History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from September 2000

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from September 2000

From the Editors.
September 22, 2000... This is our last issue as editors of History & Memory. We have been fortunate to work on this journal since it was founded twelve years ago, but, as is often the case, fortune has its limits... Due to unresolved institutional quandaries...

Against Holocaust-Sublime.
September 22, 2000... Naive Reference and the Generation of Memory To the generation that directly suffered the Holocaust or witnessed it at one remove, ethical imperatives to remember Auschwitz must have seemed and seem clear and simple; but not today when the...

Some Random Thoughts on History's Recent Past.
September 22, 2000... In these days of mixing genres and blurring boundaries between disciplines and concepts, when some words have changed their meaning and others have none left, it may not be superfluous to begin these reflections on history and the historian's...

The Future of the Past.
September 22, 2000... Countermemory anal Postmemory in Contemporary American Post-Holocaust Narratives Remember the Future, Imagine the Past Carlos Fuentes AN AMERICAN HOLOCAUST Collective memory cannot be divorced from its construction in...

Traveling as a Culture of Remembrance.
September 22, 2000... Traces of National Socialism in West Germany, 1945-1960(*) For a long time, too long perhaps, the central question in Vergangenheitsbewaltigung studies--that is, studies exploring the ways in which Germans have attempted since 1945 to...

Representing the Disputed Past of Northern Scotland.
September 22, 2000... The Highland Clearances in Museums The past and its representation have been the focus of much recent work in the area of cultural studies, history, sociology and anthropology; interdisciplinary approaches have also enhanced our knowledge...

The Funeral of Imre Nagy.
September 22, 2000... Contested History and the Power of Memory Culture(*) On 16 June 1958 Imre Nagy, who had been the prime minister of Hungary during the ill-fated Revolution of 1956, was put to death by the Soviet-backed regime of Janos Kadar and buried in an...