| Abstract | Bunzl examines the specificities of Austrian textures of memory to understand the complex historical processes, which are embodied both in memorials' "biographies" and their "interactive and dialogical quality". In the Austrian case, any possible texture of memory is fragmented by the simultaneous presence of the differential experiences of victims, perpetrators and bystanders--complexified by the experiences of successive generations whose life trajectories were shaped by a particular political field, itself inextricably tied to the events of the period between the Anschluss in 1938 and the liberation in 1945.
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