The Future of Memory

Published by Berghahn Books 2010

The Future of Memory

Edited by: Richard Crownshaw , Jane Kilby and Antony Rowland

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781845458478

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About this book

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, shocking memorials in present-day Rwanda and the firsthand testimony of the victims of genocidal conflicts. The collection engages with pressing ‘real world’ issues, such as the furor around the recent 9/11 memorial, and what we really mean when we talk about ‘trauma’.

Author / Editor information

Richard Crownshaw is a Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Jane Kilby is Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Salford.

Antony Rowland is Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Salford.

Richard Crownshaw is a Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Reviews

“This volume of fourteen chapters provides a solid overview of important trends in the expanding field of memory studies. The chapters are wide-ranging in focus, as befits their authors’ diverse academic disciplines.” · Journal of Interdisciplinary History

“This is an innovative, well structured and balanced collection of essays which presents a survey of theories and case studies underpinning the burgeoning field of memory studies. It addresses the ‘big issues’ including witnessing, trauma, memorials, the relation between personal and public memory, and generational transmission.” · Peter Carrier, author of HOLOCAUST MONUMENTS AND NATIONAL MEMORY

“This is an excellent collection of essays.” · Peter Lawson, Open University, London

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
I. THE FUTURE OF MEMORY
The Future of Memory: Introduction Rick wns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
1 Beyond the Mnemosyne Institute: The Future of Memory after the Age of Commemoration Dan Stone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2 Rwanda’s Bones Sara Guyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3 The Imperial War Museum North: A Twenty-First Century Museum? Gaynor Bagnall and Antony Rowland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4 Memory and the Monument after 9/11 James E. Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5 The Edge of Memory: Literary Innovation and Childhood Trauma Susan Rubin Suleiman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
II. THE FUTURE OF TESTIMONY
The Future of Testimony: Introduction Antony Rowland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
6 Reading Perpetrator Testimony Robert Eaglestone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
7 Reading beyond the False Memory Syndrome Debates Jane Kilby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
8 False Testimony Sue Vice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
9 Reading Holocaust Poetry: Genre, Authority and Identification Matthew Boswell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
III. THE FUTURE OF TRAUMA
The Future of Trauma: Introduction Jane Kilby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
10 The Trauma Knot Roger Luckhurst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
11 Trauma, Justice, and the Political Unconscious: Arendt and Felman’s Journey to Jerusalem Cathy Caruth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
12 Trauma and Resistance in Art Spiegelman’s In the Shadow of No Towers Anne Whitehead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
13 Facing Losses/Losing Guarantees: A Meditation on Openings to Traumatic Ignorance as a Constitutive Demand Sharon Rosenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
14 Activist Memories: The Politics of Trauma and the Pleasures of Politics Carrie Hamilton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 334
Keywords: History (General); Cultural Studies (General); Memory Studies

eBook

Published: November 1, 2010
ISBN: 9781845458478