Doing Memory Revisited

Transmediale und transgenerationale Aktualisierungen

Contributions by Matthias Nawrat Contributions by Alois Hotschnig Contributions by Laure Gallouët Contributions by Irina Gradinari Contributions by Elzbieta Tomasi-Kapral Contributions by Kalina Kupczyńska Contributions by Gudrun Heidemann Contributions by Regina Hofer Contributions by Leopold Maurer Contributions by May Blank Contributions by Jana Schmidt Contributions by Aleksandra Lévy-Lendzinska Contributions by Ewa Mazurkiewicz Edited by Gudrun Heidemann

Book cover: Doing Memory Revisited

Extent: 231 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Literary Studies, Music & Performing Arts

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(December 2023)

ISBN: 9783847116547

6.3 x 9.33 inches

Price: $69.00

On back order

Analog zum Doing Gender resultieren aus einem Doing Memory vermeintlich zutreffende Zuschreibungen. Der Band zeigt, wie Geschichte unter unterschiedlichen medialen wie generationalen Bedingungen narrativ verarbeitet wird. Als ludische Strategie wird hierbei in Comic und Literatur der Umgang mit einer jeweils nationalen Geschichtspolitik ausgemacht. Durch die Aneignung von fremdem literarischen wie archivarischen Material erweist sich Geschichte in weiteren Beispielen als familiar gepragt. Performative Aktualisierungen werden exemplarischen Re-enactments, vergangenheitsgegenwartigen Filmen und Erinnerungsstrategien attestiert.


Similar to the ‘Doing Gender’, a ‘Doing Memory’ results in seemingly accurate attributions. The volume shows how history is narratively elaborated under different media and generational conditions. In comics and literature, the handling of a respective national politics of history is identified as a ludic strategy. Through the adoption of foreign literary and archival material, history is shown to be shaped by family in further examples. Performative actualisations are confirmed in exemplary re-enactments, past-present films and strategies of remembrance. The analyses are complemented by interviews with authors about found and invented biographies from the perspective of perpetrators and victims in literature and comics. Finally, the volume presents didactic approaches as a comic workshop and an interview with an author.

  • Contributions by Matthias Nawrat
  • Contributions by Alois Hotschnig
  • Contributions by Laure Gallouët
  • Contributions by Irina Gradinari
  • Contributions by Elzbieta Tomasi-Kapral
  • Contributions by Kalina Kupczyńska
  • Contributions by Gudrun Heidemann
  • Contributions by Regina Hofer
  • Contributions by Leopold Maurer
  • Contributions by May Blank
  • Contributions by Jana Schmidt
  • Contributions by Aleksandra Lévy-Lendzinska
  • Contributions by Ewa Mazurkiewicz
  • Edited by Gudrun Heidemann