Memory Histories, Theories, Debates / edited by Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radstone, Susannah, Editor.

Contributor:

Schwarz, Bill, 1951-

Radstone, Susannah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Memory (Philosophy).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 561 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fordham University Press 2010

New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These essays survey the histories, the theories and the fault lines that compose the field of memory research. Drawing on the advances in the sciences and in the humanities, they address the question of how memory works, highlighting transactions between the interiority of subjective memory and the larger fields of public or collective memory.

Contents:

Introduction: mapping memory / Susannah Radstone and Bill Schwarz

How to make a composition: memory-craft in antiquity and the middle ages / Mary Carruthers

The reformation of memory in early modern Europe / Peter Sherlock

Memory, temporality, modernity: Les lieux de mémoire / Bill Schwarz

Bergson on memory / Keith Ansell-Pearson

Halbwachs and the social properties of memory / Erika Apfelbaum

Memory in Freud / Richard Terdiman

Proust: the music of memory / Michael Wood

Siegfriend Kracauer and Walter Benjamin: memory from Weimar to Hitler / Esther Leslie

Adorno on the destruction of memory / Brian O'Connor

Acts of memory and mourning: Derrida and the fictions of anteriority / Gerhard Richter

Deleuze and the overcoming of memory / Keith Ansell-Pearson

Memory and the unconscious / Roger Kennedy

Memories are made of this / Steven Rose

Memory and cognition / John Sutton, Celia B. Harris, and Amanda J. Barnier

Physiological memory systems / Howard Caygill

Memory-talk : London childhoods / Sally Alexander

Affect and embodiment / Felicity Callard and Constantina Papoulias

Telling stories: memory and narrative / Mark Freeman

Ritual and memory / Stephan Feuchtwang

A long war: public memory and the popular media / Paula Hamilton

Sites of memory / Jay Winter

Cinema and memory / Susannah Radstone

Machines of memory / Steve Goodman and Luciana Parisi

Slavery, historicism, and the poverty of memorialization / Stephan Palmié

Soviet memories: patriotism and trauma / Catherine Merridale

The witness in the archive: holocaust studies/memory studies / Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer

The long afterlife of loss / Eva Hoffman

Migration, food, memory, and home-building / Ghassan Hage

The seventh veil: feminism, recovered memory, and the politics of the unconscious / Janice Haaken

The gender of memory in post-apartheid South Africa / Annie E. Coombes

Afterword / Luisa Passerini.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-7512-4

0-8232-3261-1

OCLC:

649914627

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access