1st Edition

Memory in Hungarian Fascism A Cultural History

By Zoltán Kékesi Copyright 2023
220 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

220 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Memory in Hungarian Fascism: A Cultural History argues that fascist memory had a key role in the historical formation and later return of fascism. Tracing the trajectory of a perennial figure of fascist memory, the cult of Eszter Sólymosi, from interwar Hungary through the Cold War West to contemporary Hungary, the book covers a century of fascism and offers a unique combination of fascism... Read more

Introduction: Fascist Memory on the Move

Part I: Initiation

Chapter 1: The Birth of an Image: Early Antisemitism and the Challenge to the Liberal Age

Part II: Resurrection

Chapter 2: Fascism on the Rise: Class Politics and Anti-Liberal Memory

Chapter 3: The Bleeding Icon: Rural Migration and Fascist Poetry

Chapter 4: Transcending Babel: Memory in the Era of Fascist Transformation

Chapter 5: Resurrection, Now: Fascist Memory during the Holocaust

Part III: Transmigration

Chapter 6: Fascist Memory in Transition: The Early Postwar Years

Chapter 7: Fascist Memory in the Cold War Era: Writing in Exile

Part IV: Repatriation

Chapter 8: New Alliances: Fascist Legacy in the Era of Transition

Chapter 9: Sonic Memories: A Neofascist Cult in the Making

Epilogue

Biography

Zoltán Kékesi is a cultural historian of Central and Eastern Europe. His publications include Agents of Liberation.Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Art and Documentary Film (2015). He works as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Collective Violence, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University College London.