Memory, the City and the Legacy of World War II in East Central Europe: The Ghosts of Others

ISBN-13: 9780367785628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 242 str.

Uilleam Blacker

Opis

After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe found themselves living in cities with traces of the foreign cultures of former inhabitants. This book explores this increasingly important phenomenon to show how other pasts are incorporated into local cultural memory.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Memory of Lost Others and the City as Text. 2. Absence, Ruins and Remembering. 3. Martyrdom, Memory and the Other City. 4. Thrills, Chills and Sensations: Lost Others in Consumer and Popular Culture. 5. Popular Literature and Lost Others. 6. City, Text and Photograph. Conclusion

O autorze

Uilleam Blacker is a lecturer in comparative Russian and East European culture at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.