Narrative Templates in Representations of Conflict and Civil Warfare
PURPOSES AND IDEAS OF THE WORKSHOP
- Organised by Hans Lauge Hansen, Francesco Caviglia, Leonardo Cecchini (contact: Leonardo Cecchini)
This workshop explores the role of narrative discourse in the intergenerational memory processes of conflict and civil warfare. The concept of narrative discourse is to be understood in its broadest sense as fictional and non-fictional representations and all the hybrid genres in between, based on linguistic, visual and corporal/physical expressions.
“Conflict and civil warfare” refers to a broad range of historical events which affected individuals and groups within the same national community, like the Nazi suppression of the German opposition in the thirties, the Spanish Civil, War, Stalinism in USSR, political violence in the ’60s and ’70s, etc.
What kind of social processes are required to convert communicative memory into cultural memory?What is the role of narrative in these processes? Which are the generic templates employed? And what is the social impact of these representations?
- The Stab-in-the-back narrative on the defeat in The Great War
UDNÆVNELSER OG PRISMODTAGELSER
Annelli Sandbæk ny professor på AU (01.06.2011)
Jan Frystyk udnævnt til professor (27.05.2011)
