Transnational Memory: Circulation, Articulation, Scales
Berlin; Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter (2014), viii, 376 pp.
Contains index
Series: Media and Cultural Memory, 19
ISBN 978-3-11-048601-8 (pbk); 978-3-11-035910-7 (pdf)
"How do memories circulate transnationally and to what effect? How to understand the enduring role of national memories and their simultaneous reconfiguration under globalization? Challenging the methodological nationalism that has until recently dominated the study of memory and heritage, this book charts the rich production of memory across and beyond national borders. Arguing for the fruitfulness of a transnational as distinct from a global approach, it places the issues of circulation, articulation and the scales of remembrance at the centre of its inquiry. In the process, it sheds new light on the ways in which mediation, post-coloniality, migration and regional integration affect both the way we remember and the role of memory in contemporary societies. In this interdisciplinary collection, humanities and social science scholars examine a rich sample of cases from the nineteenth century on, stretching across the globe from Vietnam to Europe and the Middle East, to the USA and the Pacific, and involving a wide range of cultural practices from quilting to films, from photography to heritage sites and monuments. In the process, the volume develops a new theoretical framework while proposing new methodological tools and resources for studying collective remembrance beyond the nation-state." (Publisher description)
Introduction / Chiara De Cesari and Ann Rigney
I. CIRCULATION
From 'District Six' to District 9 and Back: The Plurimedial Production of Travelling Schemata / Astrid Erll, 29
Moving Testimony: Human Rights, Palestinian Memory, and the Transnational Public Sphere / Rosanne Kennedy, 51
Archive, Memory, and Loss: Constructing Images in the Armenian Diaspora / Marie-Aude Baronian, 79
Relational Maps in the Cook Islands Transnational Communities / Susanne Küchler, 99
II. ARTICULATION
Multidirectional Memory in Migratory Settings: The Case of Post-Holocaust Germany / Michael Rothberg, 123
Slavery and Transnational Memory: The Making of New Publics / Paulla A. Ebron, 147
Between the Local, National, and Transnational: Photographic Recording and Memorializing Desire / Elizabeth Edwards, 169
Memory, Identity, and Roma Transnational Nationalism / Slawomir Kapralski, 195
Imaging Humanity: Socialist Film and Transnational Memories of the War in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel, 219
III. SCALES
World Heritage and the Nation-State: A View from Palestine / Chiara De Cesari, 247
Haunting Memory: The Extension of Kinship Beyond the Nation / Stephan Feuchtwang, 271
Postwar Europe and the Colonial Past in Photographs / Susan Legêne and Martijn Eickhoff, 287
Transnationalism in Reverse: From Yugoslav to Post-Yugoslav Memorial Sites / Gal Kirn, 313
Ongoing: Changing Memory and the European Project / Ann Rigney, 339
Envoi: Centra di permanenza temporanea / Adrian Paci, 361
I. CIRCULATION
From 'District Six' to District 9 and Back: The Plurimedial Production of Travelling Schemata / Astrid Erll, 29
Moving Testimony: Human Rights, Palestinian Memory, and the Transnational Public Sphere / Rosanne Kennedy, 51
Archive, Memory, and Loss: Constructing Images in the Armenian Diaspora / Marie-Aude Baronian, 79
Relational Maps in the Cook Islands Transnational Communities / Susanne Küchler, 99
II. ARTICULATION
Multidirectional Memory in Migratory Settings: The Case of Post-Holocaust Germany / Michael Rothberg, 123
Slavery and Transnational Memory: The Making of New Publics / Paulla A. Ebron, 147
Between the Local, National, and Transnational: Photographic Recording and Memorializing Desire / Elizabeth Edwards, 169
Memory, Identity, and Roma Transnational Nationalism / Slawomir Kapralski, 195
Imaging Humanity: Socialist Film and Transnational Memories of the War in Vietnam / Christina Schwenkel, 219
III. SCALES
World Heritage and the Nation-State: A View from Palestine / Chiara De Cesari, 247
Haunting Memory: The Extension of Kinship Beyond the Nation / Stephan Feuchtwang, 271
Postwar Europe and the Colonial Past in Photographs / Susan Legêne and Martijn Eickhoff, 287
Transnationalism in Reverse: From Yugoslav to Post-Yugoslav Memorial Sites / Gal Kirn, 313
Ongoing: Changing Memory and the European Project / Ann Rigney, 339
Envoi: Centra di permanenza temporanea / Adrian Paci, 361
