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Transnational Memory
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Transnational Memory

by Chiara De Cesari, Ann Rigney
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
13h 8m
English
De Gruyter
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Gal Kirn

Transnationalism in Reverse: From Yugoslav to Post-Yugoslav Memorial Sites

Articulating the past historically does not mean recognizing it ‘the way it really was.’ It means appropriating a memory as it flashes up in a moment of danger. Historical materialism wishes to hold fast that image of the past which unexpectedly appears to the historical subject in a moment of danger. (Benjamin [1940] 2003, 391)

The return of memory

In 1989, on the verge of the end of history, when the end of socialism was being celebrated as the triumph of liberal democracy, all big narratives were buried in society or dismissed as ‘totalitarian’ or ‘essentialist.’184 Within the academy there was also a re-orientation, away from the grand narrative of history ...

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