Bond / Rapson The Transcultural Turn

Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-033761-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 285 Seiten

Reihe: Media and Cultural Memory / Medien und kulturelle ErinnerungISSN

This edited collection makes a progressive intervention into the interdisciplinary field of memory studies with a series of essays drawn from diverse theoretical, practitional and cultural backgrounds. The most seminal critical development within memory studies in recent years has arguably been the turn towards transculturalism. This movement engenders a series of methodologies that posit remembrance as a fluid process in which commemorative tropes work to inform the representation of diverse events and traumas beyond national or cultural boundaries, transcending – but not negating – spatial, temporal and ideational differences. Examining a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the essays in this collection focus on the dialogues that shape processes of remembrance between and beyond borders, critiquing the problems and possibilities inherent in current discourses in memorial practice and theory as they approach the challenge of transculturalism.

Zielgruppe

Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaftler

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bond, Lucy

Rapson, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Geschichtspolitik, Erinnerungskultur
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Kultureller Wandel, Kulturkontakt, Akkulturation
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;7
2;Introduction;11
3;Part One: Theorising Transcultural Memory;37
3.1;A Dialogue on the Ethics and Politics of Transcultural Memory;39
3.2;Cultural Memory and Transcultural Memory – a Conceptual Analysis;49
3.3;Types of Transculturality: Narrative Frameworks and the Commemoration of 9/11;71
4;Part Two: Problematising Transcultural Memory;91
4.1;Europeanized Vernacular Memory: A Case Study from Germany and Poland;93
4.2;Integrating Europe, Integrating Memories: The EU’s Politics of Memory since 1945;113
4.3;Britain and the Formation of Contemporary Holocaust Consciousness: A Product of Europeanization, or Exercise in Triangulation?;129
4.4;Babi Yar: Transcultural Memories of Atrocity From Kiev to Denver;149
5;Part Three: The Possibilities of Transcultural Memory;173
5.1;Motion and Sound: Investigating the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Centre;175
5.2;Collective Loss and Commemoration after the Yugoslav Wars: Dubravka Ugresic’s Museumizing Gaze;201
5.3;German writers remember 9/11: Katharina Hacker’s The Have-Nots;219
5.4;Cross-cultural Memoryscapes: Memory of Colonialism and its Shifting Contexts in Contemporary German Literature;235
5.5;Black Patches and Rotting Weeds: The Great Famine as a Transcultural Figure of Memory in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1855–1885;257
6;Contributors;277
7;Index of Names;281
8;Index of Terms;283

Über Autor(innen)

Lucy Bond, University of Westminster; Jessica Rapson, University of London., Great Britain.