Remembering Transitions: Local Revisions and Global Crossings in Culture and Media 9783110707793, 9783110707700

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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction. Remembering Transitions: Approaching Memories in/of Crisis
Part I: Transitions’ Working Memories
Herta Müller and Katherine Verdery as Spies: File-Memoirs as Forms of Remembering through and against the Secret Police Archives
Conflictive Cultural Narratives in the Collective Memory of the Spanish Transition: The Case of Trampa para Pájaros by José Luis Alonso De Santos
Lost in Transition? Understanding Hungarian and Romanian 1989 Regime Change through Metalepsis and Collage
Transition as Dysrhythmia: Luo Yijun, Generational Logic, and Taiwanese Post-postmodernism
Refusing Transitional Time: Re-opening the Unresolved Truth and Reconciliation Commission Cases and the Future of Memory in Postapartheid South Africa
Part II: Reworking Memories of Transitions
Memoryscapes of the Southern European Transitions during the Great Recession
Remembering the 1990s in Russia as a Form of Political Protest: Mnemonic Counterpublics
We Were Hungry, but We Were Also Free: Narratives of Russia’s First Post-Soviet Decade on Instagram
Romanian Transition and Transnational Crossings: A Well-Traveled Communist Biddy
Writing Exile(s) from the Periphery: Hijos del exilio and Transnational Memory of the Southern Cone Democratic Transitions
Remembering Transition in Contemporary South African and Russian Literatures: Between Melancholia and Repair
Afterword
Refusing the Anti-Politics Machine: On Post-Transitional, Transitional Times
About the Authors
Index

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