Memory Studies: Global Constellations
About the Book Series
Memory Studies as an academic field of cultural inquiry emerges at a time when global public debates, buttressed by the fragmentation of nation states and their traditional narratives, have greatly accelerated. Societies are today pregnant with newly unmediated memories, once sequestered in broad collective representations and their ideological stances. But, the ‘past in the present’ has returned with a vengeance in the early 21st Century, and with it an expansion of categories of cultural experience and meaning. This new series explores the social and cultural stakes around forgetting, useful forgetting and remembering, locally, regionally, nationally and globally. It welcomes studies of migrant memory from failed states; micro-histories battling against collective memories; the mnemonic past of emotions; the mnemonic spatiality of sites of memory; and the reconstructive ethics of memory in the face of galloping informationalization, as this renders the ‘mnemonic’ more and more public and publically accessible.
London and the Politics of Memory: In the Shadow of Big Ben
1st Edition
By Stuart Burch
March 31, 2021
This book provides an original, impassioned exploration of memory studies and the uses of the past in the present. It capitalises on London’s global appeal and Big Ben’s iconic status. Moving beyond this familiar facade the reader will journey around the hidden histories of Westminster’s streets, ...
Framing the Nation and Collective Identities: Political Rituals and Cultural Memory of the Twentieth-Century Traumas in Croatia
1st Edition
Edited
By Vjeran Pavlaković, Davor Pauković
December 18, 2020
This book analyzes top-down and bottom-up strategies of framing the nation and collective identities through commemorative practices relating to events from the Second World War and the 1990s "Homeland War" in Croatia. With attention to media representations of commemorative events and opinion poll...
Representation and Memory in Graphic Novels
1st Edition
By Golnar Nabizadeh
December 18, 2020
This book analyses the relationship between comics and cultural memory. By focussing on a range of landmark comics from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the discussion draws attention to the ongoing role of visual culture in framing testimony, particularly in relation to underprivileged ...
Memory in Transatlantic Relations: From the Cold War to the Global War on Terror
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By Kryštof Kozák, György Tóth, Paul Bauer, Allison Wanger
September 30, 2020
This volume focuses on the uses of collective memory in transatlantic relations between the United States, and Western and Central European nations in the period from the Cold War to the present day. Sitting at the intersection of international relations, history, memory studies and various "area" ...
Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Postcolonial Australian Literature
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By Ashley Barnwell, Joseph Cummins
June 30, 2020
This is the first book to examine how Australian fiction writers draw on family histories to reckon with the nation’s colonial past. Located at the intersection of literature, history, and sociology, it explores the relationships between family storytelling, memory, and postcolonial identity. With ...
Traumatic Storytelling and Memory in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Performing Signs of Injury
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By Christopher J. Colvin
June 30, 2020
This book explores the practice of traumatic storytelling that emerged out of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and came to play a key role in the lives of the members of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-era political violence. Group members found traumatic ...
Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time
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By Siobhan Kattago
December 05, 2019
Encountering the Past within the Present: Modern Experiences of Time examines different encounters with the past from within the present – whether as commemoration, nostalgia, silence, ghostly haunting or combinations thereof. Taking its cue from Hannah Arendt’s definition of the present as a time ...
Postnational Memory, Peace and War: Making Pasts Beyond Borders
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By Nigel Young
December 05, 2019
This book examines the phenomenon of modern memory as a reaction to total war, an aspiration to truth-seeking provoked by the independent forces of modern war and collective violence which is transnational, or postnational, in character. Using examples from prose and poetry, film and theatre, ...
War Memory and Commemoration
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By Brad West
September 05, 2019
In a period characterised by an unprecedented cultural engagement with the past, individuals, groups and nations are debating and experimenting with commemoration in order to find culturally relevant ways of remembering warfare, genocide and terrorism. This book examines such remembrances and the ...
Memory and Forgetting in the Post-Holocaust Era: The Ethics of Never Again
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By Alejandro Baer, Natan Sznaider
June 10, 2019
To forget after Auschwitz is considered barbaric. Baer and Sznaider question this assumption not only in regard to the Holocaust but to other political crimes as well. The duties of memory surrounding the Holocaust have spread around the globe and interacted with other narratives of victimization ...
Holocaust, War and Transnational Memory: Testimony from Yugoslav and Post-Yugoslav Literature
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By Stijn Vervaet
April 15, 2019
Until now, there has been little scholarly attention given to the ways in which Eastern European Holocaust fiction can contribute to current debates about transnational and transgenerational memory. Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav literary narratives about the Holocaust offer a particularly interesting ...
Memory and Recovery in Times of Crisis
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Edited
By Fiona Larkan, Fiona Murphy
March 21, 2019
This book presents a social scientific reading of the challenges of memory and recovery in times of crisis. Drawing on different interpretations of what constitutes ‘crisis’, this collection uses lenses of economics, identity and commemoration, to question how memory and recovery is being ...