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Author:   Laszlo Muntean (Radboud University, The Netherlands) ,  Liedeke Plate (Radboud University, The Netherlands) ,  Anneke Smelik (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781138203235

ISBN 10:   1138203238
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   02 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Prelude: The Memory Cabinet of Mrs. K. 1960 A poem by Susan Stewart 1. Things to Remember: Introduction to Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture (László Munteán, Liedeke Plate, and Anneke Smelik) Part I: Material Remains: Ruins and Souvenirs 2. El Helicoide: Modern Ruins and the Urban Imaginary (Celeste Olalquiaga) 3. Souvenirs and Memory Manipulation in the Roman Empire: The Glass Flasks of Ancient Pozzuoli (Maggie L. Popkin) Part II: Entangled Memories 4. How Memory Comes to Matter: From Social Media to the Internet of Things (Elisa Giaccardi and Liedeke Plate) 5. Memory and Materiality in Hussein Chalayan’s Techno-Fashion (Lianne Toussaint and Anneke Smelik) 6. Size Matters: Karl Ove Knausgård’s Min Kamp and Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 as (Anti-) Monumental Novels (Inge van de Ven) Part III: Reenactment, Affect, and Remembrance 7. Archives of Affect: Performance, Reenactment, and the Becoming of Memory (Louis van den Hengel) 8. Crystal Tears and Silver Maces: Materializing Memories of the Suffering Mother (Willy Jansen) 9. The Staging of Memory in Los Rubios by Albertina Carri (Anna Forné) Part IV: Corporeality and Objects of Trauma 10. Chilling Burlesque: The Act of Killing (Aleid Fokkema) 11. Modeling the Memories of Others: David Levinthal’s I.E.D. War in Afghanistan and Iraq (László Munteán)

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This book arises from authors doing rigorous interdisciplinary work and demonstrates just the kind of Swiss army knife of intellectual tools needed to tackle the problems and puzzles of memory and materiality. --Lindsey A. Freeman, State University of New York-Buffalo State, USA

"""This book arises from authors doing rigorous interdisciplinary work and demonstrates just the kind of Swiss army knife of intellectual tools needed to tackle the problems and puzzles of memory and materiality."" --Lindsey A. Freeman, State University of New York-Buffalo State, USA"

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László Munteán is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies and American Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His publications have focused on cultural memory in literature and the visual arts, culture, heritage, and photography. He is leader of the research group 'Memory, Materiality, and Meaning in the Age of Transnationalism'. Liedeke Plate is Associate Professor Gender Studies and Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on literature, gender and cultural memory. She is the author of Transforming Memories in Contemporary Women’s Rewriting (2011), and co-editor of, among other, Technologies of Memory in the Arts (2009), Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2013). Anneke Smelik is Katrien van Munster Professor of Visual Culture at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She has published widely in the field of fashion, cinema, popular culture and cultural memory.Her latest books are Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists (2016) and Delft Blue to Denim Blue: Contemporary Dutch Fashion (2017). 

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