1st Edition

Transcultural Memory

Edited By Rick Crownshaw Copyright 2014
142 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Memories are not static or frozen, remaining in particular sites or places, within and belonging to particular groups, cultures or nations; rather, memory travels. Broadly speaking, memory has travelled because of the demographic displacements brought about by modernity’s extremes – slavery, colonialism, ethnic cleansing and genocide – and also because of the trade, travel and migration made... Read more

Introduction: Transcultural Memory Rick Crownshaw  1. Traveling Memory Astrid Erll  2. Media, Memory, Metaphor: Remembering and the Connective Turn Andrew Hoskins  3. Memory Citizenship: Migrant Archives of Holocaust Remembrance in Contemporary Germany Michael Rothberg and Yasemin Yildiz  4. From Sarajevo to 9/11: Travelling Memory and the Trauma Economy Terri Tomsky  5. Transcultural Memory in Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Truth and Reconciliation Yifat Gutman  6. Perpetrator Fictions and Transcultural Memory Rick Crownshaw  7. Genocide and the Terror of History Dirk Moses  8. What place is this? Transcultural Memory and the Locations of Memory Studies Susannah Radstone

Biography

Rick Crownshaw is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where he teaches American literature. He is the author of The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Fiction and Culture (2010).