Traditions, Concepts, (Dis-)Continuities
Memory Research in Poland
Kornelia Kończal, Joanna Wawrzyniak
Deutsche Fassung
Abstract
In international memory research, works from the United States, France and Germany dominate the field. By contrast, most of the works on memory and remembrance by Central and East-Central European authors go unknown. This has to do with the shadow of the “iron curtain”, which still falls across parts of academia. The language barrier also plays a role. The rich history of Polish memory research shows that even thinkers such as Stefan Czarnowski, who made fundamental contributions to the study of collective memory and memory research, before the terms were coined, have yet to be discovered.
(Osteuropa 5/2012, pp. 19–46)