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Zusatztext Critical Memory Studies opens up a wide spectrum of new approaches to memory in culture. The essays collected in this anthology address a range of current challenges to memory – from racism and environmental degradation to monument wars and digital transformation. Critical Memory Studies demonstrates that what brings together scholars and practitioners from diverse backgrounds in the field of memory studies is their keen sense of the necessity and the possibilities of an ongoing critique of memory. Informationen zum Autor Brett Ashley Kaplan directs the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies and is a Professor in the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her novel, Rare Stuff, was published in 2022 and she is the author of Unwanted Beauty, Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory, and Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth. Klappentext Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection creatively delves into the multiple aspects of this wide-ranging field. Contributors explore race-ing memory; environmental studies and memory; digital memory; monuments, memorials, and museums; and memory and trauma. Organised around 7 sections, this book examines memory in a global context, from Kashmir and Chile to the US and UK. Featuring contributions on topics such as the Black Lives Matter movement; the AIDS crisis; and memory and the anthropocene, this book traces and consolidates the field while analysing and charting some of the most current and cutting-edge work, as well as new directions that could be taken. Vorwort Showcasing cutting edge research in and creative approaches to the exponentially growing field of memory studies, this collection will involve a selection of the most interesting established and emerging scholars and creative writers. Zusammenfassung Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection creatively delves into the multiple aspects of this wide-ranging field. Contributors explore race-ing memory; environmental studies and memory; digital memory; monuments, memorials, and museums; and memory and trauma. Organised around 7 sections, this book examines memory in a global context, from Kashmir and Chile to the US and UK. Featuring contributions on topics such as the Black Lives Matter movement; the AIDS crisis; and memory and the anthropocene, this book traces and consolidates the field while analysing and charting some of the most current and cutting-edge work, as well as new directions that could be taken. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Brett Ashley Kaplan PART I Race-ing Memory 1. Critical Black Memory as Curatorial Praxis and Collective Care La Tanya S. Autry 2. The Memory of Race Sonali Thakkar 3. The Memory of Racial Terror: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum Marita Sturken PART II Environmental Memory 4. Toward Slow Memory Studies Jenny Wüstenberg 5. Ecological Mourning: Living with Loss in the Anthropocene Stef Craps 6. Memory and Environmental Racism in the American Gulf States Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson 7. Widow’s Walk Caroline Morris PART III Conceptualizing Memory Studies 8. Memory in Liquid Time Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer 9. A Case for Melancholy Angelika Bammer 10. Memory Images, between Discourse and Representation Philippe Mesnard PART IV Monuments, Memorials, Museums, Memoirs11. Negative Spaces and the Play of Memory: The Memorial Art of Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz James E. Young 12. Spir...
