Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgements vii
3. Content ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Theorising Transcultural Memory
6. A Dialogue on the Ethics and Politics of Transcultural Memory 29
7. Cultural Memory and Transcultural Memory – a Conceptual Analysis 39
8. Types of Transculturality: Narrative Frameworks and the Commemoration of 9/11 61
9. Part Two: Problematising Transcultural Memory
10. Europeanized Vernacular Memory: A Case Study from Germany and Poland 83
11. Integrating Europe, Integrating Memories: The EU’s Politics of Memory since 1945 103
12. Britain and the Formation of Contemporary Holocaust Consciousness: A Product of Europeanization, or Exercise in Triangulation? 119
13. Babi Yar: Transcultural Memories of Atrocity From Kiev to Denver 139
14. Part Three: The Possibilities of Transcultural Memory
15. Motion and Sound: Investigating the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Centre 165
16. Collective Loss and Commemoration after the Yugoslav Wars: Dubravka Ugresić’s Museumizing Gaze 191
17. German writers remember 9/11: Katharina Hacker’s The Have-Nots 209
18. Cross-cultural Memoryscapes: Memory of Colonialism and its Shifting Contexts in Contemporary German Literature 225
19. Black Patches and Rotting Weeds: The Great Famine as a Transcultural Figure of Memory in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1855–1885 247
20. Contributors 267
21. Index of Names 271
22. Index of Terms 273