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Peripheral Memories
. Ed(S): Boesen, Elisabeth; Lentz, Fabienne; Margue, Michel; Scuto, Denis; Wagener, Renee
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Paperback. Editor(s): Boesen, Elisabeth; Lentz, Fabienne; Margue, Michel; Scuto, Denis; Wagener, Renee. Series: Histoire. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 b/w. BIC Classification: HBTB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 458.
After a period of intense work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field of memory processes, namely those connected with war, persecution and expulsion. In this sense, the memory - or rather the trauma - of the Holocaust is paradigmatic for the entire research field. The Holocaust is furthermore increasingly understood as constitutive of a global memory community which transcends national memories and mediates universal values. The present volume diverges from this perspective by dealing also with everyday ... Read more
After a period of intense work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field of memory processes, namely those connected with war, persecution and expulsion. In this sense, the memory - or rather the trauma - of the Holocaust is paradigmatic for the entire research field. The Holocaust is furthermore increasingly understood as constitutive of a global memory community which transcends national memories and mediates universal values. The present volume diverges from this perspective by dealing also with everyday ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Histoire
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837621167
SKU
V9783837621167
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About . Ed(S): Boesen, Elisabeth; Lentz, Fabienne; Margue, Michel; Scuto, Denis; Wagener, Renee
Elisabeth Boesen (Dr.) is a cultural anthropologist working at the University of Luxembourg. Her research interests include rural spaces and social-cultural change, family memory, migration/spatial mobility (Europe and West Africa). Fabienne Lentz is a historian who is doing her PhD thesis on migration memory in Italian immigrant families in Luxembourg. Michel Margue (Prof. Dr.) teaches history at the University of ... Read more
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