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States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection(Politics, History, and Culture)

States of Memory: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection(Politics, History, and Culture)


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"States of Memory" illuminates the construction of national memory from a comparative, cross-case perspective. The essays collected here emphasize that memory itself has a history: not only do particular meanings change, but the very faculty of memory - its place in social relations and the forms it takes - varies over time. Integrating theories of memory and of nationalism with case studies, these essays stake a vital middle ground between particular and universal approaches to social memory studies. Sociologists and historians, the contributors describe societies' struggles to produce and then use ideas of what a normal past should look like. Contributors examine claims about the genuineness of revolution (in fascist Italy and Communist Russia), of inclusiveness (in the United States and Australia), of innocence (in Germany), and of inevitability (Israel). Essayists explore the reputation of Confucius among Maoist leaders during China's Cultural Revolution; commemorations of Martin Luther King Jr. in the US House and Senate; the "end" of the postwar era in Japan; and how national calendars - in signifying what to remember, celebrate, or mourn - structure national identification. Above all, these essays reveal that memory is never unitary, no matter how hard various powers strive to make it so.



Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction / Jeffrey K. Olick 1
Rethinking a Great Event: The October Revolution as Memory Project / Frederick C. Corney 17
Of Storytellers and Master Narratives: Modernity, Memory, and History in Fascist Italy / Simonetta Falasca Zamponi 43
Idols of the Emperor / Matt K. Matsuda 72
Confucius and the Cultural Revolution: A Study in Collective Memory / Tong Zhang and Barry Schwartz 101
Institutional Legacies and Collective Memories: The Case of the Spanish Transition to Democracy / Paloma Aguilar 128
When Do Collective Memories Last? Founding Moments in the United States and Australia / Lyn Spillman 161
Legacies and Liabilities of an Insurgent Past: Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. on the House and Senate Floor / Francesca Polletta 193
Postnationalist Pasts: The Case of Israel / Uri Ram 227
What Does It Mean to Normalize the Past? Official Memory in German Politics since 1989 / Jeffrey K. Olick 259
The "End" of the Postwar: Japan at the Turn of the Millennium / Carol Gluck 289
Calendars and History: A Comparative Study of the Social Organization of National Memory / Eviatar Zerubavel 315
Afterword: Borges and Brass / Charles Tilly 339
Contributors 347
Index 351

About the Author :

Jeffrey K. Olick is Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.



Review :
“An old Yugoslav aphorism goes: ‘The future is not hard to predict, but the past is forever changing.’ The essays gathered in this volume all deal in one way or another with the way people organize their collective memories of a past, and particularly a national past. The range of topics is remarkable, and the essays themselves are uniformly excellent-beginning with Jeffrey K. Olick's masterful introduction.”-Kai Erikson, author of A New Species of Trouble: The Human Experience of Modern Disasters


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822330639
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Series Title: Politics, History, and Culture
  • Weight: 571 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0822330636
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jul 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Sub Title: Continuities, Conflicts, and Transformations in National Retrospection
  • Width: 152 mm


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