Memory Studies in the Nordic Countries: A Handbook / edited by Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir and Ulla Savolainen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gudmundsdóttir, Gunnthórunn, editor.

Savolainen, Ulla, editor.

Series:

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies ; 1

Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Literature and Cultural Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (0 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This peer-reviewed international handbook focuses on memory studies in the Nordic countries. It is a multi-disciplinary and transnational work that explores and maps characteristics and applications of the fast-growing field of memory studies in the Nordic region and in relation to the global context. With contributions focusing on theoretical and disciplinary reflections, illustrative thematic overviews, as well as elaborations of concepts and approaches in the Nordic setting, the handbook serves as a multi-disciplinary reference guide for researchers and students interested in memory studies. Existing and emerging debates have been carefully mapped, as well as disciplinary trajectories of the field, thematic, pragmatic, aesthetic, and ideological features of Nordic memory cultures. This comprehensive handbook of memory studies in the Nordic countries provides a stepping stone for future developments in the field.

Contents:

Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on contributors

1 Memory in the Nordic Countries

Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir and Ulla Savolainen

PART 1

Agents and Agencies of Memory

2 Queer Memory

Riikka Taavetti, Hafdís Erla Hafsteinsdóttir and Anu Koivunen

3 Indigenous Agency

Silke Reeploeg

4 Colonialist Legacy and Public Commemoration: Denmark and the West Indies

Marianne Stecher-Hansen

5 Memory Objects of Oceanic Colonialism

Magdalena Zolkos

PART 2

Politics of Memory and History

6 State Redress and Memory Politics

Astrid Nonbo Andersen and Malin Arvidsson

7 Mnemohistory of Stalinist Repression in Finland

Ulla Savolainen and Meeri Siukonen

8 Russian Speakers in Finland and the Memory of World War II

Olga Davydova-Minguet

9 Iceland’s Foreign Policy Identities

Valur Ingimundarson

PART 3

Cultural Mediations of Memory

10 Pre-modern Times

Pernille Hermann

11 Audiovisual Memory and Nordic Cinema

Gunnar Iversen

12 Recent Norwegian World War II Film, Television, and Theater Productions

Siemke Böhnisch, Anne Gjelsvik and Siri Hempel Lindøe

13 Traumatic Memory in Literature

Riitta Jytilä

PART 4

Personal, Embodied, and Spatial Memories

14 Multiperspectivity in Museums

Ene Kõresaar, Kirsti Jõesalu, Olli Kleemola and Anne Heimo

15 Memory Work across Difference

Robert Nilsson Mohammadi, Sima Nurali Wolgast and Francesca Cerri

16 Embodied Memory Encounters

Anna-Kaisa Kuusisto and Kristiina Korjonen-Kuusipuro

17 Emplaced Memories in the Urban Landscape

Ólafur Rastrick

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-73628-X

9789004736283

OCLC:

1546964355

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004736283 DOI