Youth and Memory in Europe: Defining the Past, Shaping the Future (Media and Cultural Memory / Medien Und Kulturelle Erinnerung, 34)

Open Access This volume contends that young individuals across Europe relate to their country’s history in complex and often ambivalent ways. It pays attention to how both formal education and broader culture communicate ideas about the past, and how young people respond to these ideas. The studies collected in this volume show that such ideas about the past are central to the formation of the group identities of nations, social movements, or religious groups. Young people express received historical narratives in new, potentially subversive, ways. As young people tend to be more mobile and ready to interrogate their own roots than later generations, they selectively privilege certain aspects of their identities and their identification with their family or nation while neglecting others. This collection aims to correct the popular misperception that young people are indifferent towards history and prove instead that historical narratives are constitutive to their individual identities and their sense of belonging to something broader than themselves. Acknowledgements List of Figures List of Tables Transmitting the Past to Young Minds Part I: Regional Perspectives A Former Soviet Republic? Historical Perspectives on Belarus Without Roots? The Historical Realm of Young Belarusians “Let’s be Belarusians!” On the Reappropriation of Belarusian History in Popular Culture The “Wild Nineties”: Youth Engagement, Memory and Continuities between Yeltsin’s and Putin’s Russia Russian Youth as Subject and Object of the 1990s “Memory War” “Dear Young Warriors”: Memories of Sacrifice, Debt and Youth Militarisation in Yeltsin’s Russia The Making of a Young Martyr: Discursive Legacies of the Turkish “Youth Myth” in the Afterlife of Deniz Gezmiş Youth au Féminin: Gendering Activist Memory in Turkey Official Narratives of the Civil War and the Franco Regime in the Twenty-first Century Anti-militaristic and Pacifist Values across Spanish Children’s Literature Transmitting the Civil War across Generations: How Spanish Youth Acquire their Memories (Post)-Yugoslav Memory Travels: National and Transnational Dimensions “I am something that no longer exists ...”: Yugonostalgia among Diaspora Youth The Yugoslav 1980s and Youth Portrayals in Post-Yugoslav Films and TV Part II: Thematic Perspectives Promoting Patriotism, Suppressing Dissent Views: The Making of Historical Narratives and National Identity in Russia and Poland Living Forms of Patriotism: Engaging Young Russians in Military History? Engaging Young Readers in History: Alternative Historical Narratives in Contemporary Russian Children’s Literature Engaging the Reader − Revising Patriotism: Polish Children’s and Crossover Literature in the Twenty-First Century Dealing with Contested Pasts from Northern Ireland to French Algeria: Transformative Strategies of Agonism in Action? The Dark Corners of European Colonial Memory in Films and Literature Fictionalisation of Slavery in Children’s Books in France King Sebastian and Lost Paradise? Amnesia and Opposing Myths Beyond the Normative Understanding of Holocaust Memory: Between Cosmopolitan Memory and Local Reality Understanding Terrible Crimes: Youth Memory of the Holocaust in the Russian Federation “I am not comfortable with that”: Commemorative Practices among Young Jewish People in France Appendix 379 383

Im Kontext der kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung widmet sich diese interdisziplinär ausgerichtete Reihe dem Verhältnis von Medien und kultureller Erinnerung. Die hier vorgestellten Studien behandeln die ganze Bandbreite der durch Medien konstruierten, tradierten und verbreiteten Erinnerung. Schrift und Bild, das Kino und die 'neuen' digitalen Medien, Intermedialität, Transmedialität und Remediation sowie die sozialen, zunehmend transnationalen und transkulturellen, Kontexte der mediatisierten Erinnerung gehören zu den Forschungsinteressen der Reihe. Ziel ist es, eine internationale Plattform für die interdisziplinäre Medien- und Gedächtnisforschung zu schaffen. Eingereichte Manuskripte werden im peer review Verfahren durch externe Experten begutachtet.

Den Herausgebern, Astrid Erll (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) und Ansgar Nünning (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) ist ein internationaler Beirat aus renommierten Wissenschaftlern assoziiert:

• Aleida Assmann (Universität Konstanz)
• Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam)
• Vita Fortunati (University of Bologna)
• Richard Grusin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
• Udo Hebel (Universität Regensburg)
• Andrew Hoskins (University of Glasgow)
• Wulf Kansteiner (Binghamton University)
• Alison Landsberg (George Mason University)
• Claus Leggewie (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen)
• Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia)
• Susannah Radstone (University of South Australia)
• Ann Rigney (Utrecht University)
• Michael Rothberg (University of Illinois)
• Werner Sollors (Harvard University)
• Frederic Tygstrup (University of Copenhagen)
• Harald Welzer (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen)

"This volume contends that young individuals across Europe relate to their country's history in complex and often ambivalent ways. It pays attention to how both formal education and broader culture communicate ideas about the past, and how young people respond to these ideas. The studies collected in this volume show that such ideas about the past are central to the formation of the group identities of nations, social movements, or religious groups. Young people express received historical narratives in new, potentially subversive, ways. As young people tend to be more mobile and ready to interrogate their own roots than later generations, they selectively privilege certain aspects of their identities and their identification with their family or nation while neglecting others. This collection aims to correct the popular misperception that young people are indifferent towards history and prove instead that historical narratives are constitutive to their individual identities and their sense of belonging to something broader than themselves." -- Publisher's website