Author: Klaus Neumann
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472087105
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A long look at how contemporary Germany is remembering the Holocaust
Shifting Memories
Author: Klaus Neumann
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472087105
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A long look at how contemporary Germany is remembering the Holocaust
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472087105
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A long look at how contemporary Germany is remembering the Holocaust
The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison
Author: Justine Tally
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827855
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and literary criticism, and her career as an editor and teacher. Innovative contributions from internationally recognized critics and academics discuss Morrison's themes, narrative techniques, language and political philosophy, and explain the importance of her work to American studies and world literature. This comprehensive and accessible approach, together with a chronology and guide to further reading, makes this an essential book for students and scholars of African American literature.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139827855
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is one of the most widely studied of contemporary American authors. Her novels, particularly Beloved, have had a dramatic impact on the American canon and attracted considerable critical commentary. This 2007 Companion introduces and examines her oeuvre as a whole, the first evaluation to include not only her famous novels, but also her other literary works (short story, drama, musical, and opera), her social and literary criticism, and her career as an editor and teacher. Innovative contributions from internationally recognized critics and academics discuss Morrison's themes, narrative techniques, language and political philosophy, and explain the importance of her work to American studies and world literature. This comprehensive and accessible approach, together with a chronology and guide to further reading, makes this an essential book for students and scholars of African American literature.
Staying at Home
Author: Rita Sanders
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785331930
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan’s ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date. Disappointing experiences of the migrants, along with other aspects of life in Germany, have been transmitted through transnational networks to ethnic Germans still living in Kazakhstan. Consequently, Germans in Kazakhstan today feel more alienated than ever from their ‘historic homeland’. This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies, which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1785331930
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Despite economic growth in Kazakhstan, more than 80 per cent of Kazakhstan’s ethnic Germans have emigrated to Germany to date. Disappointing experiences of the migrants, along with other aspects of life in Germany, have been transmitted through transnational networks to ethnic Germans still living in Kazakhstan. Consequently, Germans in Kazakhstan today feel more alienated than ever from their ‘historic homeland’. This book explores the interplay of those memories, social networks and state policies, which play a role in the ‘construction’ of a Kazakhstani German identity.
All My/Our Pain and Suffering
Author: Michael Milo Faff
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982223634
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This book is a combination of many small booklets written over the last fifteen years. And a few central themes weave their way through the book. Memories is one of those themes. What are they? We all have them, but what are they and how do we make them? And how real are they? Reality is another theme that tugs at my imagination. Where is it? I will be answering the following questions: Why do you have the personality you do? Can you change your personality? How was your belief system formed? Can you change your beliefs? How did you manifest the world you have? And can you manifest a different world? What makes you who you are? And if you don’t like it, can you change who you are? Don’t be shy, come along. Maybe you will find a new way of experiencing life? Maybe you will find a new way of being in the world? Or maybe you will find a new world?
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1982223634
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
This book is a combination of many small booklets written over the last fifteen years. And a few central themes weave their way through the book. Memories is one of those themes. What are they? We all have them, but what are they and how do we make them? And how real are they? Reality is another theme that tugs at my imagination. Where is it? I will be answering the following questions: Why do you have the personality you do? Can you change your personality? How was your belief system formed? Can you change your beliefs? How did you manifest the world you have? And can you manifest a different world? What makes you who you are? And if you don’t like it, can you change who you are? Don’t be shy, come along. Maybe you will find a new way of experiencing life? Maybe you will find a new way of being in the world? Or maybe you will find a new world?
Memory and Movies
Author: John Seamon
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262029715
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
How popular films from Memento to Slumdog Millionaire can help us understand how memory works. In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, the childhood memories of a young game show contestant trigger his correct answers. In Memento, the amnesiac hero uses tattoos as memory aids. In Away from Her, an older woman suffering from dementia no longer remembers who her husband is. These are compelling films that tell affecting stories about the human condition. But what can these movies teach us about memory? In this book, John Seamon shows how examining the treatment of memory in popular movies can shed new light on how human memory works. After explaining that memory is actually a diverse collection of independent systems, Seamon uses examples from movies to offer an accessible, nontechnical description of what science knows about memory function and dysfunction. In a series of lively encounters with numerous popular films, he draws on Life of Pi and Avatar, for example, to explain working memory, used for short-term retention. He describes the process of long-term memory with examples from such films as Cast Away and Groundhog Day; The Return of Martin Guerre, among other movies, informs his account of how we recognize people; the effect of emotion on autobiographical memory is illustrated by The Kite Runner, Titanic, and other films; movies including Born on the Fourth of July and Rachel Getting Married illustrate the complex pain of traumatic memories. Seamon shows us that movies rarely get amnesia right, often using strategically timed blows to the protagonist's head as a way to turn memory off and then on again (as in Desperately Seeking Susan). Finally, he uses movies including On Golden Pond and Amour to describe the memory loss that often accompanies aging, while highlighting effective ways to maintain memory function.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262029715
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
How popular films from Memento to Slumdog Millionaire can help us understand how memory works. In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, the childhood memories of a young game show contestant trigger his correct answers. In Memento, the amnesiac hero uses tattoos as memory aids. In Away from Her, an older woman suffering from dementia no longer remembers who her husband is. These are compelling films that tell affecting stories about the human condition. But what can these movies teach us about memory? In this book, John Seamon shows how examining the treatment of memory in popular movies can shed new light on how human memory works. After explaining that memory is actually a diverse collection of independent systems, Seamon uses examples from movies to offer an accessible, nontechnical description of what science knows about memory function and dysfunction. In a series of lively encounters with numerous popular films, he draws on Life of Pi and Avatar, for example, to explain working memory, used for short-term retention. He describes the process of long-term memory with examples from such films as Cast Away and Groundhog Day; The Return of Martin Guerre, among other movies, informs his account of how we recognize people; the effect of emotion on autobiographical memory is illustrated by The Kite Runner, Titanic, and other films; movies including Born on the Fourth of July and Rachel Getting Married illustrate the complex pain of traumatic memories. Seamon shows us that movies rarely get amnesia right, often using strategically timed blows to the protagonist's head as a way to turn memory off and then on again (as in Desperately Seeking Susan). Finally, he uses movies including On Golden Pond and Amour to describe the memory loss that often accompanies aging, while highlighting effective ways to maintain memory function.
A Memory of Lies
Author: Johnnie Gallop
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1838599193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Negotiating their way through Stalinist terrors, Nazi slavery and British colonial brutality, Pasha Zayky and his wife, Tanya, tell first-hand how a loving family fight for survival during the hell of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1838599193
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Negotiating their way through Stalinist terrors, Nazi slavery and British colonial brutality, Pasha Zayky and his wife, Tanya, tell first-hand how a loving family fight for survival during the hell of the twentieth century.
In Pursuit of German Memory
Author: Wulf Kansteiner
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821416391
Category : Collective memory
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Wulf Kansteiner shows that the interpretations of Germany's past proposed by historians, politicians, and television makers reflect political and generational divisions and an extraordinary concern for Germany's perception abroad.
Publisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821416391
Category : Collective memory
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Wulf Kansteiner shows that the interpretations of Germany's past proposed by historians, politicians, and television makers reflect political and generational divisions and an extraordinary concern for Germany's perception abroad.
Memory and Power in Post-War Europe
Author: Jan-Werner Müller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
How has memory - collective and individual - influenced European politics after the Second World War and after 1989 in particular? How has the past been used in domestic struggles for power, and how have 'historical lessons' been applied in foreign policy? While there is now a burgeoning field of social and cultural memory studies, mostly focused on commemorations and monuments, this volume is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly. It investigates how memory is officially recast, personally reworked and often violently re-instilled after wars, and, above all, the ways memory shapes present power constellations. The chapters combine theoretical innovation in their approach to the study of memory with deeply historical, empirically based case studies of major European countries. The volume concludes with reflections on the ethics of memory, and the politics of truth, justice and forgetting after 1945 and 1989.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521000703
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
How has memory - collective and individual - influenced European politics after the Second World War and after 1989 in particular? How has the past been used in domestic struggles for power, and how have 'historical lessons' been applied in foreign policy? While there is now a burgeoning field of social and cultural memory studies, mostly focused on commemorations and monuments, this volume is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly. It investigates how memory is officially recast, personally reworked and often violently re-instilled after wars, and, above all, the ways memory shapes present power constellations. The chapters combine theoretical innovation in their approach to the study of memory with deeply historical, empirically based case studies of major European countries. The volume concludes with reflections on the ethics of memory, and the politics of truth, justice and forgetting after 1945 and 1989.
A Cultural History of Sound, Memory, and the Senses
Author: Joy Damousi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131544531X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Sound studies has emerged as a major academic field in recent times. However, much of this material remains ahistorical or focused on technological advances of sound. This book departs from previous studies by drawing out connections between sound, memory and the senses, and how they emerge within a variety of historical contexts.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131544531X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Sound studies has emerged as a major academic field in recent times. However, much of this material remains ahistorical or focused on technological advances of sound. This book departs from previous studies by drawing out connections between sound, memory and the senses, and how they emerge within a variety of historical contexts.
Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany
Author: Christopher A. Molnar
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253037743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This historical study “persuasively links the reception of Yugoslav migrants to West Germany’s shifting relationship to the Nazi past . . . essential reading” (Tara Zahra, author of The Great Departure). During Europe’s 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing new, however. Immigrants from the Balkans have streamed into West Germany in massive numbers since the end of the Second World War. In fact, Yugoslavs became the country’s second largest immigrant group. Yet their impact has received little critical attention until now. Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany tells the story of how Germans received the many thousands of Yugoslavs who migrated to Germany as political emigres, labor migrants, asylum seekers, and war refugees from 1945 to the mid-1990s. With a particular focus on German policies and attitudes toward immigrants, Christopher Molnar argues that considerations of race played only a marginal role in German attitudes and policies towards Yugoslavs. Rather, the history of Yugoslavs in postwar Germany was most profoundly shaped by the memory of World War II and the shifting Cold War context. Molnar shows how immigration was a central aspect of how Germany negotiated the meaning and legacy of the war.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253037743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This historical study “persuasively links the reception of Yugoslav migrants to West Germany’s shifting relationship to the Nazi past . . . essential reading” (Tara Zahra, author of The Great Departure). During Europe’s 2015 refugee crisis, more than a hundred thousand asylum seekers from the western Balkans sought refuge in Germany. This was nothing new, however. Immigrants from the Balkans have streamed into West Germany in massive numbers since the end of the Second World War. In fact, Yugoslavs became the country’s second largest immigrant group. Yet their impact has received little critical attention until now. Memory, Politics, and Yugoslav Migrations to Postwar Germany tells the story of how Germans received the many thousands of Yugoslavs who migrated to Germany as political emigres, labor migrants, asylum seekers, and war refugees from 1945 to the mid-1990s. With a particular focus on German policies and attitudes toward immigrants, Christopher Molnar argues that considerations of race played only a marginal role in German attitudes and policies towards Yugoslavs. Rather, the history of Yugoslavs in postwar Germany was most profoundly shaped by the memory of World War II and the shifting Cold War context. Molnar shows how immigration was a central aspect of how Germany negotiated the meaning and legacy of the war.