The Work of Memory

New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture

By: Alon Confino (Editor), Peter Fritzsche (Editor)

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Hardcover | 14 October 2002

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Coming to terms with a troubled past is the mark of the modern condition. But how does memory operate?

This powerful collection of original essays probes this question by focusing on Germany, where historical trauma and political turbulence over the past century have deeply scarred modern memory and identity. Tracing the role of memory in German history between the Reformation and reunification, contributors show how memory has a history and the presence of the past has historical context. With scholarly zeal and keen insight, these essays draw on ghost stories and the postwar fiction of Heinrich Böll, among other memory sites, escorting the reader through the streets of Alt Hildesheim and the grocery aisles of East Germany. By historicizing memory, this volume surpasses the efforts of previous memory scholarship in confronting Germany's National Socialist past.

Standard approaches to memory in modern Germany have explored how the past represents social relations and is commemorated in literature, art, and personal narrative. In taking memory "out of the museum" and "beyond the monument," The Work of Memory investigates the ways memory forms social relations and is integral to the construction of identities, communities, and policies.

Profound and provocative, The Work of Memory contributes to a much-needed anthropology of memory in modern Germany.

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"This is most certainly not yet another book on memory with the air of deja vu many volumes inevitably have, but an innovative and challenging contribution, with an excellent introduction." -- Pieter Lagrou, author of The Legacy of Nazi Occupation: Patriotic Memory and National Recovery in Western Europe, 1945-1965

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Politics & Government Regional & National History European History History Theory & Methods Historiography

Introduction: Noises of the Past	p. 1
Historicity
From Presence to Remembrance: The Transformation of Memory in the German Reformation	p. 25
Memory, History, and the Jewish Question: Universal Citizenship and the Colonization of Jewish Memory	p. 39
How Nostalgia Narrates Modernity	p. 62
Masters of Memory: The Strategic Use of Autobiographical Memory by the German Nobility	p. 86
Everyday Life
Hildesheim in an Age of Pestilence: On the Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Normalcy	p. 107
Awakening from War: History, Trauma, and Testimony in Heinrich Boll	p. 136
Memory and Existence: Implications of the Wende	p. 154
An Economy of Memory: Psychiatrists, Veterans, and Traumatic Narratives in Weimar Germany	p. 173
Public Relations as a Site of Memory: The Case of West German Industry and National Socialism	p. 196
Gender, Public Policy, and Memory: Waiting Wives and War Widows in the Postwar Germanys	p. 214
Epilogue: Dangerous Memories	p. 239
Contributors	p. 257
Index	p. 261
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