Women Mobilizing Memory / / ed. by Ayşe Gül Altınay, María José Contreras, Alisa Solomon, Jean Howard, Banu Karaca, Marianne Hirsch.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Abiral, Bürge,; Adak, Hülya,; Ahiska, Meltem,; Altınay, Ayşe Gül,; Altınay, Gül,; Becker, Carol,; Crow, Andrea,; Der-Meguerditchian, Silvina,; Fuentes, Marcela A.,; Gervasio, Nicole,; Greene, Alyssa,; Hirsch, Marianne,; Hite, Katherine,; Howard, Jean E.,; Huyssen, Andreas,; Irzik, Sibel,; Karaca, Banu,; Kleiner, Milena Grass,; Kricorian, Nancy,; Lorenzini, María José Contreras,; Luco, María Soledad Falabella,; Ndiaye, Noémie,; Robles-Moreno, Leticia,; Solomon, Alisa,; Sturken, Marita,; Taylor, Diana,; Wexler, Laura,; Willis, Deborah,; Woodly, Deva,; Yıldız, Armanc,; Çalişkan, Dilara,; Çalışkan, Dilara,
• HerausgeberIn: Altınay, Ayşe Gül,; Contreras, María José,; Hirsch, Marianne,; Howard, Jean,; Karaca, Banu,; Solomon, Alisa,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 58 b&w illustrations

Women Mobilizing Memory, a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history, and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures. Questioning the politics of memory-making in relation to experiences of vulnerability and violence, this wide-ranging collection asks: How can memories of violence and its afterlives be mobilized for change? What strategies can disrupt and counter public forgetting? What role do the arts play in addressing the erasure of past violence from current memory and in creating new visions for future generations?Women Mobilizing Memory emerges from a multiyear feminist collaboration bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and activists from Chile, Turkey, and the United States. The essays in this book assemble and discuss a deep archive of works that activate memory across a variety of protest cultures, ranging from seemingly minor acts of defiance to broader resistance movements. The memory practices it highlights constitute acts of repair that demand justice but do not aim at restitution. They invite the creation of alternative histories that can reconfigure painful pasts and presents. Giving voice to silenced memories and reclaiming collective memories that have been misrepresented in official narratives, Women Mobilizing Memory offers an alternative to more monumental commemorative practices. It models a new direction for memory studies and testifies to a continuing hope for an alternative future.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Disrupting Sites -- CHAPTER I. Stadium Memories -- CHAPTER II. The Metamorphosis of the Museal -- CHAPTER III. Kara Walker -- CHAPTER IV. Curious Steps -- CHAPTER V. Pilgrimage As/Or Resistance -- PART TWO. Performing Protest -- CHAPTER VI. Traumatic Memes -- CHAPTER VII. Memory as Encounter -- CHAPTER VIII. Aquí -- CHAPTER IX. #NiUnaMenos (#NotOneWomanLess -- CHAPTER X. Mobilizing Academic Labor -- CHAPTER XI. "Nobody Is Going To Let You Attend Your Own Funeral" -- CHAPTER XII. Black Feminist Visions and the Politics of Healing in the Movement for Black Lives -- PART THREE. Interfering Images -- CHAPTER XIII. Instilling Interference -- CHAPTER XIV. Siting Absence -- CHAPTER XV. Carrie Mae Weems -- CHAPTER XVI. "When Everything Has Been Said Before . . ." -- CHAPTER XVII. Treasures -- CHAPTER XVIII. Blank -- PART FOUR. Staging Resistance -- PART FOUR. Staging Resistance -- CHAPTER XX. Making Memory -- CHAPTER XXI. Theater of the Mothers -- CHAPTER XXII. Who Knows Where or When? -- PART FIVE. Rewriting Lives -- CHAPTER XXIII. El Edificio de los Chilenos (The Building of the Chileans) -- CHAPTER XXIV. Remembering "Possibility" -- CHAPTER XXV. Müfide Ferit Tek's Aydemir Meets Ne􀟞ide K. Demir -- CHAPTER XXVI. Hilando en la Memoria -- Contributors -- Index