New book on memory from Finnish Literature Society, Helsinki:
The Burden of Remembering: Recollections and Representations of the
Twentieth Century. *Studia Historica 77.* Edited by Ene K=F5resaar, Epp Lauk &
Kristin Kuutma. Helsinki: SKS 2009. ISBN978-952-222-102-5
The Burden of Remembering is a book that focuses on two major turning point=
s
in the 20th century history that determine the formation of that century as
a realm of memory =96 the Second World War and the collapse of Communist
regimes and ideology in Europe. These two events are revisited from the
point of view of memory studies to demonstrate the interplay of continuance
and discontinuance of political and cultural regimes of memory of these
ruptures as well as their interconnections in present day discourses and
practices of remembering and forgetting. The memory practices and models of
the Second World War are comparatively interrelated with the practices of
remembering and interpreting the realities of the period after the fall of
Communism in Europe.
Link to the publisher's homepage:
http://kirjat.finlit.fi/index.php?showitem=3D2216
Contents of the book:
Introduction: The Twentieth Century as a Realm of Memory, /Ene K=F5resaar,
Kristin Kuutma & Epp Lauk/
PART I. THE PRODUCTION AND PERSISTENCE OF THE MEMORY OF WORLD WAR II
Blank Spots in History and Deep Memory Revising the Official Narrative of
the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, /James V. Wertsch
The War That Continued After the Peace. Memories of the Return to Peace,
Recollected by Elderly Finns Sixty Years After the End of World War II,
/Pirjo Korkiakangas/
Female Resistance Fighters: National Memory Cultures and the International
Ravensbr=FCck Committee, /Susan Hogervorst/
Articulations of Memory: Issues in the Holocaust Representation, /Ksenia
Polouektova/
PART II. FROM TRAUMA TO JUSTICE: DILEMMAS AND IMPACTS OF POST-COMMUNISM
Transitional Justice: The (Re)Construction of Post-Communist Memory, /Csill=
a
Kiss/
Protean Memories, =91Permanent=92 Visualizations: Monuments and History Mus=
eums
in Post-Communist Eastern Europe, /Nikolai Vukov/
Agency, Cognitive Anchors and Memory: Why Soviet Icons Matter, /Renatas
Berniunas/
Narrating Stalinist Repression: Generation, Nationality and History in
Making Family Memory, /H=E9l=E8ne Levesque/
Cultural Trauma as the Mnemonic Device of Collective Memory, /Aili
Aarelaid-Tart/
Epp Lauk
Professor
Department of Communication
P.O.Box 35 (ToB), FI-40014 University of Jyv=E4skyl=E4
Finland
tel. office: +358 14 260 1545
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(epp.lauk /at/ gmail.com)
