Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. About the Cover Image xi
5. List of Abbreviations xii
6. Introduction: Writing against the Backdrop of European Memory Politics after 1989 1
7. Part I. Contextualizing Literature of Mnemonic Migration: Political and Aesthetic Settings
8. 1: Politics and Memory: Overcoming the Mnemonic Division of Europe? 31
9. 2: Setting the Scene: Aesthetic Representations of Europe 51
10. Part II. Imaginations of Europe: Nazism and Stalinism Rethought
11. Introduction 69
12. 3: Redefining the Jewish Past: Vladimir Vertlib 71
13. 4: Family Memory as a Vessel of Amnesia: Katja Petrowskaja 105
14. 5: The East-West Division through the Lens of the Divided Germany: Barbara Honigmann 142
15. Part III. Contesting Germany’s Social Framework of Memory
16. Introduction 177
17. 6: Traumatic Recollections: Olga Grjasnowa 179
18. 7: Dichotomy as a Principle of Mnemonic Migration: Lena Gorelik 211
19. Conclusion 250
20. Bibliography 257
21. Index 281