Remembering and Forgetting: Memory in Images and Texts

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-89528-778-7
Verlag: Aisthesis

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 166 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 320 g

Reihe: The Bielefeld English and American Studies series in the Bieleferder Schriften zu Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft

This book is a collection of essays devoted to the representation and politics of memory in cultural texts. How individuals and communities use memory to navigate the current global situation is the subject of many of the essays collected in this volume, while other essays contextualize these strategies by examining functions and interrogations of memory in earlier geopolitical environments. Taken as a whole, they form a multifaceted exploration of how various forms of memory are discursively constructed and negotiated in literature, art, media, or other cultural modes of representation. The collection addresses a wide array of texts and cultural contexts.

Zielgruppe

Anglisten, Amerikanisten

Autoren/Hrsg.

Andres, Julia

Askin, Ridvan

Fromme, Marcel

Wait, Alethea R

Kirchhof, Carolin

Hartner, Marcus

Joyce, Stephen

Kaltmeier, Olaf

Love, Bond

Munteán, László

Raussert, Wilfried

Rukwied, Annette

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Julia Andres, Stephen Joyce, Bond Love, Wilfried Raussert, and Alethea R. Wait: Introduction

* Julia Andres: Tú eres mi otro yo – Your Story is my Story. Caramelo: Strands of Memory woven into a Universal Pattern

* Ridvan Askin: Mneme, Anamnesis and Mimesis: The Function of Narrative in Paul Ricoeur’s Theory of Memory

* Marcel Fromme and Alethea R. Wait (with Carolin Kirchhof): Re-Membering the Terrorist Spectacle: Medial Discourses, the Shaping of History and Collective Cultural Memory in the Wake of 9/11

* Marcus Hartner: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis: Penelope Lively’s Moon Tiger and its Academic Response

* Stephen Joyce: The Sea of Memory: Cultural Memories and Postmemories of the Japanese Occupation in Korean American Literature

* Olaf Kaltmeier: Heritage Cities and the Trauma of Coloniality: Postcolonial Conflicts about Space, Identity, and Memory in Historic City Centers in the Americas

* Bond Love: “So I will have to see him”: Resisting Cultural Memory in William Faulkner?s Go Down, Moses

* László Munteán: Working Through Ground Zero

* Wilfried Raussert: Call Me Ishmael: Melville as Archaeologist of Body and Text

* Annette Rukwied: Between Obligation and Empowerment: Negotiating Cultural Memory, Past and Present:Luis J. Rodríguez, Always Running. La Vida Loca. Gang Days in L.A. (1993), Luis Alberto Urrea, Nobody’s Son: Notes from an American Life (1998),Oscar Casares, Brownsville (2003)

Über Autor(innen)

Wilfried Raussert is Chair of North American Studies and Inter-American Studies at the University of Bielefeld. He is Executive Director of the International Association of Inter-American Studies.

Bond Love is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bielefeld and teaches North American Studies.

Julia Andres and Stephen Joyce are doctoral students at the University of Bielefeld and teach in the field of North American and Interamerican Studies.