Dynamics of Memory and Identity in Contemporary Europe

Zusatztext

<p> The collapse of the Iron Curtain, the renationalization of eastern Europe, and the simultaneous eastward expansion of the European Union have all impacted the way the past is remembered in todays eastern Europe. At the same time, in recent years, the Europeanization of Holocaust memory and a growing sense of the need to stage a more self-critical memory has significantly changed the way in which western Europe commemorates and memorializes the past. The increasing dissatisfaction among scholars with the blanket, undifferentiated use of the term collective memory is evolving in new directions. This volume brings the tension into focus while addressing the state of memory theory itself.</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><strong>Eric Langenbacher</strong>is a Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Honors and Special Programs in the Department of Government, Georgetown University. He is editor of<a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=LangenbacherBetween"><em>Between Left and Right: The 2009 Bundestag Election and the Transformation of the German Party System</em></a> (Berghahn, 2010).</p>

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