Books in the Routledge Studies in Memory and Narrative series

Analysing Stasi files and interviews with one time informers, the author examines the confrontation with this legacy in united Germany. She discusses the daily machinations of the state and the motivation and justification of being an informer.

This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.

This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. The essays highlight the role of oral history in the documentation of the visual and performing arts.

This volume represents, explores and interrogates the current developments in the study of memory, engaging directly with the place of memory in culture, and with memory's meanings and history.

This book is a fascinating collection of life stories and family history interview material collected by the editors and two Russian groups of interviewers.

This volume represents, explores and interrogates the current developments in the study of memory, engaging directly with the place of memory in culture, and with memory's meanings and history.

A collection of essays by international academics in social sciences and the humanities which examines how far the expectations and forms of genre shape different kinds of autobiography and influence the messages they convey. Contributors look at the problem of genre definition and how the evolution of genre as a concept can be traced.

Between 1977 and 1985, some 20,000 Ethiopian Jews left their homes in Ethiopia to embark on a secret and highly traumatic exodus to Israel. This volume focuses on the experience of this journey, its meaning for the people who made it, and its relation to the initial encounter with Israeli society.

This work investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. Contributors are drawn from a range of backgrounds, including art and architectural history, film, theatre and performance studies, social and cultural history.

This book examines the roots of contemporary environmental consciousness and action in terms of both popular experience and tradition. A wide range of case-studies explore traditions and myths that shape our environmental thought.

This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory.

This book gives voice to Japanese men and women, and to the British who have worked for non-Westeners in the West. A significant and timely analysis of the influence of non-Western companies in the city.

A series of international case studies examine forms of war memory and commemoration, highlighting the relations of power that structure the ways in which wars can be remembered.

In this volume leading academics explore the relationship between the experiences of terror and helplessness, the way in which survivors remember and the representation of these memories in the language and form of their life stories.

A series of international case studies examine forms of war memory and commemoration, highlighting the relations of power that structure the ways in which wars can be remembered.

This volume explores the cultural importance of concepts and theories of memory. Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings of Modernism, it examines the importance of memory in cultural history.