Youth and memory in Europe : defining the past, shaping the future / ed. by Félix Krawatzek, Nina Friess

This volume contends that young individuals across Europe relate to their country’s history in complex and often ambivalent ways. It pays attention to how both formal education and broader culture communicate ideas about the past, and how young people respond to these ideas. The studies collected in...

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Other Authors:Krawatzek, Félix (Contributor)
Friess, Nina (Contributor)
Connan-Pintado, Christiane (Contributor)
Drechselová, Lucie G. (Contributor)
Edwards, Allyson (Contributor)
Erbil, Duygu (Contributor)
García Carcedo, Pilar (Contributor)
Hennebert, Solveig (Contributor)
McGlynn, Jade (Contributor)
Milivojevic, Mirko (Contributor)
Milivojević, Mirko (Contributor)
Morin, Paul Max (Contributor)
Müller-Suleymanova, Dilyara (Contributor)
O’Donohoe, M. Paula (Contributor)
Rabbia, Roberto (Contributor)
Regueiro Salgado, Begoña (Contributor)
Reynolds, Chris (Contributor)
Richard, Thomas (Contributor)
Sawkins, Isabel (Contributor)
Thaidigsmann, Karoline (Contributor)
Weller, Nina (Contributor)
Format: Online-Resource
Language:English
Published:Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]
©2022
Series:Media and cultural memory 34
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Transmitting the Past to Young Minds
Part I: Regional Perspectives
A Former Soviet Republic? Historical Perspectives on Belarus
Without Roots? The Historical Realm of Young Belarusians
“Let’s be Belarusians!” On the Reappropriation of Belarusian History in Popular Culture
The “Wild Nineties”: Youth Engagement, Memory and Continuities between Yeltsin’s and Putin’s Russia
Russian Youth as Subject and Object of the 1990s “Memory War”
“Dear Young Warriors”: Memories of Sacrifice, Debt and Youth Militarisation in Yeltsin’s Russia
The Making of a Young Martyr: Discursive Legacies of the Turkish “Youth Myth” in the Afterlife of Deniz Gezmiş
Youth au Féminin: Gendering Activist Memory in Turkey
Official Narratives of the Civil War and the Franco Regime in the Twenty-first Century
Transmitting the Civil War across Generations: How Spanish Youth Acquire their Memories
(Post)-Yugoslav Memory Travels: National and Transnational Dimensions
“I am something that no longer exists ...”: Yugonostalgia among Diaspora Youth
The Yugoslav 1980s and Youth Portrayals in Post-Yugoslav Films and TV
Part II: Thematic Perspectives
Promoting Patriotism, Suppressing Dissent Views: The Making of Historical Narratives and National Identity in Russia and Poland
Living Forms of Patriotism: Engaging Young Russians in Military History?
Engaging Young Readers in History: Alternative Historical Narratives in Contemporary Russian Children’s Literature
Engaging the Reader − Revising Patriotism: Polish Children’s and Crossover Literature in the Twenty-First Century
Dealing with Contested Pasts from Northern Ireland to French Algeria: Transformative Strategies of Agonism in Action?
The Dark Corners of European Colonial Memory in Films and Literature
Fictionalisation of Slavery in Children’s Books in France
King Sebastian and Lost Paradise? Amnesia and Opposing Myths
Beyond the Normative Understanding of Holocaust Memory: Between Cosmopolitan Memory and Local Reality
Understanding Terrible Crimes: Youth Memory of the Holocaust in the Russian Federation
“I am not comfortable with that”: Commemorative Practices among Young Jewish People in France
Notes on Contributors
Index