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Collective remembering is an important way that communities name and make sense of the past. Places and stories about the past influence how communities remember the past, how they try to preserve it, or in some cases how they try to erase it. The research in this book offers key insights into how places and memories intersect with intercultural conflicts, oppressions, and struggles by which communities make sense of, deal with, and reconcile the past. The authors in this book examine fascinating stories from important sites-such as international commemorations of Korean "Comfort Women," a film representation of the Stonewall Riots, and remembrances of the post-communist state in Albania. By utilizing various critical and cultural studies and ethnographic and narrative-based methods, each chapter examines cultural memory in intercultural encounters, everyday experiences, and identity performances that evoke collective memories of colonial pasts, immigration processes, and memories of places and spaces that are shaped by power structures and clashing ideologies. This book is essential reading for understanding the links between space/place and cultural memory, memories of nationally, and places constituted by markers of ethnicity, race, and sexuality. These readings are especially useful in courses in intercultural communication, cultural studies, international studies, and peace and conflict studies.
List of contents
Ahmet Atay, Yea- Wen Chen, and Alberto González: Introduction: Intercultural Communication, Memory, and Stories - Peter Ehrenhaus and A. Susan Owen: Communities of Memory, Coalition, and Race Trauma: The Moore's Ford Lynching Reenactment - Eun YoungLee and Alberto González: Be)Coming Home: Transformative Places and Koreamerican Identity in Itaewon, South Korea - Yea- Wen Chen and Chunyu Zhang: When "Chiang Kai- shek Memorial Square" Became "Liberty Square": A Case of Contested Public Memories in Taiwan - NinaGjoci: Remembering Communism: The Site of Witness and Memory and the House of Leaves Museums in Albania - Kathryn Hobson, Bernadette Marie Calafell, and Spencer B. Margulies: Mis)Remembering Stonewall: Narrative Authority and the American Monomyth in Queer Public Memory - Shinsuke Eguchi: Queer Fantasy: A Memory of Michael Sam's Big Gay Kiss - Ahmet Atay: Photographs as Diasporic Memories: Turkish Cypriots, Home, and Memory - Mariko Izumi: Displaced Memorials: Commemorating the "Comfort Women" in the United States - Raquel Moreira: "Funk Isn't a Trend; It's a Necessity": Favela Funk's Vernacular Discourse and the Struggle for Cultural Legitimation - Contributors - Index.
About the author
Ahmet Atay (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale) is Associate Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster. He is the author of Globalization¿s Impact on Identity Formation: Queer Diasporic Males in Cyberspace (2015) and the co-editor of 11 books, including Queer Communication Pedagogy. His scholarship has appeared in numerous journals and edited books.
Yea-Wen Chen (Ph.D., University of New Mexico) is Associate Professor in the School of Communication at San Diego State University. Dr. Chen has published over 40 works in Communication Monographs, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and Departures in Critical Qualitative Research. Also, she has co-edited Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, 6th Edition (2015).
Alberto González (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is Distinguished University Professor in the School of Media and Communication at Bowling Green State University. He is a co-editor of The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai: Planting the Future (2018) and Our Voices: Essays in Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication, 6th Edition (2015).
Summary
The book provides insights into how places and memories intersect with intercultural conflicts, oppressions, and struggles by which communities make sense of, deal with, and reconcile the past.
