Memory Unbound : Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies

Though Still A Relatively Young Field, Memory Studies Has Undergone Significant Transformations Since It First Coalesced As An Area Of Inquiry. Increasingly, Scholars Understand Memory To Be A Fluid, Dynamic, Unbound Phenomenon-a Process Rather Than A Reified Object. Embodying Just Such An Elastic Approach, This State-of-the-field Collection Systematically Explores The Transcultural, Transgenerational, Transmedial, And Transdisciplinary Dimensions Of Memory-four Key Dynamics That Have Sometimes Been Studied In Isolation But Never In Such An Integrated Manner. Memory Unbound Places Leading Researchers In Conversation With Emerging Voices In The Field To Recast Our Understanding Of Memory's Distinctive Variability.-- Introduction : Memory On The Move / Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, And Pieter Vermeulen -- Staging Shared Memory : Je Veux Voir And L'empreinte De L'ange / Max Silverman -- Remembering The Indonesian Killings : The Act Of Killing And The Global Memory Imperative / Rosanne Kennedy -- Transnational Memory And The Construction Of History Through Mass Media / Aleida Assmann -- Small Acts Of Repair : The Unclaimed Legacy Of The Romanian Holocaust / Marianne Hirsch And Leo Spitzer -- Fictions Of Generational Memory : Caryl Phillips's In The Falling Snow And Black British Writing In Times Of Mnemonic Transition / Astrid Erll -- The Uses Of Facebook For Examining Collective Memory : The Emergence Of Nasser Facebook Pages In Egypt / Joyce Van De Bildt -- Connective Memory : How Facebook Takes Charge Of Your Past / José Van Dijck -- Embodiments Of Memory : Toward An Existential Approach To The Culture Of Connectivity / Amanda Lagerkvist -- Metaphorical Memories Of The Medieval Crusades After 9/11 / Brian Johnsrud -- The Agency Of Memory Objects : Tracing Memories Of Soweto At Regina Mundi Church / Frauke Wiegand -- Cultural Memory Studies In The Epoch Of The Anthropocene / Richard Crownshaw -- Filled With Words : Modeling The September 11 Digital Archive And The Utility Of Digital Methods In The Study Of Memory / Jessica K. Young. Edited By Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, And Pieter Vermeulen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Contents List of Illustrations Introduction: Memory on the Move • Lucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter Vermeulen Part I. Transcultural Memory 1. Staging Shared Memory: Je Veux voir and L’Empreinte de l’ange • Max Silverman 2. Remembering the Indonesian Killings: The Act of Killing and the Global Memory Imperative • Rosanne Kennedy 3. Transnational Memory and the Construction of History through Mass Media • Aleida Assmann Part II. Transgenerational Memory 4. Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of the Romanian Holocaust • Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 5. Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow and Black British Writing in Times of Mnemonic Transition • Astrid Erll 6. The Uses of Facebook for Examining Collective Memory: The Emergence of Nasser Facebook Pages in Egypt • Joyce van de Bildt Part III. Transmedial Memory 7. Connective Memory: How Facebook Takes Charge of Your Past • José van Dijck 8. Embodiments of Memory: Toward an Existential Approach to the Culture of Connectivity • Amanda Lagerkvist 9. Metaphorical Memories of the Medieval Crusades after 9/11 • Brian Johnsrud Part IV. Transdisciplinary Memory 10. The Agency of Memory Objects: Tracing Memories of Soweto at Regina Mundi Church • Frauke Wiegand 11. Cultural Memory Studies in the Epoch of the Anthropocene • Richard Crownshaw 12. “Filled with Words”: Modeling the September 11 Digital Archive and the Utility of Digital Methods in the Study of Memory • Jessica K. Young Index