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Abstract
Though still a relatively young field, memory studies has undergone significant transformations since it first coalesced as an area of inquiry. Increasingly, scholars understand memory to be a fluid, dynamic, unbound phenomenon—a process rather than a reified object. Embodying just such an elastic approach, this state-of-the-field collection systematically explores the transcultural, transgenerational, transmedial, and transdisciplinary dimensions of memory—four key dynamics that have sometimes been studied in isolation but never in such an integrated manner. Memory Unbound places leading researchers in conversation with emerging voices in the field to recast our understanding of memory’s distinctive variability.
“Memory Unbound is exemplary of the research and writing of the ‘third wave’ of memory studies. It heralds a new departure in keeping with the transforming effects of new technologies of communication, and conveys the energy and excitement attending the precipitous emergence and rapid development of this new realm of scholarship.” · Patrick Hutton, University of Vermont
“This is a great book—provocative, timely, and thoughtful. It proposes a future for memory research that finds a place for new investigators to embed their ideas.” · Joanne Garde-Hansen, University of Warwick
Stef Craps is an associate professor of English literature at Ghent University, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. He is the author of Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation (Sussex Academic Press, 2005).
Pieter Vermeulen is an assistant professor of American and comparative literature at the University of Leuven. He is the author of Contemporary Literature and the End of the Novel: Creature, Affect, Form (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Geoffrey Hartman: Romanticism after the Holocaust (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2010).
Lucy Bond is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Westminster and a founder of the London Cultural Memory Consortium. She is the author of Frames of Memory after 9/11: Culture, Criticism, Politics, and Law (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and a coeditor (with Jessica Rapson) of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory between and beyond Borders (De Gruyter, 2014).
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Illustrations | vii | ||
| Introduction: Memory on the Move | 1 | ||
| Part I — Transcultural Memory | 27 | ||
| Chapter 1 — Staging Shared Memory: Je Veux voir and L'Empreinte de l'ange | 29 | ||
| Chapter 2 — Remembering the Indonesian Killings: The Act of Killing and the Global Memory Imperative | 47 | ||
| Chapter 3 — Transnational Memory and the Construction of History through Mass Media | 65 | ||
| Part II — Transgenerational Memory | 81 | ||
| Chapter 4 — Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of the Romanian Holocaust | 83 | ||
| Chapter 5 — Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Phillips's In the Falling Snow and Black British Writing in Times of Mnemonic Transition | 109 | ||
| Chapter 6 — The Uses of Facebook for Examining Collective Memory: The Emergence of Nasser Facebook Pages in Egypt | 131 | ||
| Part III — Transmedial Memory | 149 | ||
| Chapter 7 — Connective Memory: How Facebook Takes Charge of Your Past | 151 | ||
| Chapter 8 — Embodiments of Memory: Toward an Existential Approach to the Culture of Connectivity | 173 | ||
| Chapter 9 — Metaphorical Memories of the Medieval Crusades after 9/11 | 195 | ||
| Part IV — Transdisciplinary Memory | 219 | ||
| Chapter 10 — The Agency of Memory Objects: Tracing Memories of Soweto at Regina Mundi Church | 221 | ||
| Chapter 11 — Cultural Memory Studies in the Epoch of the Anthropocene | 242 | ||
| Chapter 12 — \"Filled with Words\": Modeling the September 11 Digital Archive and the Utiity of Digital Methods in the Study of Memory | 258 | ||
| Index | 277 |