Memory Cultures: Memory, Subjectivity and Recognition (Memory and Narrative)

ISBN 10: 1138527912 / ISBN 13: 9781138527911

Published by Routledge, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Memory Cultures: Memory, Subjectivity and Recognition (Memory and Narrative)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138527912
• ISBN 13: 9781138527911
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In recent years memory has attracted increasing attention. From analyses of electronic communication and the Internet to discussions of heritage culture, to debates about victimhood and sexual abuse, memory is currently generating much cultural interest. This interdisciplinary collection takes a journey through memory in order to contextualize this current "memory boom."

Memory Cultures focuses on memories "outside"--in the many fields within which understandings of memory have been produced. It focuses less on memory as an object whose inner workings are to be studied, and more on memory as a concept. It traces the genealogies of our contemporary Western understandings of memory through studies of the early modern arts of memory. It also discusses nineteenth-century evolutionary museums, and the modernist explorations of artists and writers. Here it explores the differences between Western and non-Western concepts of the lived past and compares understandings of memory in history, psychoanalysis, and anthropology.

The volume is divided into five parts: "Believing the Body"; "Propping the Subject"; "What Memory Forgets: Models of the Mind"; "What History Forgets: Memory and Time"; and "Memory Beyond the Modern." Individual essays by many of the foremost international scholars in memory studies trace memory's intimate association with identity and recognition, with cities, with lived time, with the science of the mind, with fantasy and with the media.

Memory Cultures will be of essential interest to those working in the fields of cultural studies, history and also anthropology.

About the Author

Selma Leydesdorff