Memory and Political Change

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Memory and Political Change: Introduction

   1. Memory and Political Change: Introduction

      • Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt

      Pages 1-14

3. Transgenerational Transmission

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Replacement Children: The Transgenerational Transmission of Traumatic Loss

      • Gabriele Schwab

      Pages 17-33

   3. The Emotional Legacy of the National Socialist Past in Post-War Germany

      • Gudrun Brockhaus

      Pages 34-49

4. Instruments of Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-51

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   2. To Remember or to Forget: Which Way Out of a Shared History of Violence?

      • Aleida Assmann

      Pages 53-71

   3. Between Pragmatism, Coercion and Fear: Chosen Amnesia after the Rwandan Genocide

      • Susanne Buckley-Zistel

      Pages 72-88

   4. From Domestic to International Instruments for Dealing with a Violent Past: Causes, Concomitants and Consequences for Democratic Transitions

      • Brigitte Weiffen

      Pages 89-111

5. Re-Imagining the Past for the Future

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Re-Imagining East Germany in the Berlin Republic: Jana Hensel, GDR Memory and the Transitional Generation

      • Linda Shortt

      Pages 115-129

   3. South African Transition in the Literary Imagination: Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee, Malika Lueen Ndlovu

      • Monika Reif-Huelser

      Pages 130-149

   4. ‘That’s Not A Story I Could Tell.’ Commemorating the Other Side of the Colonial Frontier in Australian Literature of Reconciliation

      • Anja Schwarz

      Pages 150-169

6. Resistance to Change

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171

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   2. Deep Memory and Narrative Templates: Conservative Forces in Collective Memory

      • James V. Wertsch

      Pages 173-185

   3. The ‘Myth’ of the Self: The Georgian National Narrative and Quest for ‘Georgianness’

      • Nutsa Batiashvili

      Pages 186-200

   4. Memory Specificity Across Cultures

      • Angela H. Gutchess, Maya Siegel

      Pages 201-215

7. Back Matter

   Pages 216-223

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Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions.

• children
• emotion
• Generation
• Germany
• memory
• Nation
• Transition
• violence

• University of Konstanz, Germany

  Aleida Assmann

• Bangor University, Wales, UK

  Linda Shortt

NUTSA BATIASHVILI Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Anthropology at Washington University, St Louis, USA GUDRUN BROCKHAUS Social-Psychologist in Munich, Germany SUSANNE BUCKLEY-ZISTEL Professor for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany ANGELA GUTCHESS Assistant Professor of Psychology at Brandeis University, USA MONIKA REIF-HUELSER Held Guest Professorships in Guelph, Canada, Toronto, Canada, and Shanghai, China, and has acted as Associate Professor in Iasi, Romania GABRIELE SCHWAB Chancellor's Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Irvine, USA ANJA SCHWARZ Junior Professor for British Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany MAYA SIEGEL Ph.D. Graduate from the Psychology Department at Brandeis University, USA BRIGITTE WEIFFEN Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Department of Politics and Management, University of Konstanz, Germany JAMES V. WERTSCH Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts and Sciences and Professor at Washington University, St. Louis, USA JAY WINTER Charles J. Stille Professor of History at Yale University, USA.

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