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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"generational memory"”.
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Created in the image of: Mormonism and the rhetorical production of identity in privately-published family histories
… are also analyzed in terms of communal and generational memory, temporal proximity, and communal discourses. An important conclusion in this study is that this rhetorical production of identity often results in silencing and marginalizing certain ancestors, such as those whose actions or …
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Post-GDR memory--cultural discourses of loss and assertion in reunified Germany
When considering the blockage of a nuanced GDR memory within post-unification discourses, the historical moment of 1989 can be understood as a moment of loss for East Germans. While post-unification scholarship has addressed questions of GDR identity and generational memory in other post-1989 …
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Sephardi Jewish converts in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Quest for Zion In The Dutch Republic
… the extent to which the conversos drew on the memory of Judaism of their ancestors to invent this new identity. In Amsterdam the new Jews nurtured the ‘Hope of Israel’, a Messianic chain of desire to return to Zion, while creating in Amsterdam their Dutch Jerusalem, a proto-Zionist enclave. The …
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Practices of Assembling in (Post-)Dictatorial Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (1973-2019)
… explores how resistance to these regimes and the memory politics forged in their wake hinge on simultaneously creative and political acts of assembling. The focus is on artistic projects that facilitated identification, dissent, exchange, and debate during these contexts of political repression, …
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The difficulty in forging a bond: the inner workings of postmemory within family relationships in Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe and Uwe Timm's Am Beispiel Meines Bruders
… histories needed to be reconciled and the memory of its citizens was called upon to be revisited as well. With a major political event, such as WWII in the German history, Germans were prompted to revisit individual memories more closely tied to their own family and themselves. The war and …