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Title

  • An)archive : childhood, memory, and the Cold War

Other Title

  • Childhood, memory, and the Cold War
  • Archive : childhood, memory, and the Cold War

Summary

  • "What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible futures? These questions are at the heart of this book. This edited collection stems from a collaboration between academics and artists who came together to collectively remember their own experiences of growing up on both sides of the 'Iron Curtain'. Looking beyond official historical archives, the book gathers memories that have been erased or forgotten, delegitimized or essentialized, or, at best, reinterpreted nostalgically within the dominant frameworks of the East-West divide. And it reassembles and (re)stores these childhood memories in a form of an anarchive': a site for merging, mixing, connecting, but also juxtaposing personal experiences, public memory, political rhetoric, places, times, and artifacts. These acts and arts of collective remembering tell about possible futures--and the past's futures--what life during the Cold War might have been but also what it has become."--Page 4 of cover.

Names

  • Mnemo ZIN, editor

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, [2024]

Headings

  • -  Cold War--Social aspects
  • -  Cold War--Psychological aspects
  • -  Children--Social conditions--20th century
  • -  Children--Psychology
  • -  Collective memory

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website; viewed on 2024-05-13).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (vii, 415 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • D843

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021388883

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Mnemo Zin, editor. Anarchive: childhood, memory, and the Cold War. [Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021388883/.

APA citation style:

Mnemo Zin, editor. (2024) Anarchive: childhood, memory, and the Cold War. [Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021388883/.

MLA citation style:

Mnemo Zin, editor. Anarchive: childhood, memory, and the Cold War. [Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2024] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021388883/>.