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Author Da Silva, Helena Goncalves

Title Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (344 pages)
Contents LIST OF IMAGES; INTRODUCTION; SECTION ONE; FROM COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE TO A COMMON FUTURE; THE FAMILIAL AND GENERATIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY; THE OBSCURE REALM OF MEMORY IN COLD WAR WEST GERMANY; HEIDEGGER'S RECEPTION IN FRANCE; TRAUMA AND DISPLACEMENT AS A PLACE OF IDENTITY IN SAŠA STANIŠIC'S NOVEL HOW THE SOLDIER REPAIRS THE GRAMOPHONE; EAST MEETS WEST; FORCE DYNAMICS; RESCUING THE RAZOR'S EDGE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BIG CIRCUS; SECTION TWO; THE SPLIT MEMORY OF FRANCOISM; GONZALO TORRENTE BALLESTER; NATIONALISM AND TOURISM
THE PIDE/DGS POLITICAL POLICE IN THE PORTUGUESE ESTADO NOVOMEMORY OF WAR IN FRAGMENTS AND DISTORTION; SECTION III; THE LEGACY OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE; CULTURAL WARFARE REDUX; VANISHING EMPIRES; THE (IM)POSSIBLE MEMORY; BETWEEN FRAGMENT AND POLYPHONY; CONFLICTING MEMORIES; THE "COLONIAL FORM" IN THE POSTCOLONIAL PORTUGUESE METROPOLIS; PUTTING VIOLENCE BACK IN THE PICTURE; THE TREE OF LIFE; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Summary Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe discusses processes of memory construction associated Other the realities of war and genocide, totalitarianism, colonialism as well as trans-border dialogues in the overcoming of conflict memories. It is based on the premise that there are no available clear-cut or definite positions to approach the problematic issues of conflict, memory and history. Consequently, it examines and articulates across several different media discourses, probl ..
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Subject War and society -- Europe
Memory -- Sociological aspects.
Literary studies: post-colonial literature.
European history.
Cultural studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Memory -- Sociological aspects
War and society
Europe
Form Electronic book
Author Martins, Adriana
Guarda, Filomena Viana
Sardica, Jose Miguel
ISBN 9781443820059
1443820059