Beschreibung:
After the Second World War, millions of people across Eastern Europe found themselves living in cities with traces of the foreign cultures of former inhabitants. This book explores this increasingly important phenomenon to show how other pasts are incorporated into local cultural memory.
Introduction 1. Memory of Lost Others and the City as Text. 2. Absence, Ruins and Remembering. 3. Martyrdom, Memory and the Other City. 4. Thrills, Chills and Sensations: Lost Others in Consumer and Popular Culture. 5. Popular Literature and Lost Others. 6. City, Text and Photograph. Conclusion