Cultural Memory Studies: An International And Interdisciplinary Handbook (Media And Cultural Memory/ Medien Und Kulturelle Erinnerung)

This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of "cultural memory studies" for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The handbook not only documents current research in an unprecedented way; it also serves as a forum for bringing together approaches from areas as varied as sociology, political sciences, history, theology, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, psychology, and neurosciences. "Cultural memory studies" - as defined in this handbook - came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, with the works of Maurice Halbwachs on memoire collective . In the course of the last two decades this area of research has witnessed a veritable boom in various countries and disciplines. As a consequence, the study of the relation of "culture" and "memory" has diversified into a wide range of approaches. This handbook is based on a broad understanding of "cultural memory" as the interplay of present and past in sociocultural contexts. It presents concepts for the study of individual remembering in a social context, group and family memory, national memory, the various media of memory, and finally the host of emerging transnational lieux de memoire such as 9/11. Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 7 Cultural Memory Studies: An Introduction......Page 9 Loci memoriae—Lieux de mémoire......Page 27 Italian luoghi della memoria......Page 35 Mitteleuropa as a lieu de mémoire......Page 45 Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures......Page 55 Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War......Page 69 Memory and the History of Mentalities......Page 85 The Invention of Cultural Memory......Page 93 Canon and Archive......Page 105 Communicative and Cultural Memory......Page 117 Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory......Page 127 Cultural Memory: A European Perspective......Page 135 Maurice Halbwachs’s mémoire collective......Page 149 From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products......Page 159 Memory in Post-Authoritarian Societies......Page 171 Memory and Politics......Page 181 Social Forgetting: A Systems-Theory Approach......Page 189 Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach......Page 199 Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricoeur’s Theory ofthe Capable Self......Page 211 Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present......Page 223 Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma......Page 237 Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past......Page 249 A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories......Page 261 Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes......Page 271 Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences......Page 283 Communicative Memory......Page 293 Mnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature......Page 309 Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon......Page 319 Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies......Page 329 The Literary Representation of Memory......Page 341 The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts Between Monumentality and Morphing......Page 353 The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History......Page 365 The Photograph as Externalization and Trace......Page 375 Journalism’s Memory Work......Page 387 Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory......Page 397 Memory and Media Cultures......Page 407 Index of Names......Page 417 Index of Terms......Page 431 Notes on Contributors......Page 435 This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of “cultural memory studies” for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cultural memory studies. The handbook not only documents current research in an unprecedented way; it also serves as a forum for bringing together approaches from areas as varied as sociology, political sciences, history, theology, literary studies, media studies, philosophy, psychology, and neurosciences.“Cultural memory studies” – as defined in this handbook – came into being at the beginning of the 20th century, with the works of Maurice Halbwachs on mémoire collective. In the course of the last two decades this area of research has witnessed a veritable boom in various countries and disciplines. As a consequence, the study of the relation of “culture” and “memory” has diversified into a wide range of approaches. This handbook is based on a broad understanding of “cultural memory” as the interplay of present and past in sociocultural contexts. It presents concepts for the study of individual remembering in a social context, group and family memory, national memory, the various media of memory, and finally the host of emerging transnational lieux de mémoire such as 9/11.