The Future of Memory

Richard Crownshaw, Jane Kilby, Antony Rowland, Richard Crownshaw, Jane Kilby, Antony Rowland

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781845458478
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia del mundo

Memory studies has become a rapidly growing area of scholarly as well as public interest. This volume brings together world experts to explore the current critical trends in this new academic field. It embraces work on diverse but interconnected phenomena, such as twenty-first century museums, shocking memorials in present-day Rwanda and the firsthand testimony of the victims of genocidal conflicts. The collection engages with pressing 'real world' issues, such as the furor around the recent 9/11 memorial, and what we really mean when we talk about 'trauma'.

Index

A

abuse

conscious forgetting of memories of 137–8

ritual abuse 143

sexual abuse 137, 138–9, 149–50, 153, 204, 269

memory of, feminist politics of 140–41

traumatic abuse 142, 147

Adorno, Theodor 118, 195

Aesthetic Theory (Adorno, T.) 118

Agamben, Giorgio 47n1, 51n25, 116–17, 119

Al-Qaeda 243

Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire (1992) 199–200

Aleksiun, Natalia. 34n43

Almond, Darren 71–5

Anderson, Benedict 5, 41

Anderson, David 26

Anecdotal Theory (Gallop, J.) 247

Antelme, Robert 51n24, 116, 117

aporia 12, 116, 177, 258

appropriation 49n11, 151, 157, 163, 170, 173, 185, 195

Arad, Michael 11, 79, 92–4

The Archive and the Repertoire (Taylor, D.) 249

An Archive of Feelings (Cvetkovich, A.) 249, 268–9, 270

Arendt, Hannah 119, 133–4, 185–6, 189–90, 210

Benjamin and 223–5

collapse of witness into silence, perspective on 215–16

cosmopolitan perspective 210

departure, re-enactment of 219–20

history and law, perspective on 212–14

justice and writing 229–31

legal meaning, ‘banality of evil’ and 211–12

mute testimony of 220–23

perspective on Holocaust 214–15

political and traumatic erasures, testimony and totalitarianism, meeting of differing perspectives on 226–9, 232–3n30

revolution, work on 233–4n31

silent history 216–19

traumatic history and emergence of speech 212–14

universalist perspective 210

Argentina 276

Ariel (Plath, S.) 169

Armstrong, Louise 137–8, 140

Ashcroft, John 241

Assmann, Jan 19

Attridge, Derek 118

Augé, Marc 27

Auschwitz 19, 37–8, 41, 117–18, 120, 128, 158–60, 242

childhood trauma, litera...