Mediating Historical Responsibility: Memories of ‘Difficult Pasts’ in European Cultures

Published by De Gruyter 2024

Mediating Historical Responsibility

Memories of ‘Difficult Pasts’ in European Cultures

Edited by: Guido Bartolini and Joseph Ford

Volume 40 in the series Media and Cultural Memory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111013299

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Mediating Historical Responsibility brings together leading scholars and new voices in the interdisciplinary fields of memory studies, history, and cultural studies to explore the ways culture, and cultural representations, have been at the forefront of bringing the memory of past injustices to the attention of audiences for many years. Engaging with the darkest pages of twentieth-century European history, dealing with the legacy of colonialism, war crimes, genocides, dictatorships, and racism, the authors of this collection of critical essays address Europe’s ‘difficult pasts’ through the study of cultural products, examining historical narratives, literary texts, films, documentaries, theatre, poetry, graphic novels, visual artworks, material heritage, and the cultural and political reception of official government reports. Adopting an intermedial approach to the study of European history, the book probes the relationship between memory and responsibility, investigating what it means to take responsibility for the past and showing how cultural products are fundamentally entangled in this process.

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Guido Bartolini, Ghent University, Belgium; Joseph Ford, IMLR, London, UK.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction
Historical Responsibility and the Mediation of Difficult Pasts Guido Bartolini and Joseph Ford Open Access Download PDF	1
Responsibility and the Mediation of History
Memory as Interpretation: A Hermeneutics of Agency, Historical Responsibility, and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung [Visitation] Hanna Meretoja Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Beyond Neutrality: Historianship and Moral Judgement Donald Bloxham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Impure Memory and the Figurine: Rithy Panh’s L’Image manquante [The Missing Picture] Max Silverman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Responsibility, Complicity, and the Poetics of Discomfort: Commemorating Dictatorships in Contemporary Central and Eastern European Documentary Fiction Juliane Prade-Weiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
Legacies of Colonialism
End of Empire (Channel 4, 1985) and the Public Memory of Decolonisation in Britain Emiliano Perra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Why Care about the Violence of the Past? Addressing Collective Responsibility in British Debates about Colonial Violence during the Mau Mau Insurgency Itay Lotem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Haunting Debris: The Transnational Legacies of Italy’s Colonial Past in Addis Ababa Charles Burdett and Gianmarco Mancosu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Genocides
The Holocaust and Decolonisation in Contemporary Ukrainian Commemorative Culture, Literature, and Art Uilleam Blacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Symbolic Responsibility: Holocaust Memory in Romania through Radu Jude’s Archival Documentaries Diana Popa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Between Guiltless Responsibility and Current French Interests: Uncovering Motive in the Media Coverage of the Duclert Report in Le Monde and the Rwandan New Times and Pan African Review Caroline Williamson Sinalo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Memories of Dictatorships and World War II
Memory Unboxed: Reckoning with German Memories of the Second World War in Nora Krug’s Heimat: A German Family Album (2018) Claire Gorrara Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
“Democratic Memory,” Public History, and Responsibility in Spain Alison Ribeiro de Menezes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Communism without Guilt: Autobiographical Family Narratives of Communists in Poland Katarzyna Chmielewska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Fighting Racism and Rethinking Belonging
Remembering Migration, Rethinking Belonging: Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft [Where You Come From] Stijn Vervaet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Archive of Solidarity after Hanau: Remembering Right-Wing Terror, Racism, and Antisemitism in Germany Meryem Choukri and Lara Saadi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Private Memory, Postmemory, and Public Memory in a Battlefield: Mediterranean Border Crossings, Italian Public Discourse on the Invasion, and the Counter-Public Political Project of a Common Postcolonial (Post-)Memory Gaia Giuliani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of cultural and memory studies, history, literary and media studies
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 379
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 13
Keywords: Past injustices; colonialism; genocide; conflict

eBook

Published: July 1, 2024
ISBN: 9783111013299

Hardcover

Published: July 1, 2024
ISBN: 9783111012971