Screen LibraryThe transcultural turn : interrogating memory between and beyond borders /
Transculturalism has emerged as one of the most debated and diverse discourses of the interdisciplinary field of memory studies. Analysing the complex ways in which representations of the past travel between and beyond borders in an increasingly globalized present, this edited collection considers s...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2014] ©2014 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Media and cultural memory / medien und kulturelle erinnerung;
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| Online Access: |
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| Summary: |
Transculturalism has emerged as one of the most debated and diverse discourses of the interdisciplinary field of memory studies. Analysing the complex ways in which representations of the past travel between and beyond borders in an increasingly globalized present, this edited collection considers some of the most important developments within memory studies across a variety of cultural and historical contexts from the Holocaust to 9/11. |
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1 online resource (x, 275 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| Bibliography: | 2 schw.-w. Tab. |
| ISBN: | 9783110337617 |
| Index Number: | HM1271 |
| CLC: | D562 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Content -- Introduction / A Dialogue on the Ethics and Politics of Transcultural Memory / Cultural Memory and Transcultural Memory a Conceptual Analysis / Types of Transculturality: Narrative Frameworks and the Commemoration of 9/11 / Europeanized Vernacular Memory: A Case Study from Germany and Poland / Integrating Europe, Integrating Memories: The EU s Politics of Memory since 1945 / Britain and the Formation of Contemporary Holocaust Consciousness: A Product of Europeanization, or Exercise in Triangulation? / Babi Yar: Transcultural Memories of Atrocity From Kiev to Denver / Motion and Sound: Investigating the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Centre / Collective Loss and Commemoration after the Yugoslav Wars: Dubravka Ugresi s Museumizing Gaze / German writers remember 9/11: Katharina Hacker s The Have-Nots / Cross-cultural Memoryscapes: Memory of Colonialism and its Shifting Contexts in Contemporary German Literature / Black Patches and Rotting Weeds: The Great Famine as a Transcultural Figure of Memory in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1855 1885 / Contributors -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms. |