and murder, along with changes in political regimes, national borders, and demographics. The author draws on fifteen years of travel in the borderlands from his home in Gyr, the largest city in the region, along with published sources and conversations with residents. Part social history and part memoir, this highly illustrated book contains sixteen maps and sixty illustrations to help readers find the answers.
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Camps Of Transit, Sites Of Memory - European Perspectives In The Twentieth Century

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 Camps and places of transit have great relevance in the contemporary age, from genocide to forced migration, prisoners of war to refugees of catastrophes. This book investigates the relationship between camps and places of transit through history, considering their architectural, memorial and educational significance.
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Writing The Child - Fictions Of Memory In German Postwar Literature

by Susanne Baackmann

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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 Rachel Seiffert, Writing the Child considers the evolution of German cultural memory concerning wartime trauma and victimhood. In these works, the aesthetically conceived child comes into view as a memory icon, animated as much by collective fantasies as shaped by specific historical moments. Whose suffering has gained importance after the end of World War II? Who claims innocence or responsibility at the time and over time as the Nazi legacy reverberates into the future? Who remains implicated in the legacy of perpetration? In dialogue with the voices of German war children, the Kriegskinder, the texts echo but also contest exculpatory victimologies that have shaped German memory frameworks from the 1940s up to the post-1989 present.
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The Heritage Of A Transit Camp - Fossoli: History, Memory, Aesthetics

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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 and a camp for refugees from the former Italian territories of Istria until 1970. A complex system of memory and heritage stems from the legacy of the former camp: its remains, the Museum and Monument to the Political and Racial Deportee by architects BBPR, and the synagogues of Carpi. The Fondazione Fossoli, created in Carpi in 1996, manages this legacy with the purpose of preserving and transmitting the historical memory of the Fossoli camp. Linking together the history of the Holocaust, the resistance to Nazi-Fascism and the political and civic commitment that inspired the birth of the Italian Republic after the dictatorship and the war, Fossoli lies at the very core of Italys contemporary cultural memory. The essays in this volume analyse, from different disciplinary perspectives, the material and immaterial heritage that constitutes a rich and articulated memorial system today. Texts by Lorenzo Bertucelli, Matteo Cassani Simonetti, Pierluigi Castagnetti, Paolo Faccio, Robert S. C. Gordon, Viviana Gravano, Giovanni Leoni, Marzia Luppi, Roberta Mira, Daniele Salerno, Andrea Ugolini and Patrizia Violi.
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Artistic Expressions And The Great War, A Hundred Years On

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 The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. This volume offers a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of modern war, exploring the ways that artists contributed to wartime culture as well as the ways in which wartime culture influenced artistic expressions.
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Memory And The Trevi Fountain - Flows Of Political Power In Media Performance

by Pamela Krist

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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 memory takes different pathways is of current interest in memory studies and the cross-disciplinary approach taken here considers how memory travels between media as well as exploring related issues such as forgetting and media convergence. Yet there is a dark side to the Trevi, previously unexplored, of memory linked to water, which runs counter to its usual blue sky image, and this ambiguity is unravelled. The book also conveys the international, national and localized meanings of the Fountain and describes the changing ideologies that are hidden in the many performances the monument is made to give. The Trevi is symbolic of both commodification and misogyny, symbols that flow with changing and contemporary meanings. Throw your coin with care!
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Memory And Postcolonial Studies - Synergies And New Directions

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 This volume explores the synergies and tensions between memory studies and postcolonial studies across literatures and media from Europe, Africa and the Americas, and intersections with Asia. It makes a unique contribution to this growing international and interdisciplinary field by considering an unprecedented range of languages and sources.
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Landscapes Of Memory - Trauma, Space, History

by Patrizia Violi

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 What should we do with places that were theatres of mass suffering and atrocity? Should we keep them as they were, to remind us of the past, or transform them? This volume addresses these questions by discussing selected key trauma sites, analysed with an innovative semiotic methodology that sheds new light on the notions of trauma and memory.
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Memories Of The Future - On Countervision

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 What is a memory of the future? This book speculates on the connections between memory and futurity in a variety of fields, including counter-histories, womenâ€™s studies, science fiction, art and design, technology, philosophy and politics. Topics include technology and fashion, reinventions of monetary exchange and memories of adolescence.
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Nation, Memory And Great War Commemoration - Mobilizing The Past In Europe, Australia And New Zealand

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 This innovative volume examines First World War commemoration in an international, multidisciplinary and comparative context, combining new studies of Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific to illuminate the fluid and oft-contested relationships amongst nation, history and memory.
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Juan Muñoz - The Politics Of Silence

by Mark Stuart-Smith

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 This is the first in-depth study of Spanish artist Juan MuÃ±ozâ€™s work in terms of the idea of silence. Drawing on a wealth of documents, this book shows how silence and memory defined and shaped his art, ultimately revealing how his art probes and reanimates the uncanny memory of Spainâ€™s traumatic past.
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Edgar Wind - Art And Embodiment

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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 vividly shows. No one who heard his lectures as the first Professor of Art History at Oxford, or his 1960 Reith lectures entitled Art and Anarchy has ever forgotten the richness of their content or the elegance with which he delivered them. His brilliance and his complicated character could not emerge more clearly than in this outstanding series of essays one as compelling as the other. It could hardly be otherwise. This is a team of both younger and more senior scholars headed by Jaynie Anderson (more responsible than any for the revival of Winds reputation), that includes Oswyn Murray (who knew him well), and Elizabeth Sears (who knows the complex cast of characters involved in the history of the great institute founded by Aby Warburg in Hamburg better than anyone else). Here are rich accounts of Winds challenges to Warburgs colleagues and protegés such as Ernst Cassirer, Fritz Saxl, Erwin Panofsky and many others, as well as his fundamental role in the transfer of the Institute to London and the consequences of his unfortunate separation from it.» (David Freedberg, Pierre Matisse Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Columbia University) «This close attention to Edgar Wind is long overdue. The vast range of interests and ideas of the German-trained mainstay of art history in England at last find proper tribute and assessment in this volume. Not only are his own close studies of cultural symbols examined anew, but his dialogues with mentors are also assessed. This collection of scholarly essays provides a much-needed suggestion of Winds own contributions and should spark a vital return to his legacy.» (Larry Silver, Farquhar Professor of Art History, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania) Edgar Wind (19001971) was a cosmopolitan scholar who made important contributions to many disciplines, including philosophy, Renaissance art history and modern art criticism. This book considers a crucial question: to understand the work of an art historian, how important is it to know their life story? In the case of Edgar Wind, biography and scholarly endeavour are intimately connected. His intellectual exchanges with leading art historians, philosophers and artists of his day were essential for his research. Moreover, his wife, Margaret Wind, was determined to establish an Edgar Wind Archive after his death. This book is the first comprehensive study in English of Winds intellectual achievements. Open Access Chapter 4 is available <html> <a href="https://supplementaryresources.blob.core.windows.net/4330868-anderson/9781800799523_CH_101-124_4.pdf"_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a> </html> Open Access Chapter 7 is available <html> <a href="https://supplementaryresources.blob.core.windows.net/4330868-anderson/9781800799523_CH_187-220_7.pdf"_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a> </html>
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Camps Of Transit, Sites Of Memory - European Perspectives In The Twentieth Century

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 Camps and places of transit have great relevance in the contemporary age, from genocide to forced migration, prisoners of war to refugees of catastrophes. This book investigates the relationship between camps and places of transit through history, considering their architectural, memorial and educational significance.
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Writing The Child - Fictions Of Memory In German Postwar Literature

by Susanne Baackmann

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Picturing Ghosts - Memories, Traces And Prophesies Of Rebellion In Postdictatorship Chilean Film

by Struan Gray

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 This book explores how the Chilean Â«transition to democracyÂ» has been narrated in film, focusing on the imaginative afterlives of anticapitalist and antidictatorship resistance. Documentary and fiction films which explore Â«hauntingÂ» in the present past are analysed, contributing to a field of research on post-conflict transitions.
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Picturing Ghosts - Memories, Traces And Prophesies Of Rebellion In Postdictatorship Chilean Film

by Struan Gray

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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 addresses these questions in relation to postdictatorship Chile, a country that has become a nodal point in global geopolitical narratives about the obsolescence of socialism, the birth of neoliberalism and «the end of history». Exploring how the Chilean «transition to democracy» has been narrated in film, the book focuses on stories of haunting and rebellion that unsettle hegemonic temporalities and frameworks of memory. Engaging with the idea of haunting as a trope, a conceptual metaphor and a structure of feeling, it considers different approaches to reckoning with the present past as an emancipatory presence a multiplicity of unfinished projects and unanswered questions that the cultural imaginary of late capitalism hastens to smooth over. Through a cartographic approach to analysis, this study looks beyond established landscapes of memorialisation in Chile, encountering rebellious subjects and stories in houses and haciendas, poblaciones, the presidential palace, the Atacama Desert, shopping malls, public schools and university campuses. In doing so, it contributes to an emerging field of research that problematises the dominant spatial and temporal imaginaries of «post-conflict» transitions, striving to construct more inclusive and transformative conceptions of truth, justice and emancipation.
Artistic Expressions And The Great War, A Hundred Years On

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 The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. This volume offers a significant interdisciplinary contribution to the study of modern war, exploring the ways that artists contributed to wartime culture as well as the ways in which wartime culture influenced artistic expressions.
Memory And Postcolonial Studies - Synergies And New Directions

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 This volume explores the synergies and tensions between memory studies and postcolonial studies across literatures and media from Europe, Africa and the Americas, and intersections with Asia. It makes a unique contribution to this growing international and interdisciplinary field by considering an unprecedented range of languages and sources.
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Borderlands Of Memory - Adriatic And Central European Perspectives

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 West vs East, antifascism vs fascism, capitalism vs communism: these are the symbolic boundaries that have divided Europe. Focusing on the Adriatic and central European regions, this collection of essays explores ruptures and continuities in memory cultures, commemorative practices and the varying politics of the past in European borderlands.
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Memory And The Trevi Fountain - Flows Of Political Power In Media Performance

by Pamela Krist

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 This book explores the Trevi Fountain through the prism of cultural memory to reveal the processes that make it so iconic and performative. Using a cross-disciplinary approach that includes imagery in art, literature, film, music and the e-Trevi of the internet, this volume looks at how memory travels between media.
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Geopolitics Of Memory And Transnational Citizenship - Thinking Local Development In A Global South

by Clara Rachel Eybalin Casseus

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Kaliningrad And Cultural Memory - Cold War And Post-Soviet Representations Of A Resettled City

by Edward Saunders

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Hitler And Mussolini In Churches - The Church Painters Subversion Of Fascism: The Ideological Marking Of Space Along The Sloveneitalian Border

by Egon Pelikan

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 When Europe fell prey to totalitarian regimes in the twentieth century, the Slovene artist Tone Kralj expressed resistance through his paintings in Catholic churches on the Sloveneâ€"Italian ethnic border, which show Hitler and Mussolini as villainous Biblical characters. This highly illustrated volume traces the anti-fascist messages in his work.
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Bernard Shaw In Brazil - The Reception Of Theatrical Productions, 1927â€“2013

by Rosalie Rahal Haddad

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 This book analyses the reception of Brazilian productions of Pygmalion, My Fair Lady, Arms and the Man, Candida and Mrs Warrenâ€™s Profession, setting each one in its political, economic and cultural context. As well as supplying fascinating detail on the productions, it also provides an insight into the remarkable complexity of Brazil itself.
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