ISBN:
9789048512027
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (369 p.))
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
EBL-Schweitzer
Parallel Title:
Print version Performing the Past : Memory, History, and Identity in Modern Europe
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Performing the past
DDC:
900
Keywords:
Collective memory ; Europe
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Europe ; History
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History ; Philosophy
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Collective memory -- Europe
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Europe -- History
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History -- Philosophy
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Europa
;
Geschichtsbewusstsein
;
Kollektives Gedächtnis
;
Geschichte 1789-2000
Abstract:
Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; CH1. The performance of the past: memory, history, identity; CH2. Re-framing memory. Between individual and collective forms of constructing the past; CH3. Repetitive structures in language and history; CH4. Unstuck in time. Or: the sudden presence of the past; CH5. Co-memorations. Performing the past; CH6. 'Indelible memories': the tattooed body as theatre of memory; CH7. Incongruous images. 'Before, during, and after' the Holocaust; CH8. Radio Clandestina: from oral history to the theatre; CH9. Music and memory in Mozart's Zauberflöte
Abstract:
CH10. The many afterlives of IvanhoeCH11. Novels and their readers, memories and their social frameworks; CH12. Indigestible images. On the ethics and limits of representation; CH13. 'In these days of convulsive political change'. Discourse and display in the revolutionary museum, 1793-1815; CH14. Restitution as a means of remembrance. Evocations of the recent past in the Czech Republic and Poland after 1989; CH15. European identity and the politics of remembrance; About the Authors; List of Illustrations
Abstract:
Performing the Past is an investigation of the multiple social and culture practices through which Europeans have negotiated the space between their history and their memory over the past 200 years. In museums, in opera houses, in the streets, in the schools, in theatres, in films, on the internet and beyond, narratives about the past circulate today at a dizzying speed. Producing and selling them is big business; if the past is indeed a foreign country, there are tens of thousands of tourist agents, guides, and pundits around to help us on our way, for a fee, to be sure.This collection of essays by renowned scholars from, among others, Yale, Columbia, Amsterdam Oxford, Cambridge, New York University and the European University Institute in Florence, is essential reading for anyone interested in today's memory boom. Drawing on different national and disciplinary traditions, the authors ultimately engage us with the ways in which Europeans continue a venerable tradition of finding out who they are, and where they are going, by performing the past
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