Memory and Postwar Memorials: Confronting the Violence of the Past

Front Matter....Pages I-XVIII
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Nuremberg Trials as Cold War Competition: The Politics of the Historical Record and the International Stage....Pages 15-30
The Cube on Red Square: A Memorial for the Victims of Twentieth-century Russia....Pages 31-49
Reactive Memory: The Holocaust and the Flight and Expulsion of Germans....Pages 51-69
Beyond Auschwitz? Europe’s Terrorscapes in the Age of Postmemory....Pages 71-92
Front Matter....Pages 93-93
Narrative Shock and Polish Memory Remaking in the Twenty-first Century....Pages 95-115
Grievability and the Politics of Visibility: The Photography of Francesc Torres and the Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War....Pages 117-136
Doing Memory in Public: Postapartheid Memorial Space as an Activist Project....Pages 137-154
Mnemonic Objects: Forensic and Rhetorical Practices in Memorial Culture....Pages 155-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Toward a Critical Reparative Practice in Post-1989 German Literature: Christa Wolf’s City of Angels or The Overcoat of Dr. Freud (2010)....Pages 177-196
Paradoxes of Remembrance: Dissecting France’s “Duty to Memory”....Pages 197-211
After-words: Lessons in Memory and Politics....Pages 213-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-252