Remembering Migration, Rethinking Belonging: Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft [Where You Come From]

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction
5. Historical Responsibility and the Mediation of Difficult Pasts 1
6. Responsibility and the Mediation of History
7. Memory as Interpretation: A Hermeneutics of Agency, Historical Responsibility, and Jenny Erpenbeck’s Heimsuchung [Visitation] 35
8. Beyond Neutrality: Historianship and Moral Judgement 55
9. Impure Memory and the Figurine: Rithy Panh’s L’Image manquante [The Missing Picture] 71
10. Responsibility, Complicity, and the Poetics of Discomfort: Commemorating Dictatorships in Contemporary Central and Eastern European Documentary Fiction 85
11. Legacies of Colonialism
12. End of Empire (Channel 4, 1985) and the Public Memory of Decolonisation in Britain 107
13. Why Care about the Violence of the Past? Addressing Collective Responsibility in British Debates about Colonial Violence during the Mau Mau Insurgency 127
14. Haunting Debris: The Transnational Legacies of Italy’s Colonial Past in Addis Ababa 151
15. Genocides
16. The Holocaust and Decolonisation in Contemporary Ukrainian Commemorative Culture, Literature, and Art 177
17. Symbolic Responsibility: Holocaust Memory in Romania through Radu Jude’s Archival Documentaries 197
18. Between Guiltless Responsibility and Current French Interests: Uncovering Motive in the Media Coverage of the Duclert Report in Le Monde and the Rwandan New Times and Pan African Review 217
19. Memories of Dictatorships and World War II
20. Memory Unboxed: Reckoning with German Memories of the Second World War in Nora Krug’s Heimat: A German Family Album (2018) 243
21. “Democratic Memory,” Public History, and Responsibility in Spain 261
22. Communism without Guilt: Autobiographical Family Narratives of Communists in Poland 279
23. Fighting Racism and Rethinking Belonging
24. Remembering Migration, Rethinking Belonging: Saša Stanišić’s Herkunft [Where You Come From] 295
25. Archive of Solidarity after Hanau: Remembering Right-Wing Terror, Racism, and Antisemitism in Germany 319
26. Private Memory, Postmemory, and Public Memory in a Battlefield: Mediterranean Border Crossings, Italian Public Discourse on the Invasion, and the Counter-Public Political Project of a Common Postcolonial (Post-)Memory 341
27. Contributors 365
28. Index 369