The Merits of Memory
Concepts, Contexts, Debates
edited by Hans-Jurgen Grabbe and Sabine Schindler
Hardback (Published)
(January 2009)
ISBN: 9783825353155
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $67.00
Out of stock
Since the publication of Pierre Nora’s landmark anthology ‘Lieux de Memoire’ two decades ago, collective memory has become one of the most intensely studied topics across a wide range of academic disciplines. Focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the United States of America, this volume contributes to the ongoing debate about the complex modes and meanings of communal remembrance past and present. Individual essays revisit and rework Nora’s conceptualization of (post-) modern memory and reexamine the intricate relationship between personal memory, collective memory, and history. Authors discuss communal recollections as a vehicle for cultural recognition and explore the uses and abuses of memory discourses in domestic and international politics. Other contributions address the role of memory in the context of ethnicity, immigration, and transnationalism, and analyze the representational strategies and cultural implications of visualized and virtualized memories. Combining theoretical approaches with empirical case studies, The ‘Merits of Memory’ takes stock of the current state of the field and suggests potential trajectories for the future study of collective memory.
- Edited by Hans-Jurgen Grabbe
- Edited by Sabine Schindler
Other Titles in this Series
Aesthetics & Ethics
Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' to 'House Made of Dawn
Volume 163
Gender – Voice – Vernacular
The Formation of Female Subjectivity in Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker
Volume 77
Comic Art and Avant-Garde
Bill Watterson's 'Calvin and Hobbes' and the Art of American Newspaper Comic Strips
Volume 295
MexAmerica
Genealogien und Analysen postnationaler Diskurse in der kulturellen Produktion von Chicanos/as
Volume 127
Zwischen Tradition und Innovation
Das Sonett in der amerikanischen Dichtung des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts
Volume 93
The Kitchen and the Factory
Spaces of Women's Work and the Negotiation of Social Difference in Antebellum American Literature
Volume 280
A River of ‘Han’: Eastern Tragedy in a Western Land
A Study of Korean American Literature
Volume 259
Modernist Authenticities
The Material Body and the Poetics of Amy Lowell and William Carlos Williams
Volume 245
Transatlantic Crossings Between Paris and New York
Pan-Africanism, Cultural Difference and the Arts in the Interwar Years
Volume 133
Authentizitat und Inszenierung
Die Vermittlung von Geschichte in amerikanischen 'historic sites'
Volume 112
Time(s) of Lives
(Non-)Normative Temporalities, Age(ing), and Kinship Narratives in Contemporary U.S. American Culture
Volume 310
New England Forefathers’ Day Orations, 1770-1865
An Annotated Edition of Selected Plymouth Anniversary Addresses
Volume 240
The American Revolution Remembered, 1830s to 1850s
Competing Images and Conflicting Narratives
Volume 186
Differenz und Gesellschaft
Ethnische Dramen im Englischunterricht am Beispiel von Israel Zangwills 'The Melting Pot' und Angelina Weld Grimkes 'Rachel'
Volume 154
The Construction and Contestation of American Cultures and Identities in the Early National Period
Volume 78
Reshaping the Maze – Rewriting the Minotaur
Transformationen des Labyrinthmythos in der zeitgenossischen amerikanischen Erzahlliteratur
Volume 235
Similar Books
Attics and Basements
The Evocative, Expressive and Embracing Functions of Homes and Other Human Dwellings
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
