Cultural Memories Of Origin

Author : Frank Wilker
Publisher : Universitatsverlag Winter
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : African diaspora in literature
ISBN : 3825361926

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Cultural Memories of Origin by Frank Wilker Pdf

'Cultural Memories of Origin' focuses on how the second maritime leg of the African slave trade - commonly referred to as the Middle Passage - is represented in select literary and artistic works of African American culture. The book analyses several discursive, aesthetic and political shifts in the memory production about the transatlantic slave trade and discusses their ramifications for the construction of black identity in the U.S. Given the deracinating nature that the middle passage experience had on African subjects, as well as the representational difficulties in portraying this rupture, the book's analytical framework incorporates theories of trauma. By addressing the productive contrast and the methodological differences that exist in between what is in general deemed "historical scholarship" on the one hand and "cultural memory" on the other, the book contributes to the ongoing discussion about the possibility of an involuntary inheritability of traumatic events.

Author : Nicolas Pethes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781527535619

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Cultural Memory Studies by Nicolas Pethes Pdf

This volume provides an overview of theories of cultural memory that are intensively discussed in cultural studies and humanities disciplines such as history, sociology, literary studies, art history, and media studies. Cultural memory encompasses all rituals, institutions and practices through which communities establish their identity and common origin, which are challenged by the digital turn today. The book presents, on the one hand, basic arguments by the most important memory theorists of the 20th and 21st centuries and, on the other, exemplary descriptions of the most significant forms of cultural memory.

Author : Peter Meusburger,Michael Heffernan,Edgar Wunder
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048189458

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Cultural Memories by Peter Meusburger,Michael Heffernan,Edgar Wunder Pdf

The revival of interest in collective cultural memories since the 1980s has been a genuinely global phenomenon. Cultural memories can be defined as the social constructions of the past that allow individuals and groups to orient themselves in time and space. The investigation of cultural memories has necessitated an interdisciplinary perspective, though geographical questions about the spaces, places, and landscapes of memory have acquired a special significance. The essays in this volume, written by leading anthropologists, geographers, historians, and psychologists, open a range of new interpretations of the formation and development of cultural memories from ancient times to the present day. The volume is divided into five interconnected sections. The first section outlines the theoretical considerations that have shaped recent debates about cultural memory. The second section provides detailed case studies of three key themes: the founding myths of the nation-state, the contestation of national collective memories during periods of civil war, and the oral traditions that move beyond national narrative. The third section examines the role of World War II as a pivotal episode in an emerging European cultural memory. The fourth section focuses on cultural memories in postcolonial contexts beyond Europe. The fifth and final section extends the study of cultural memory back into premodern tribal and nomadic societies.

Author : Martin T. Dinter,Charles Guérin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009327794

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Cultural Memory in Republican and Augustan Rome by Martin T. Dinter,Charles Guérin Pdf

Cultural memory is a framework which elucidates the relationship between the past and the present: essentially, why, how, and with what results certain pieces of information are remembered. This volume brings together distinguished classicists from a variety of sub-disciplines to explore cultural memory in the Roman Republic and the Age of Augustus. It provides an excellent and accessible starting point for readers who are new to the intersection between cultural memory theory and ancient Rome, whilst also appealing to the seasoned scholar. The chapters delve deep into memory theory, going beyond the canonical texts of Jan Assmann and Pierre Nora and pushing their terminology towards Basu's dispositifs, Roller's intersignifications, Langlands' sites of exemplarity, and Erll's horizons. This innovative framework enables a fresh analysis of both fragmentary texts and archaeological phenomena not discussed elsewhere.

Author : Leith Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781316510810

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Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland by Leith Davis Pdf

The first book to analyze the interplay of cultural memory, politics and the changing media ecology of early eighteenth-century Britain.

Author : Jeannette Marie Mageo
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824841874

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Cultural Memory by Jeannette Marie Mageo Pdf

How do foreign schemas and objects enter into indigenous ways of understanding the world? How are the cultural self and the cultural other constructed in acts of remembering? What is memory's role in the generation or degeneration of cultural meanings? In contemporary Pacific societies these questions are not merely the subject of scholarly debate but speak to pressing life concerns. This volume offers fruitful responses to such questions, providing insights into colonial memory and its limitations and proposing explanations that illumine cultural memory processes. These processes, in turn, elucidate ways of authoring cultural history and shed light on cultural identity, which, like other forms of identity, is built from a remembered self. Contributors explore valorizations of certain aspects of the remembered past, amnesias about other aspects. Both are part of the rhetoric of colonizing cultures and of cultural identity and nationhood in many contemporary Pacific societies. The provocative analyses and responses offered here are both academic and personal: close engagement with individuals and their ways of life is evident. These are at once intellectual journeys through the colonial landscapes of Pacific memory and attempts to understand the problems of politics and personhood, cultural identity and meaning, for real people in real places. Cultural Memory confronts many of the most central anthropological issues of our time.

Author : Erica L. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030020989

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Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing by Erica L. Johnson Pdf

Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art. The book first shows how affect theorists have increasingly complemented more traditional archival research through the use of “academic memoir.” This theoretical piece is then applied to memoir works by Caribbean writers Dionne Brand and Patrick Chamoiseau, and the final case study in the book interprets as memorial art Kara Walker’s ephemeral 80,000 pound sugar sculpture of 2014. Memory as method; memory as archive; memorial as affect: this book looks at the interplay between archival sources on the one hand, and the affective memories, both personal and collective, that flow from, around, and into the constantly shifting record of the past.

Author : Jeannette Marie Mageo
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824823869

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Cultural Memory by Jeannette Marie Mageo Pdf

How do foreign schemas and objects enter into indigenous ways of understanding the world? How are the cultural self and the cultural other constructed in acts of remembering? What is memory's role in the generation or degeneration of cultural meanings? This volume offers fruitful responses to such questions, providing insights into colonial memory and its limitations and proposing explanations that illumine cultural memory processes.

Author : Veysel Apaydin i
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787354845

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Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage by Veysel Apaydin i Pdf

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural heritage where groups and communities ascribe values, develop memories, and shape their collective identity.

Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3823341758

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Literature, Literary History, and Cultural Memory by Herbert Grabes Pdf

Author : Astrid Erll,Ansgar Nünning
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110207262

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Cultural Memory Studies by Astrid Erll,Ansgar Nünning Pdf

This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of “cultural memory studies” for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The handbook not only documents current research in an unprecedented way; it also serves as a forum for bringing together approaches from areas as varied as sociology, political sciences, history, theology, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, psychology, and neurosciences. “Cultural memory studies” – as defined in this handbook – came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, with the works of Maurice Halbwachs on mémoire collective. In the course of the last two decades this area of research has witnessed a veritable boom in various countries and disciplines. As a consequence, the study of the relation of “culture” and “memory” has diversified into a wide range of approaches. This handbook is based on a broad understanding of “cultural memory” as the interplay of present and past in sociocultural contexts. It presents concepts for the study of individual remembering in a social context, group and family memory, national memory, the various media of memory, and finally the host of emerging transnational lieux de mémoire such as 9/11.

Author : John Corrigan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226827643

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The Feeling of Forgetting by John Corrigan Pdf

A provocative examination of how religious practices of forgetting drive white Christian nationalism. The dual traumas of colonialism and slavery are still felt by Native Americans and African Americans as victims of ongoing violence toward people of color today. In The Feeling of Forgetting, John Corrigan calls attention to the trauma experienced by white Americans as perpetrators of this violence. By tracing memory’s role in American Christianity, Corrigan shows how contemporary white Christian nationalism is motivated by a widespread effort to forget the role race plays in American society. White trauma, Corrigan argues, courses through American culture like an underground river that sometimes bursts forth into brutality, terrorism, and insurrection. Tracing the river to its source is a necessary first step toward healing.

Author : Paola Spinozzi,Alessandro Zironi
Publisher : V&R unipress GmbH
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Humanities
ISBN : 9783899717594

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Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities by Paola Spinozzi,Alessandro Zironi Pdf

In this volume, the assumption that origins can be defined as a hermeneutic paradigm in the humanities and in the sciences is explored in relation to specific theoretical frameworks and research methodologies. By investigating how origins have been conceptualised in different domains of knowledge - biology, primatology, psychology, linguistics, history of science, critical theory, classical studies, philology, literary criticism, strategy and accounting - a double movement has been generated: towards the very core of each discipline and beyond disciplinary boundaries. Which are the most productive theories and methods each discipline has elaborated for investigating origins? Can they become trans-disciplinary? Which synergic enquiries can be devised in order to expand and share knowledge? Explaining how and why various disciplines have responded to such questions involves delving into their histories and cultural ideologies in order to verify whether the topic of origins can function as a powerful connector between scientific and humanistic territories.

Author : Matthias Smalbrugge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781501358883

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On Images, Visual Culture, Memory and the Play without a Script by Matthias Smalbrugge Pdf

Matthias Smalbrugge compares modern images to plays without a script: while they appear to refer to a deeper identity or reality, it is ultimately the image itself that truly matters. He argues that our modern society of images is the product of a destructive tendency in the Christian notion of the image in general, and Augustine of Hippo's in particular. This insight enables him to decode our current 'scripts' of image. As we live in an increasingly visual culture, we are constantly confronted with images that seem to exist without a deeper identity or reality – but did this referential character really get lost over time? Smalbrugge first explores the roots of the modern image by analysing imagery, what it represents, and its moral state within the framework of Platonic philosophy. He then moves to the Augustinian heritage, in particular the Soliloquies, the Confessions and the Trinity, where he finds valuable insights into images and memory. He explores within the trinitarian framework the crossroads of a theology of grace and a theology based on Neoplatonic views. Smalbrugge ultimately answers two questions: what happened to the referential character of the image, and can it be recovered?

Author : Angelos Koutsourakis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781474409117

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Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos by Angelos Koutsourakis Pdf

Bringing together established and emerging scholars from multiple disciplines, the collection's unique contribution is to show how Angelopoulos created singularly intricate forms whose aesthetic contours invite us to think critically about modern history.