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Transcultural Memory

Author : Rick Crownshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134917792

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Memories are not static or frozen, remaining in particular sites or places, within and belonging to particular groups, cultures or nations; rather, memory travels. Broadly speaking, memory has travelled because of the demographic displacements brought about by modernity’s extremes – slavery, colonialism, ethnic cleansing and genocide – and also because of the trade, travel and migration made possible by globalisation. Whether social movement is violent, exilic, migratory, emancipatory or oppressive, it is accompanied by memory. With the movement of people, memories of modernity’s histories and postmodern legacies meet, correspond and often become mutually constitutive. Even where memories compete with each other for cultural dominance, mutual dialogue and recognition is implicit if not explicit. Memories travel through and across cultures and national boundaries, a process increasingly facilitated by mass media technologies. This collection explores a range of case studies of transcultural memory as well as theorising the mobility of memory as it travels. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal parallax.

Transcultural Memory

Author : Rick Crownshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134917723

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Transcultural Memory by Rick Crownshaw Pdf

Memories are not static or frozen, remaining in particular sites or places, within and belonging to particular groups, cultures or nations; rather, memory travels. Broadly speaking, memory has travelled because of the demographic displacements brought about by modernity’s extremes – slavery, colonialism, ethnic cleansing and genocide – and also because of the trade, travel and migration made possible by globalisation. Whether social movement is violent, exilic, migratory, emancipatory or oppressive, it is accompanied by memory. With the movement of people, memories of modernity’s histories and postmodern legacies meet, correspond and often become mutually constitutive. Even where memories compete with each other for cultural dominance, mutual dialogue and recognition is implicit if not explicit. Memories travel through and across cultures and national boundaries, a process increasingly facilitated by mass media technologies. This collection explores a range of case studies of transcultural memory as well as theorising the mobility of memory as it travels. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal parallax.

Remediating Transcultural Memory

Author : Dagmar Brunow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110436372

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The impact of digital global media, geopolitical changes and migration demands new theorizations within memory studies. Despite the growing field of media memory studies, the impact from film and media studies has been scarce within memory studies. This unique study offers new theorizations of three crucial concepts for media memory studies: remediation, transculturality and the archive. This book takes a closer look at the media specificity of archival footage and how it is adapted, translated and appropriated. In its original approach this work reflects upon the role of documentary film images for the construction of memory. By merging film and media studies with memory studies the work offers multiple theoretical and methodological approaches for everyone interested in the heritage of audiovisual media: film and media scholars, memory scholars, historians, art historians, social scientists, librarians or archivists, curators and festival programmers alike.

Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels

Author : Nadia Butt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110367355

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Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels by Nadia Butt Pdf

This book places transcultural memory in the South Asian cultural and literary context. Divided into two parts, the book first defines transcultural memory in the age of globalised modernity both as a theory and social practice. Then it examines contemporary Indo-English novels from India and Pakistan with the theoretical and methodological tool of transcultural memory to shed new light on the connection between memory and modernity, and memory and South Asian cultures in the wake of new social and political transformations on the Indian subcontinent. A special focus on commemorative tropes in the novels not only show the possibility of a dialogue with different versions of the past, but also how such a dialogue shapes processes of remembrance between and beyond borders. Hence, the books comes up with alternative ways of reading the Indo-English novels, divesting the concept of (trans)cultural memory from its Euro- centrism and claiming it as equally significant in comprehending the new configurations of memory and modernity in non-Western locations.

Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature

Author : Jessica Ortner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640140226

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Transcultural Memory and European Identity in Contemporary German-Jewish Migrant Literature by Jessica Ortner Pdf

Examines how German-Jewish writers from Eastern Europe who migrated to Germany during or after the Cold War have widened European cultural memory to include the traumas of the Gulag.

The Transcultural Turn

Author : Lucy Bond,Jessica Rapson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110337617

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The Transcultural Turn by Lucy Bond,Jessica Rapson Pdf

This edited collection makes a progressive intervention into the interdisciplinary field of memory studies with a series of essays drawn from diverse theoretical, practitional and cultural backgrounds. The most seminal critical development within memory studies in recent years has arguably been the turn towards transculturalism. This movement engenders a series of methodologies that posit remembrance as a fluid process in which commemorative tropes work to inform the representation of diverse events and traumas beyond national or cultural boundaries, transcending – but not negating– spatial, temporal and ideational differences. Examining a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the essays in this collection focus on the dialogues that shape processes of remembrance between and beyond borders, critiquing the problems and possibilities inherent in current discourses in memorial practice and theory as they approach the challenge of transculturalism.

Remediating Transcultural Memory

Author : Dagmar Brunow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110434521

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Remediating Transcultural Memory by Dagmar Brunow Pdf

The impact of digital global media, geopolitical changes and migration demands new theorizations within memory studies. Despite the growing field of media memory studies, the impact from film and media studies has been scarce within memory studies. This unique study offers new theorizations of three crucial concepts for media memory studies: remediation, transculturality and the archive. This book takes a closer look at the media specificity of archival footage and how it is adapted, translated and appropriated. In its original approach this work reflects upon the role of documentary film images for the construction of memory. By merging film and media studies with memory studies the work offers multiple theoretical and methodological approaches for everyone interested in the heritage of audiovisual media: film and media scholars, memory scholars, historians, art historians, social scientists, librarians or archivists, curators and festival programmers alike.

Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels

Author : Nadia Butt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110387117

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Transcultural Memory and Globalised Modernity in Contemporary Indo-English Novels by Nadia Butt Pdf

This book places transcultural memory in the South Asian cultural and literary context. Divided into two parts, the book first defines transcultural memory in the age of globalised modernity both as a theory and social practice. Then it examines contemporary Indo-English novels from India and Pakistan with the theoretical and methodological tool of transcultural memory to shed new light on the connection between memory and modernity, and memory and South Asian cultures in the wake of new social and political transformations on the Indian subcontinent. A special focus on commemorative tropes in the novels not only show the possibility of a dialogue with different versions of the past, but also how such a dialogue shapes processes of remembrance between and beyond borders. Hence, the books comes up with alternative ways of reading the Indo-English novels, divesting the concept of (trans)cultural memory from its Euro- centrism and claiming it as equally significant in comprehending the new configurations of memory and modernity in non-Western locations.

Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature

Author : Yvonne Liebermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783111067780

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Memory and Latency in Contemporary Anglophone Literature by Yvonne Liebermann Pdf

Up until fairly recently, memory used to be mainly considered within the frames of the nation and related mechanisms of group identity. Building on mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion, this form of memory focused on the event as a central category of meaning making. Taking its cue from a number of Anglophone novels, this book examines the indeterminate traces of memories in literary texts that are not overtly concerned with memory but still latently informed by the past. More concretely, it analyzes novels that do not directly address memories and do not focus on the event as a central meaning making category. Relegating memory to the realm of the latent, that is the not-directly-graspable dimensions of a text, the novels that this book analyses withdraw from overt memory discourses and create new ways of re-membering that refigure the temporal tripartite of past, present and future and negotiate what is ‘memorable’ in the first place. Combining the analysis of the novels’ overall structure with close readings of selected passages, this book links latency as a mode of memory with the productive agency of formal literary devices that work both on the micro and macro level, activating readers to challenge their learned ways of reading for memory.

The Twentieth Century in European Memory

Author : Tea Sindbæk Andersen,Barbara Törnquist Plewa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Collective memory
ISBN : 9004352341

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The Twentieth Century in European Memory by Tea Sindbæk Andersen,Barbara Törnquist Plewa Pdf

The Twentieth Century in European Memory investigates contested and divisive memories. Focusing on questions of transculturality and reception, the book looks at ways in which such memories are being shared, debated and received by museums, artists, politicians and general audiences

Transcultural English Studies

Author : Frank Schulze-Engler,Sissy Helff
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789042025639

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Transcultural English Studies by Frank Schulze-Engler,Sissy Helff Pdf

What is most strikingly new about the transcultural is its sudden ubiquity. Following in the wake of previous concepts in cultural and literary studies such as creolization, hybridity, and syncretism, and signalling a family relationship to terms such as transnationality, translocality, and transmigration, 'transcultural' terminology has unobtrusively but powerfully edged its way into contemporary theoretical and critical discourse. The four sections of this volume denote major areas where 'transcultural' questions and problematics have come to the fore: theories of culture and literature that have sought to account for the complexity of culture in a world increasingly characterized by globalization, transnationalization, and interdependence; realities of individual and collective life-worlds shaped by the ubiquity of phenomena and experiences relating to transnational connections and the blurring of cultural boundaries; fictions in literature and other media that explore these realities, negotiate the fuzzy edges of 'ethnic' or 'national' cultures, and participate in the creation of transnational public spheres as well as transcultural imaginations and memories; and, finally, pedagogy and didactics, where earlier models of teaching 'other' cultures are faced with the challenge of coming to terms with cultural complexity both in what is being taught and in the people it is taught to, and where 'target cultures' have become elusive. The idea of 'locating' culture and literature exclusively in the context of ethnicities or nations is rapidly losing plausibility throughout an 'English-speaking world' that has long since been multi- rather than monolingual. Exploring the prospects and contours of 'Transcultural English Studies' thus reflects a set of common challenges and predicaments that in recent years have increasingly moved centre stage not only in the New Literatures in English, but also in British and American studies.

Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement

Author : Sabine Marschall
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030413293

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Public Memory in the Context of Transnational Migration and Displacement by Sabine Marschall Pdf

This book explores the border-transcending dimensions of public remembering by focussing on the triangular relationship between memory, monuments and migration. Framed by an introduction and conclusion, nine case studies located in diverse social and geo-political settings feature topical debates and contestation around monuments, statues and memorials erected by migrants or in memory of migrants, refugees and diasporas in host country societies. Written from different disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, art history, cultural studies and political science, the chapters consider displaced people as new, originally unintended audiences who bring transnational and transcultural perspectives to old monuments in host cities. In addition, migrants and diasporic communities are explored as ‘agents of memory’, who produce collective memory in tense environments of intra- and inter-group negotiation or outright hostility at the national and transnational level. The research is conceptually anchored in memory studies, notably transnational memory, multidirectional memory and other concepts emerging from memory studies’ recent ‘transcultural turn’.

The Transcultural Turn

Author : Lucy Bond,Jessica Rapson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9783110370751

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The Transcultural Turn by Lucy Bond,Jessica Rapson Pdf

This edited collection makes a progressive intervention into the interdisciplinary field of memory studies with a series of essays drawn from diverse theoretical, practitional and cultural backgrounds. The most seminal critical development within memory studies in recent years has arguably been the turn towards transculturalism. This movement engenders a series of methodologies that posit remembrance as a fluid process in which commemorative tropes work to inform the representation of diverse events and traumas beyond national or cultural boundaries, transcending – but not negating– spatial, temporal and ideational differences. Examining a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the essays in this collection focus on the dialogues that shape processes of remembrance between and beyond borders, critiquing the problems and possibilities inherent in current discourses in memorial practice and theory as they approach the challenge of transculturalism.

Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures

Author : Stefan Helgesson,Birgit Neumann,Gabriele Rippl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110580945

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Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures by Stefan Helgesson,Birgit Neumann,Gabriele Rippl Pdf

The Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures is the first globally comprehensive attempt to chart the rich field of world literatures in English. Part I navigates different usages of the term ‘world literature’ from an historical point of view. Part II discusses a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to world literature. This is also where the handbook’s conceptualisation of ‘Anglophone world literatures’ – in the plural – is developed and interrogated in juxtaposition with proximate fields of inquiry such as postcolonialism, translation studies, memory studies and environmental humanities. Part III charts sociological approaches to Anglophone world literatures, considering their commodification, distribution, translation and canonisation on the international book market. Part IV, finally, is dedicated to the geographies of Anglophone world literatures and provides sample interpretations of literary texts written in English.

Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature

Author : Madeleine Scherer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110675153

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Memories of the Classical Underworld in Irish and Caribbean Literature by Madeleine Scherer Pdf

Classical Memories is an intervention into the field of adaptation studies, taking the example of classical reception to show that adaptation is a process that can be driven by and produce intertextual memories. I see ‘classical memories’ as a memory-driven type of adaptation that draws on and reproduces schematic and otherwise de-contextualised conceptions of antiquity and its cultural ‘exports’ in, broadly speaking, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These memory-driven adaptations differ, often in significant ways, from more traditional adaptations that seek to either continue or deconstruct a long-running tradition that can be traced back to antiquity as well as its canonical points of reception in later ages. When investigating such a popular and widespread set of narratives, characters, and images like those that remain of Graeco-Roman antiquity, terms like ‘adaptation’ and ‘reception’ could and should be nuanced further to allow us to understand the complex interactions between modern works and classical antiquity in more detail, particularly when it pertains to postcolonial or post-digital classical reception. In Classical Memories, I propose that understanding certain types of adaptations as intertextual memories allows us to do just that.