Travels in time : essays on collective memory in motion / Astrid Erll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Erll, Astrid, author.

Series:

Studies in collective memory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory and literature.

Collective memory.

Collective memory--History.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Other Title:

Essays on collective memory in motion

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

In 'Travels in Time', Astrid Erll addresses the question of how collective memory emerges through motion - the movements of people, media, forms, and practices. Grounded in literary, cultural, and media memory studies, the essays discuss the ways in which families and generations are shaped by the past; how media such as literature, film, and photography make and remake collective memory; or the cultural dimensions of trauma, flashbulb memories, or implicit memory. They also consider traveling memory through the repercussions of recent historical events and long-term mnemonic processes, ranging from Greek antiquity to British colonialism in India, and from the First and Second World Wars to 9/11 and Covid-19.

Contents:

Traveling memory

Traveling memory in European film

Homer: A relational mnemohistory

Memory worlds in times of corona

Locating family in memory studies

Generation in literary history: Genealogy, generationality, memory

Fictions of generational memory: Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow (2009)

Literature, film, and the mediality of cultural memory

Remediation across time, space, and cultures: The Indian Rebellion of 1857-1858

Plurimediality and traveling schemata: “District Six”

The ethics of premediation in James Joyce’s Ulysses

The hidden power of implicit collective memory

Ecologies of trauma

Flashbulb memories: An interdisciplinary research program (with William Hirst).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed July 30, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Erll, Astrid. Travels in time.

ISBN:

9780197767771

019776777X

OCLC:

1499840226

Publisher Number:

CIPO000197744

Access Restriction:

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