Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania by Maria Bucur-

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Heroes and Victims by Maria Bucur-Deckard Explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes - from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes-from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining the interplay of centrally articulated and locally developed commemorations, Maria Bucurs study engages monumental sites of memory, local funerary markers, rituals, and street names as well as autobiographical writings, novels, oral narratives, and film. This book reveals the ways in which a communitys religious, ethnic, economic, regional, and gender traditions shaped local efforts at memorializing its war dead. Notes The cultural politics of commemorating war Author Biography Maria Bucur is John W. Hill Chair in East European History and Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania and editor (with Nancy M. Wingfield) of Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe (IUP, 2006). Table of Contents ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Memory Traces: On Local Practices of Remembering and Commemorating1. Death and Ritual: Mourning and Commemorative Practices before 19142. Mourning, Burying, and Remembering the War Dead: How Communities Coped with the Memory of Wartime Violence, 1918-19403. Remembering the Great War through Autobiographical Narratives4. The Politics of Commemoration in Interwar Romania, 1919-1940: Dialogues and Conflicts5. War Commemorations and State Propaganda under Dictatorship: From the Crusade against Bolshevism to Ceausescus Cult of Personality, 1940-19896. Everyone a Victim: Forging the Mythology of Anti-Communism Counter-Memory7. The Dilemmas of Post-Memory in Post-Communist RomaniaNotesSelected BibliographyIndex Review "Heroes and Victims demonstrates not only how individual, local, and national discourses of remembrance have operated in the complex geopolitical and ethnic world of 20th-century Romania but also how and why post-communist Romanians and others in the 21st century have moved to a post-memory discourse." Melissa Bokovoy, University of New Mexico "An important book by one of the major emerging voices in east European studies." Charles King, Georgetown University Promotional The cultural politics of commemorating war Long Description Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes--from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining the interplay of centrally articulated and locally developed commemorations, Maria Bucurs study engages monumental sites of memory, local funerary markers, rituals, and street names as well as autobiographical writings, novels, oral narratives, and film. This book reveals the ways in which a communitys religious, ethnic, economic, regional, and gender traditions shaped local efforts at memorializing its war dead. Review Text In this impressive study of Romanian memory from 1877-78 to 2007, historian Bucur (Indiana Univ.) demonstrates that Western-centric narratives cannot adequately explain eastern European experiences. Romanias specific territorial development and its diverse religious and ethnic composition determined identity construction and commemorative practice, which granted Orthodox ethnic Romanians a privileged position over minorities (Hungarians, Germans, Jews, Catholics, Protestants) throughout the period. Bucur illuminates the gendered aspect of remembering by investigating who remembers and what is considered worthy of remembrance. She argues convincingly that the state (whether monarchical, fascist, or communist) consistently attempted to regulate and instrumentalize commemorative practices, yet it could not compel adherence at the local level. This led to a disjuncture between official and vernacular memories of WW I and WW II and, in the communist era, to the development of counter-memories (i.e., counter to official narratives). Romanian memory of war stressed the heroism and suffering of ethnic Romanian soldiers and silenced the memory of women and minorities; topics such as violence committed by Romanians and the Holocaust were all but ignored until the postcommunist period. This excellent study analyzes commemorative rituals, monuments, literature, film, and memoirs to great effect. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Most levels/libraries. -- ChoiceG. F. Schroeder, St. Johns University/College of St. Benedict, Minnesota, August 2010 Review Quote "[T]this is an ambitious book that effectively straddles disciplines, historical eras, and analytical levels. The data are remarkably comprehensive for such a difficult theme. Bucurs narrative tells a complex story that few historians of Eastern and Central Europe could handle in such a sophisticated manner." --Canadian American Slavic Studies Promotional "Headline" The cultural politics of commemorating war Details ISBN025322134X Short Title HEROES & VICTIMS Publisher Indiana University Press Language English ISBN-10 025322134X ISBN-13 9780253221346 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Indiana University Press Subtitle Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States Series Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian & East European Studies (Paperback) Year 2009 Illustrations 24 b&w illus., 2 maps Publication Date 2009-11-20 UK Release Date 2009-11-20 AU Release Date 2009-11-20 NZ Release Date 2009-11-20 US Release Date 2009-11-20 Author Maria Bucur-Deckard Pages 376 Alternative 9780253003911 DEWEY 949.802 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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