Cultural Memory Memorials And Reparative Writing

Author : Erica L. Johnson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030020989

Get Book

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 : Grzegorz Nycz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110752014

Get Book

Memory Politics in the Shadow of the New Cold War by Grzegorz Nycz Pdf

This book addresses memory politics and their evolution as an academic discipline, including memory studies. It explores national and international debates about conflicting interpretations of the recent past, including WWII remembering, the annexation of Ukraine, the reformed history teaching in Putin’s Russia, Historikerstreit and the holocaust in Germany, and the legacy and role of nuclear weapons in international relations in the USA in the context of the so called New Cold War.

Author : Odile Ferly,Tegan Zimmerman
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031321115

Get Book

Chronotropics by Odile Ferly,Tegan Zimmerman Pdf

This book deconstructs androcentric approaches to spacetime inherited from western modernity through its theoretical frame of the chronotropics. It sheds light on the literary acts of archival disruption, radical remapping, and epistemic marronnage by twenty-first-century Caribbean women writers to restore a connection to spacetime, expanding it within and beyond the region. Arguing that the chronotropics points to a vocation for social justice and collective healing, this pan-Caribbean volume returns to autochthonous ontologies and epistemologies to propose a poetics and politics of the chronotropics that is anticolonial, gender inclusive, pluralistic, and non-anthropocentric. This is an open access book.

Author : Pramod K Nayar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789811661129

Get Book

Alzheimer's Disease Memoirs by Pramod K Nayar Pdf

This book examines writings by people living with Alzheimer's Disease and their caregivers. Its focus areas include the construction of the self in the face of diminishing linguistic and cognitive abilities, the stigmatization of ageing, the various narrative strategies that these texts (often collaborative) employ, the health activism and advocacy generated via a 'biosociality,' and the ethics of care. It examines the 'disease writing' genre about a condition that ravages the ability to use language. It serves as a "literary" examination of the work done in this area through a critical reading of the memoirs of those with AD and caregivers and a healthy dose of literary theory. The book is a valuable resource for those interested in literary and critical theory and researchers in the field of ageing/dementia studies.

Author : Elaine Savory,Erica L. Johnson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030282233

Get Book

Wide Sargasso Sea at 50 by Elaine Savory,Erica L. Johnson Pdf

This book revisits Jean Rhys’s ground-breaking 1966 novel to explore its cultural and artistic influence in the areas of not only literature and literary criticism, but fashion design, visual art, and the theatre as well. Building on symposia that were held in London and New York in 2016 in honour of the novel’s half-century, this collection demonstrates just how timely Rhys’s insights into colonial history, sexual relations, and aesthetics continue to be. The chapters include an extensive interview with novelist Caryl Phillips, who in 2018 published a novel about Rhys’s life, an account of how Wide Sargasso Sea can be read through the lens of the #MeToo Movement, a clothing line inspired by the novel, and new critical directions. As both a celebration and scholarly evaluation, the collection shows how enduring Rhys’s novel is in its continuing literary influence and social commentary.

Author : Miranda Corcoran,Steve Gronert Ellerhoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429560354

Get Book

Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction by Miranda Corcoran,Steve Gronert Ellerhoff Pdf

Detailing the adventures of a supernatural clan of vampires, witches, and assorted monstrosities, Ray Bradbury’s Elliott family stories are a unique component of his extensive literary output. Written between 1946 and 1994, Bradbury eventually quilted the stories together into a novel, From the Dust Returned (2001), making it a creative project that spanned his adult life. Not only do the stories focus on a single familial unit, engaging with overlapping twentieth-century themes of family, identity and belonging, they were also unique in their time, interrogating post-war American ideologies of domestic unity while reinventing and softening gothic horror for the Baby Boomer generation. Centred around diverse interpretations of the Elliott Family stories, this collection of critical essays recovers the Elliotts for academic purposes by exploring how they form a collective gothic mythos while ranging across distinct themes. Essays included discuss the diverse ways in which the Elliott stories pose questions about difference and Otherness in America; engage with issues of gender, sexuality, and adolescence; and interrogate complex discourses surrounding history, identity, community, and the fantasy of family.

Author : Juilee Decker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000895940

Get Book

Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials by Juilee Decker Pdf

Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials examines how the modification, destruction, or absence of monuments and memorials can be viewed as performative acts that challenge prescribed, embodied narratives in the public realm. Bringing together international, multidisciplinary approaches, the chapters in this volume interrogate the ways in which memorial constructions disclose implicitly and explicitly the proxy battle for public memory and identity, particularly since 2015. Acknowledging the ways in which the past — which is given agency through monuments and memorials — intrudes into daily life, this volume offers perspectives from researchers that answer questions about the roles of monuments and memorials as persistent, yet mutable, works whose meanings are not fixed but are, rather, subject to processes of continual re-interpretation. By using monuments and memorials as lenses through which to view race, memory, and the legacies of war, power, and subjugation, this volume demonstrates how these works, and their visible representations of entitlement, possession, control, and authority, can offer the opportunity to pose and answer questions about whose memory matters and what our symbols say about who we are and what we value. Fallen Monuments and Contested Memorials is essential reading for scholars and students studying cultural heritage, history, art history, and public history. It will be particularly useful to those with an interest in public monuments and memorials; colonial and post-colonial history; memory studies; and nationalism, race, and ethnic studies.

Author : Nana Osei-Kofi,Bradley Boovy,Kali Furman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000351514

Get Book

Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education by Nana Osei-Kofi,Bradley Boovy,Kali Furman Pdf

Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education is a book for anyone with an interest in teaching and learning in higher education from a social justice perspective and with a commitment to teaching all students. This text offers a breadth of disciplinary perspectives on how to center difference, power, and systemic oppression in pedagogical practice, arguing that these elements are essential to knowledge formation and to teaching. Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education is structured as an ongoing conversation among educators who believe that teaching from a social justice perspective is about much more than the type of readings and assignments found on course syllabi. Drawing on the broadest possible definition of curriculum transformation, the volume demonstrates that social justice education is about both educators’ social locations and about course content. It is also about knowing students and teaching beyond the traditional classroom to meaningfully include local communities, social movements, archives, and colleagues in student and academic affairs. Premised on the notion that continuous learning and growth is critical to educators with deep commitments to fostering critical consciousness through their teaching, Transformative Approaches to Social Justice Education offers interdisciplinary and innovative collaborative approaches to curriculum transformation that build on and extend existing scholarship on social justice education. Newly committed and established social justice pedagogues share their experiences taking up the many difficult questions pertaining to what it means for all of us to participate in shaping a more just, shared future.

Author : Russell J.A. Kilbourn,Eleanor Ty
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554589166

Get Book

The Memory Effect by Russell J.A. Kilbourn,Eleanor Ty Pdf

The Memory Effect is a collection of essays on the status of memory—individual and collective, cultural and transcultural—in contemporary literature, film, and other visual media. Contributors look at memory’s representation, adaptation, translation, and appropriation, as well as its mediation and remediation. Memory’s irreducibly constructed nature is explored, even as its status is reaffirmed as the basis of both individual and collective identity. The book begins with an overview of the field, with an emphasis on the question of subjectivity. Under the section title Memory Studies: Theories, Changes, and Challenges, these chapters lay the theoretical groundwork for the volume. Section 2, Literature and the Power of Cultural Memory/Memorializing, focuses on the relation between literature and cultural memory. Section 3, Recuperating Lives: Memory and Life Writing, shifts the focus from literature to autobiography and life writing, especially those lives shaped by trauma and forgotten by history. Section 4, Cinematic Remediations: Memory and History, examines specific films in an effort to account for cinema’s intimate and mutually constitutive relationship with memory and history. The final section, Multi-Media Interventions: Television, Video, and Collective Memory, considers individual and collective memory in the context of contemporary visual texts, at the crossroads of popular and avant-garde cultures.

Author : Nicolas Pethes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527533115

Get Book

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 : Ansgar Nünning,Marion Gymnich,Roy Sommer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Collective memory and literature
ISBN : UOM:39015066829063

Get Book

Literature and Memory by Ansgar Nünning,Marion Gymnich,Roy Sommer Pdf

Author : Janine Rider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106017320554

Get Book

The Writer's Book of Memory by Janine Rider Pdf

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Hywel Rowland Dix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Autobiographical fiction
ISBN : 1032322268

Get Book

Autofiction and Cultural Memory by Hywel Rowland Dix Pdf

"Autofiction and Cultural Memory breaks new ground in autofiction research by showing how it gives postcolonial writers a means of bearing witness to past cultural or political struggles, and hence of contributing to new forms of cultural memory. Most discussion of autofiction has treated it as an individualistic form, dealing with the personal growth of its authors. In doing so, it privileges narratives of private development over those of social commitment and accords with Western concepts of ownership and authorship. By contrast, Hywel Dix shows how a variety of writers outside the Western world have used the techniques of autofiction in a different way, placing themselves on the side lines of their own stories to show solidarity with struggles against imperialism and tyranny. Drawing on examples from Algeria, Ethiopia, the Caribbean, the Americas, India and Turkey, Dix presents autofiction as a form which combines the life stories of authors with the collective struggles of their societies to restore to view historical injustices that have been marginalised and forgotten. By contributing to new forms of cultural memory, autofiction raises important questions about what we choose to remember and what we value in the present. This book will be of interest to anyone working in postcolonial studies, world literature, trauma studies, autobiography, life writing or social justice"--

Author : Dalia Kandiyoti,Rina Benmayor
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781800738256

Get Book

Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants by Dalia Kandiyoti,Rina Benmayor Pdf

In 2015, both Portugal and Spain passed laws enabling descendants of Sephardi Jews to obtain citizenship, an historic offer of reconciliation for Jews who were forced to undergo conversions or expelled from Iberia nearly half a millennia ago. Drawing on the memory of the expulsion from Sepharad, the scholarly and personal essays in Reparative Citizenship for Sephardi Descendants analyze the impact of reconciliation laws on descendants and contemporary forms of citizenship.

Author : Astrid Erll,Ann Rigney
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110283964

Get Book

Mediation, Remediation, and the Dynamics of Cultural Memory by Astrid Erll,Ann Rigney Pdf

This collection links the use of media to the larger socio-cultural processes involved in collective memory-making. The focus in particular is on mediation and remediation as two fundamental aspects of media use, and on the dynamics between them.Key questions are: What role do media play in the production and circulation of cultural memories? How do mediation, remediation and intermediality shape objects and acts of cultural remembrance? How can new, emergent media redefine or transform what is collectively remembered? This book first appeared as a hardback volume in the De Gruyter series Media and Cultural Memory Studies. With the present book the original articles are reissued in an affordable paperback edition for graduate students and scholars in the field of Media and Memory Studies."