Mapping Memory : : Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas / / Kaitlin M. Murphy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Murphy, Kaitlin M.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.) :; 13
• Other title: Frontmatter --; contents --; Introduction --; chapter 1. Affect, Haunting, and Memory Mapping --; chapter 2. The Materiality of Memory: Touching, Seeing, and Feeling the Past --; chapter 3. Performing Archives, Performing Ruins --; chapter 4. The Politics of Seeing: Affect, Forensics, and Visuality in the US- Mexico Borderlands --; Conclusion --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823282562; 9783110722734
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823282562?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kaitlin M. Murphy.

In Mapping Memory, Kaitlin M. Murphy investigates the use of memory as a means of contemporary sociopolitical intervention. Mapping Memory focuses specifically on visual case studies, including documentary film, photography, performance, new media, and physical places of memory, from sites ranging from the Southern Cone to Central America and the U.S.-Mexican borderlands. Murphy develops new frameworks for analyzing how visual culture performs as an embodied agent of memory and witnessing, arguing that visuality is inherently performative. By analyzing the performative elements, or strategies, of visual texts-such as embodiment, reenactment, haunting, and the performance of material objects and places Murphy elucidates how memory is both anchored in and extracted from specific bodies, objects, and places. Drawing together diverse theoretical strands, Murphy originates the theory of "memory mapping", which tends to the ways in which memory is strategically deployed in order to challenge official narratives that often neglect or designate as transgressive certain memories or experiences. Ultimately, Murphy argues, memory mapping is a visual strategy to ask, and to challenge, why certain lives are rendered visible and thus grievable and others not.