Peripheral Memories Public And Private Forms Of Experiencing And Narrating The Past 1 Aufl Elisabeth Boesen Editor Fabienne Lentz Editor Michel Margue Editor Denis Scuto Editor Rene Wagener Editor by Elisabeth Boesen (editor); Fabienne Lentz (editor); Michel Margue (editor); Denis Scuto (editor); Renée Wagener (editor) 9783839421161, 3839421160 instant download after payment.

After a period of intense work on national memory cultures, we are observing a growing interest in memory both as a social and an individual practice. Memory studies tend to focus on a particular field of memory processes, namely those connected with war, persecution and expulsion. In this sense, the memory - or rather the trauma - of the Holocaust is paradigmatic for the entire research field. The Holocaust is furthermore increasingly understood as constitutive of a global memory community which transcends national memories and mediates universal values. The present volume diverges from this perspective by dealing also with everyday subjects of memory. This allows for a more complete view of the interdependencies between public and private memory and, more specifically, public and family memory.