Overview

Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic, unbound phenomenon—a process rather than a reified object. Embodying just such an elastic approach, this state-of-the-field collection systematically explores the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of memory—four key dynamics that have sometimes been studied in isolation but never in such an integrated manner. Memory Unbound places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices in the field to recast our understanding of memory’s distinctive variability.

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Author:   Lucy Bond ,  Stef Craps ,  Pieter Vermeulen
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781785338410

ISBN 10:   1785338412
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   04 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction: Memory on the Move Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter Vermeulen Chapter 1. Staging Shared Memory: Je Veux voir and L'Empreinte de l'ange Max Silverman Chapter 2. Remembering the Indonesian Killings: The Act of Killing and the Global Memory Imperative Rosanne Kennedy Chapter 3.Transnational Memory and the Construction of History through Mass Media Aleida Assmann Chapter 4. Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of the Romanian Holocaust Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer Chapter 5. Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Phillips's In the Falling Snow and Black British Writing in Times of Mnemonic Transition Astrid Erll Chapter 6. The Uses of Facebook for Examining Collective Memory: The Emergence of Nasser Facebook Pages in Egypt Joyce van de Bildt Chapter 7. Connective Memory: How Facebook Takes Charge of Your Past Jose van Dijck Chapter 8. Embodiments of Memory: Toward an Existential Approach to the Culture of Connectivity Amanda Lagerkvist Chapter 9. Metaphorical Memories of the Medieval Crusades after 9/11 Brian Johnsrud Chapter 10. The Agency of Memory Objects: Tracing Memories of Soweto at Regina Mundi Church Frauke Wiegand Chapter 11. Cultural Memory Studies in the Epoch of the Anthropocene Richard Crownshaw Chapter 12. Filled with Words : Modeling the September 11 Digital Archive and the Utility of Digital Methods in the Study of Memory Jessica K. Young Bibliography Index

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Memory Unbound is exemplary of the research and writing of the `third wave' of memory studies. It heralds a new departure in keeping with the transforming effects of new technologies of communication, and conveys the energy and excitement attending the precipitous emergence and rapid development of this new realm of scholarship. * Patrick Hutton, University of Vermont

Author Information

Lucy Bond is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Westminster and a founder of the London Cultural Memory Consortium. She is the author of Frames of Memory after 9/11: Culture, Criticism, Politics, and Law (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and a coeditor (with Jessica Rapson) of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory between and beyond Borders (De Gruyter, 2014).

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