The Future of Memory /

The Future of Memory / / ed. by Richard Crownshaw, Jane Kilby, Antony Rowland.

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Memory studies has become a rapidly growing area of scholarly as well as public interest. This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in this new academic field. It embraces work on diverse but interconnected phenomena, such as twenty-first century museums, shock...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bagnall, Gaynor,
Boswell, Matthew,
Caruth, Cathy,
Eaglestone, Robert,
Guyer, Sara,
Hamilton, Carrie,
Kilby, Jane,
Luckhurst, Roger,
Rosenberg, Sharon,
Rowland, Antony,
Stone, Dan,
Suleiman, Susan Rubin,
Vice, Sue,
Whitehead, Anne,
Young, James E.,
wns, Rick,
HerausgeberIn:
Crownshaw, Richard,
Kilby, Jane,
Rowland, Antony,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • I. THE FUTURE OF MEMORY
  • The Future of Memory: Introduction
  • 1 Beyond the Mnemosyne Institute: The Future of Memory after the Age of Commemoration
  • 2 Rwanda’s Bones
  • 3 The Imperial War Museum North: A Twenty-First Century Museum?
  • 4 Memory and the Monument after 9/11
  • 5 The Edge of Memory: Literary Innovation and Childhood Trauma
  • II. THE FUTURE OF TESTIMONY
  • The Future of Testimony: Introduction
  • 6 Reading Perpetrator Testimony
  • 7 Reading beyond the False Memory Syndrome Debates
  • 8 False Testimony
  • 9 Reading Holocaust Poetry: Genre, Authority and Identification
  • III. THE FUTURE OF TRAUMA
  • The Future of Trauma: Introduction
  • 10 The Trauma Knot
  • 11 Trauma, Justice, and the Political Unconscious: Arendt and Felman’s Journey to Jerusalem
  • 12 Trauma and Resistance in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers
  • 13 Facing Losses/Losing Guarantees: A Meditation on Openings to Traumatic Ignorance as a Constitutive Demand
  • 14 Activist Memories: The Politics of Trauma and the Pleasures of Politics
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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