1st Edition
Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
1. Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture: An Introduction Liedeke Plate and Anneke Smelik Part I: Staging Memory 2. Life or Theatre, Diary or Drama: On the Performance of Memory in the Visual Arts Lisa Saltzman 3. Multidirectional Memory and the Implicated Subject: On Sebald and Kentridge Michael Rothberg 4. Phantom Pains: Dramatising Flemish Collaboration with Nazism Klaas Tindemans Part II: Spectral Memories 5. Memories of Catastrophes Yet To Come: New Brutalism and Thing-Memory Ben Highmore 6. Haunted by Hunger: Images of Spectrality in Literary Recollections of the Great Irish Famine, 1850-1900 Marguérite Corporaal 7. Naming the Unnameable: (De)constructing 9/11’s Falling Man László Munteán Part III: Embodied Memories 8. If These Walls Could Walk: Architecture as a Deformative Scenography of the Past Kris Pint 9. Bodies With(out) Memories: Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Dance Timmy de Laet Part IV: Mediating Memories 10. Punctuating National Histories: History Painting and Performativity Louise Wolthers 11. ‘Forget Me Not’: The Performance of Memory in Xena: Warrior Princess Wim Tigges 12. Textures of Time: A Becoming-Memory of History in Costume Film Elise Wortel and Anneke Smelik
Biography
Liedeke Plate is Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Anneke Smelik is Professor of Visual Culture at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
"Moving from embodied to externalized, from generational to historical and spectral memories, this collection of essays discusses challenging methodological problems that can revitalize the study of memory." -- Aleida Assmann, Universität Konstanz, Germany
