The transcultural turn : interrogating memory between and beyond borders / edited by Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bond, Lucy, 1983- editor.

Rapson, Jessica, 1982- editor.

Series:

Media and cultural memory ; Volume 15.

Media and Cultural Memory/ Medien und kulturelle Erinnerung, 1613-8961 ; Volume 15

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachussetts] : De Gruyter, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This edited collection makes a progressive intervention into the interdisciplinary field of memory studies with a series of essays drawn from diverse theoretical, practitional and cultural backgrounds. The most seminal critical development within memory studies in recent years has arguably been the turn towards transculturalism. This movement engenders a series of methodologies that posit remembrance as a fluid process in which commemorative tropes work to inform the representation of diverse events and traumas beyond national or cultural boundaries, transcending - but not negating - spatial, temporal and ideational differences. Examining a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the essays in this collection focus on the dialogues that shape processes of remembrance between and beyond borders, critiquing the problems and possibilities inherent in current discourses in memorial practice and theory as they approach the challenge of transculturalism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Content

Introduction / Bond, Lucy / Rapson, Jessica

Part One: Theorising Transcultural Memory

A Dialogue on the Ethics and Politics of Transcultural Memory / Moses, A. Dirk / Rothberg, Michael

Cultural Memory and Transcultural Memory - a Conceptual Analysis / Carrier, Peter / Kabalek, Kobi

Types of Transculturality: Narrative Frameworks and the Commemoration of 9/11 / Bond, Lucy

Part Two: Problematising Transcultural Memory

Europeanized Vernacular Memory: A Case Study from Germany and Poland / Breuer, Lars

Integrating Europe, Integrating Memories: The EU's Politics of Memory since 1945 / Sierp, Aline

Britain and the Formation of Contemporary Holocaust Consciousness: A Product of Europeanization, or Exercise in Triangulation? / Pearce, Andy

Babi Yar: Transcultural Memories of Atrocity From Kiev to Denver / Rapson, Jessica

Part Three: The Possibilities of Transcultural Memory

Motion and Sound: Investigating the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Centre / Koenig, Wendy

Collective Loss and Commemoration after the Yugoslav Wars: Dubravka Ugresić's Museumizing Gaze / Tomsky, Terri

German writers remember 9/11: Katharina Hacker's The Have-Nots / Meyer, Franziska

Cross-cultural Memoryscapes: Memory of Colonialism and its Shifting Contexts in Contemporary German Literature / Göttsche, Dirk

Black Patches and Rotting Weeds: The Great Famine as a Transcultural Figure of Memory in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1855-1885 / Corporaal, Marguérite

Contributors

Index of Names

Index of Terms

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110370751

3110370751

9783110337617

3110337614

OCLC:

875820626