Memory Studies in the Digital Age An Interdisciplinary Perspective

Introduction

PART I: The Mnemonics of Storytelling and Memory studies

1.     Storytelling as a Cultural Practice:  Memory, Emancipation, and Survival as Sites of Resistance             Ashma Shamail

2.     In Search of Fragments of Recollection: Cultural Memory and Identity in the Select Travel Narratives of Tahir Shah

Divyashree J S, Sajitha.B

3.     Contextualising Memory Studies in Bedtime Stories: Understanding the Praxis of Formative Literary Frameworks

Rafid C

PART II: Digital Technologies: A Powerful Medium of Memory

4. Remediating Karna: A Critique of the Canon and Caste

M. Subhasree

5. Ways of Remembering: A Study on the Use of Collective Memory in Stranger Things and Miss Marvel

Athira Manoharan and Aishwarya S. Babu

6. Memory Studies in Korean Drama: Exploring the Intersections of Memory Through a Theoretical Interdisciplinary Lens

Rashmi Naik and Geetha Bhasker

7. Making Village Alive in the City: Understanding Village-ness among Gurjars in Madanpur Khadar  Vishesh Pratap Gurjar

PART III: Self/Other Self -Memory and Analysis of Identity

8. Memoirs Doubting Memory: An Exploration of Tara Westover's Educated

Vishnu Priya T. P

9. Memory in Question: Decoding the ‘Self’ in Select Indian Penal Autobiographies

 Ananya Parida and Shashibushan Nayak

10. Affect : Human Libraries as an Intersection of Memory and Affect Archiving

Kavya R K

11. An Analysis of Emotional and Media Factors of the Flashbulb Memory on Recollection of YSR’s Demise: A Comparative Study

Haritha.G

PART IV: Partition- Analyzing the Bloodiest Chapter of Indian Subcontinent

12. Analysing the Role of Memory in Oral History with respect to Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence

Chaitanya V

 13. Reconstructing Memoryscapes: The Role of Imagined Homelands in Post-Partition Bengali  Memoirs

Shreya Mukherjee

 14. Memories of 1947: A Journey from Oral to Digital

Mahuya Bhaumik

  15. Unravelling the Narratives of Partition: A Study of Individual and Historical Memories in Film Maithry Shinde

PART V: Voices of Memory Studies from India

16. Memory of 1971 War in Indian Cinema: A lieux de mémoire

D. Sudha Rani

17. Stor(y)ing Memory and Totam : Perspectives Towards Oral Narratives

 Sathwana Santosh and Jolly Puthussery

18. The Patua and Patachitra: Religiosity, Tradition and Memory in Scroll Paintings of Bengal Soutik Chakraborty

19. Memories of Her-stories as Feminist Praxis in K. R. Meera’s Hangwoman

Averi Mukhopadhyay and Puja Gosh

PART VI: Perspectives of Memory from World Literature

20. Exploration of Memory in Oonya Kempadoo’s All Decent Animals and Buxton Spice

Isha Banerjee

21. Memory, Expectation and Failure in the Theatre and Film productions of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie: A Case Study

Hindol Chakraborty

22. Stories To Stay, Stories To Subvert’: The Role Of Collective Communal Memory In The Native-Canadian Struggle For Resistance Against Colonisation

Urmi Sengupta

23. Revisiting African Origins through Memory Codes: A Study of Alex Haley’s Roots

 Rachel Irdaya Raj

Biography

D. Sudha Rani is an Associate Professor of English with over 30 years of extensive teaching/research experience in English language, literature, and memory studies. She is an active scholar and has presented and published a lot of research work along with nine books that are prescribed in different universities and colleges. Since her research area is Memory Studies, she established the Centre for Memory Studies and Storytelling at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous), Hyderabad.

Rachel Irdaya Raj is an Assistant Professor in English and has two decades of teaching/research experience in English language, literature, soft skills, memory studies, gender studies, research methodology, and English for academic writing. She has contributed towards content development for listening skills tests for Osmania University and co-authored textbooks for undergraduates at Osmania University, Mahatma Gandhi University, and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University. She is involved in establishing the Centre for Memory Studies and Storytelling at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous), Hyderabad.

Memory Studies in Digital Age offers a fascinating panoply of memory studies in the present age. With its essays on digital technologies, storytelling, and identity it showcases the interdisciplinary scope of the field. The book’s focus on the Indian subcontinent provides rich new insights into hitherto under-researched constellations of memory.

 

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Astrid Erll (The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)