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Historical Responsibility and the Mediation of Difficult Pasts

Citation: Bartolini, Guido and Ford, Joseph (2024) Historical Responsibility and the Mediation of Difficult Pasts. In: Mediating Historical Responsibility: Memories of 'Difficult Pasts' in European Culture. Media and Cultural Memory . De Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 3-31. ISBN 9783111012971

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Mediating Memories and Responsibility brings together leading scholars and new voices in the interdisciplinary fields of memory studies, history, and cultural studies to explore the ways culture, and cultural representations, have been at the forefront of bringing the memory of past injustices to the attention of audiences for many years. Engaging with the darkest pages of twentieth-century European history, dealing with the legacy of colonialism, war crimes, genocides, dictatorships, and racism, the authors of this collection of critical essays address Europe’s ‘difficult pasts’ through the study of cultural products, examining historical narratives, literary texts, films, documentaries, theatre, poetry, graphic novels, visual artworks, material heritage, and the cultural and political reception of official government reports. Adopting an intermedial approach to the study of European history, the book probes the relationship between memory and responsibility, investigating what it means to take responsibility for the past and showing how cultural products are fundamentally entangled in this process.

Creators: Bartolini, Guido and Ford, Joseph (0000-0002-0361-621X) and
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111013299
Official URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/978...
Subjects: Culture, Language & Literature
History
Human Rights & Development Studies
Law
Politics
Keywords: Responsibility, Memory, Difficult Pasts, Cultural History
Divisions: Institute of Modern Languages Research
Dates:
  • 15 July 2024 (published)

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