Memory and Migration / / Julia Creet, Andreas Kitzmann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• HerausgeberIn: Creet, Julia,; Kitzmann, Andreas,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, and war on individual and collective memory. The ways in which memory affects cultural representation and historical understanding across generations is examined through case studies and theoretical approaches that underscore its mutability.Memory and Migration is a truly interdisciplinary book featuring the work of leading scholars from a variety of fields across the globe. The essays are collaborative, successfully responding to the central theme and expanding upon the findings of individual authors. A groundbreaking contribution to an emerging field of study, Memory and Migration provides valuable insight into the connections between memory, place, and displacement.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Migration of Memory and Memories of Migration -- 1. Emigratory Experience: The Melancholy of No Return -- 2. Memory for breakfast -- 3. Remigration and Lost Time: Resuming Life after the Holocaust -- 4. The Waiting Zone -- 5. Frames of Memory: WWII German Expellees in Canada -- 6. The Cultural Trauma Process, or the Ethics and Mobility of Memory -- 7. Locked in a Memory Ghetto: A Case Study of a Kurdish Community in France -- 8. Home in Exile: Politics of Refugeehood in the Canadian Muslim Diaspora -- 9. The flower Girl: A Case Study in Sense Memory -- 10. Reading Sensation: Memory and Movement in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After -- 11. Memory, Diaspora, Hysteria: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace -- 12. Value of Memory - Memory of value: A Mnemonic Interpretation of Socrates' Ethical Intellectualism -- 13. Migratory Subjects: Memory Work in Krzysztof Wodiczko's Projections and Instruments -- 14. The veiled Room -- 15. The Archive as Temporary Abode -- Bibliography -- Index