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Potential readers of Afterlife of Events may hesitate, wondering whether another book about cultural memory is really necessary. They do not need to worry: this volume offers both new ideas and new examples. The authors clarify old concepts and introduce new ones, such as ‘trigger event’ (Remaud), ‘negative memory’ (Lorenz) or ‘cultural aphasia’ (Leerssen). They also offer a series of perceptive case studies. My role in these afterthoughts is to try to link the different contributions to the volume and to present them as part of a larger whole. Since the case studies are mainly concerned with Northern Europe, from Ireland to Estonia via the Netherlands and Germany, I shall be offering brief examples from Southern Europe and South America as well as from my own country, England. Although the essays in this volume are innovative in various ways, I shall try to place them in a historiographical tradition. I shall also comment on a few of the volume’s central concepts.
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Burke, P. (2015). Afterthoughts on Afterlives. In: Tamm, M. (eds) Afterlife of Events. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137470188_14
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