The mnemonic imagination : remembering as creative practice / Emily Keightley, Michael Pickering.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keightley, Emily, 1981-

Contributor:

Pickering, Michael.

Series:

Palgrave Macmillan memory studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory.

Memory--Social aspects.

Nostalgia.

Physical Description:

viii, 239 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

Exploring the creative dimensions of memory and remembering, Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering tackle some of the Key questions facing the emergent field of memory studies, including the nature of the relationship between memory and experience and between individual and collective memory. The most crucial relationship examined is one which has previously been largely ignored: the relationship between memory and imagination. The book argues for the importance of bringing imagination into the purview of memory studies, and introduces the key concept of the mnemonic imagination as a tool for demonstrating the mutual interaction of memory and imagination in our everyday practices and processes of making sense of experience. Showing how the mnemonic imaginations works in various aspects of personal life and popular culture, the authors address diverse topic such as the commercial exploitation of nostalgia and the remembering of traumatic and painful pasts.

Emily Keightley is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK. She has published her research on time, memory and everyday life in a number of international journals. She is the editor of Time, Media and Modernity and is currently co-editing Research Methods for Memory Studies with Michael Pickering. She is also Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Memory and Experience 14

2 The Mnemonic Imagination 43

3 Personal and Popular Memory 81

4 The Reclamation of Nostalgia 112

5 The Foreclosure of Mnemonic Imagining 139

6 Creative Memory and Painful Pasts 165.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.

ISBN:

9780230243361

0230243363

OCLC:

795181599