Memory Studies最新文献_第6页

Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film Thanatographic小说：当代文学和电影中的死亡、哀悼和仪式

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-03 DOI: 10.1177/17506980231188480

Cornelia Ruhe

{"title":"Thanatographical fiction: Death, mourning and ritual in contemporary literature and film","authors":"Cornelia Ruhe","doi":"10.1177/17506980231188480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231188480","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, many authors around the world have taken on the difficult task of commemorating the unmourned dead caused by wars, terrorism or structural violence, or of giving them a literary burial. Their fictions, which I will call thanatographical fiction in the following, play a central role for the collective imaginary in that they provide an archive of knowledge on how violent death and grief are processed. The study of a comparative corpus shows that there is a transcultural and transmedial poetics of grief that serves to frame and channel emotions, to give them a form that allows access to them without sparking further excess. What I aim to demonstrate is that the common grounds of fictions from such diverse places as France, Québec, Senegal and Ukraine are that they can illustrate processes of the economy of emotions: in order to address the subject of violent death, they have to resort to different strategies of emotion control. By modulating emotions, texts and films influence both the regulation of grief and commemoration on one hand, and on the other, the reinforcement of collective identities. They can thus provide an instrument for reflecting on the interaction of grief and violence to gain a better understanding of it. I will thus analyse Wajdi Mouawad’s tetralogy of plays Le sang des promesses, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s novel De purs hommes, Valentyn Vasyanovych’s film Atlantis and Julie Ruocco’s novel Furies to elaborate a first draft of a thanatographical poetics of grief.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42922527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Book review: Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective 书评：《家庭记忆：全球视野下的实践、传播和使用》

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176043b

Ashley Barnwell

引用次数: 1

Book review: The Politics of Trauma and Integrity: Stories of Japanese “Comfort Women” 书评：《创伤与正直的政治：日本“慰安妇”的故事》

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176043c

Kanchan Panday

引用次数: 0

Book review: Philosophical Perspectives on Memory and Imagination 书评:记忆与想象的哲学视角

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176043a

J. C. Camillo

引用次数: 0

Book review: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory 书评:当前记忆哲学的争论

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 DOI: 10.1177/17506980231176043

Marta Caravà

{"title":"Book review: Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory","authors":"Marta Caravà","doi":"10.1177/17506980231176043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231176043","url":null,"abstract":"Current Controversies in Philosophy of Memory is a specialist book that aims to offer to researchers, teachers and students an ‘up-to-date discussion of some of the main theories, arguments, and problems’ in the philosophy of memory (p. 3). To this end, the editors have selected only contributions on episodic memory, that is, the ability to remember past events or experiences. In my view, this selective focus is reasonable and justified. There is increasing interest in episodic memory in philosophy, but several important questions have not received enough attention in the growing literature on the topic. This book investigates some of these previously underexplored questions, each addressed by two authors offering different perspectives on them. In addition to the editors’ introduction, which carefully contextualises these questions in the broader literature, the book has six parts, each including two chapters, a list of further readings and a final section with study questions. Part 1 of the volume addresses the question: What is the relationship between memory and imagination? This question is central to the debate between two prominent theories of memory: the causal theory and the simulation theory. The causal theory holds that remembering requires a causal connection to a past event via a memory trace – a brain modification caused by an experience – while the simulation theory claims that this requirement is not necessary. Because of their different takes on this causal requirement, the causal theory is usually associated with the idea that memory and imagination are two different things, while the simulation theory is associated with the idea that remembering is a form of imagining. Part I evaluates whether this presentation of this debate is accurate. In chapter 1, Peter Langland-Hassan uses the notion of constructive imagination to investigate the constraints that different types of memory traces impose on remembering. He explains how, by adopting the prop theory of memory traces, we can explain remembering as a form of constructive imagination while endorsing the causal theory. César Schirmer dos Santos, Christopher McCarroll and André Sant’Anna take a different stance on this debate (chapter 2). They claim that it is not all about descriptions of the mechanisms of remembering but is rather prescriptive in character: it is about the right concepts we should use to track memory and imagination. According to the authors, whether memory and imagination are the same thing depends on the prescriptive concepts of memory and imagination we endorse. These chapters do not solve the current debate on the relationship between memory and imagination but certainly advance it. They show that so far it has implied too sharp distinctions between the causal theory and the simulation theory and that, with proper conceptual analysis, we can identify what is at stake in this debate more clearly. 1176043 MSS0010.1177/17506980231176043Memory StudiesBook review","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"1020 - 1023"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47020200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

‘I can’t remember how many I killed’. . .: Child soldiers and memory work in YouTube “我不记得我杀了多少人”……:儿童兵和记忆在YouTube上的工作

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/17506980231188478

Birgit Bräuchler

引用次数: 0

Race against time: “9/11: One Day in America” and the amnesia of America’s archive 与时间赛跑：“9/11:美国的一天”与美国档案的失忆

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-29 DOI: 10.1177/17506980231188481

Liz Hallgren

{"title":"Race against time: “9/11: One Day in America” and the amnesia of America’s archive","authors":"Liz Hallgren","doi":"10.1177/17506980231188481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231188481","url":null,"abstract":"I engage in a discourse analysis of National Geographic’s docuseries “9/11: One Day in America” to argue that the series’ multi-layered effort at commemoration, geared as a long-awaited “full” telling of the 9/11 story, but committed to honoring a specific group of victims and survivors, is enabled by a disorienting temporality that raises questions about the role of national memorials and archives at this moment. Temporality is essential to the development of narrative, and with narrative a central element in the making of memory worlds, temporality cannot be underestimated as a key factor in how memories take shape. “One Day” depends on structural instantiations of time to develop its narrative as authentic memory, reflecting a paradoxical linear yet circular pattern that simultaneously authenticates and undermines the veracity of the story it tells. “One Day” transports viewers into lower Manhattan and through the events of 9/11 via a vividly illustrated timeline. But while a linear version of time in “One Day” supports the telling of survivor stories and the memorialization of the dead, the overarching effect of the timeline for viewers is circular, transporting viewers back in time to 2001 and a state of fear and confusion, forcing collective memory to exist in a repetitive temporality that excuses a turn away from history and consequences. The resulting circular mechanism for commemoration allows cultural institutions, like the ones represented in “One Day,” to emphasize the past at the expense of more critical understandings of both history and the future.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47865239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-19 对抗公众遗忘：新冠肺炎时代的记忆与政策学习

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI: 10.1177/17506980231184563

Sydney Goggins

{"title":"Contesting public forgetting: Memory and policy learning in the era of Covid-19","authors":"Sydney Goggins","doi":"10.1177/17506980231184563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231184563","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines scholarship on public forgetting and its implications for post-disaster recovery and policy learning to theorize how tendencies toward structural amnesia risk limit policy learning as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold and as the climate crisis exacerbates the risk of new global health crises. This article will contribute to memory studies by advancing a theory of how public forgetting leads to a cascade of impacts on policy and social well-being. Building on Beiner’s work on social memory, scholarship on the politics of memory, and research on post-disaster policy learning, I show that institutional forgetting implicitly places individual and collective memories outside the public sphere in which policymaking occurs. This discourages commemorative practices that constitute the traumatic past and present of the pandemic as creating responsibilities on the part of policymakers and governments for increased protections in the present and policy learning in the future. Constituting the Covid-19 pandemic as a necessary subject of public memory, in contrast, allows individuals and communities to assert rights to restitution and accountability for the policy failures that led to profound racial and socioeconomic disparities in risks of infection, severe illness, and death. Through engaging with the memory advocacy by the nonprofit groups the We Must Count Coalition, Marked by Covid, and the Covid-19 Longhauler Advocacy Project, I illustrate how commemorative practices by social movements illuminate the policy implications of contesting how collective traumas will be remembered.","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45901871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 1

Memory and time in early Quakerism 早期贵格会的记忆与时间

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-25 DOI: 10.1177/17506980231184580

H. Hinds

引用次数: 0

Book review: National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times 书评:《民族记忆:在民粹主义时代建构身份》

IF 1.1 2区心理学

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-22 DOI: 10.1177/17506980231184541

Zizhan Yao, D. Mortensen, K. Multhaup

{"title":"Book review: National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times","authors":"Zizhan Yao, D. Mortensen, K. Multhaup","doi":"10.1177/17506980231184541","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231184541","url":null,"abstract":"In 1949, George Orwell proclaimed in his dystopian novel, 1984, that “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past” (p. 44). Almost three-quarters of a century later, the global trend of championing nationalism as the answer to twenty-first-century problems makes this quote resonate. Donald Trump’s nostalgic appeal to America’s past greatness, Vladimir Putin’s myth-making of Russian history, and Xi Jinping’s reinterpretation of China’s role during WWII highlight how political leaders have employed nationalist historical narratives in “top-down state efforts to control national memory” (p. xii). During this era of “new nationalism,” how do scholars from diverse disciplines define and analyse national memory? How do they frame the relationship between past, present, and future when examining how different countries (re) shape their collective memories? In National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist Times, a multidisciplinary team of scholars explores “national memory in the hopes of addressing its powers and its dangers” (p. xii). National Memories attempts to spark conversation across disciplinary silos. Noting the “transcultural turn” (p. xi) in memory studies, the editors incorporate research on national memory and identity from Asia and Europe, in addition to including US-based studies. Roediger and Wertsch organize the volume into five sections; each contains four to five chapters and is prefaced by a brief introduction. Sections I and II, Historical Origins of National Memory and Populism in America and Case Studies of National Memory and Populism in America employ historical, ethnographic, and textual analysis to investigate large questions about when a nation begins, how forgetting is a critical component of nation building, and how competing narratives coexist as threads in the complex tapestry of national memory. Sections III and IV, Comparative Studies of National Memory and Populism from Around the World and Case Studies of National Memory and Populism from Around the World, document cross-cultural differences in collective memory. These sections use diverse methodologies to explore wide-ranging topics, such as historical charters, collective narcissism, implicit mnemonic devices within collective memories, national communities’ complicated emotions toward the past, and bottom-up resistance to top-down control. In the final section, Conceptual Frameworks for the Study of National Memory and Populism, the reader is invited to consider fundamental mechanisms and theories that undergird the formation of national memory. These include the efficacy of symbolic tools in mass coordination, the formation and propagation of memory in smaller social groups, the role of motivational and cognitive factors in facilitating memory formation, and the power of narratives in shaping national memory. 1184541 MSS0010.1177/17506980231184541Memory StudiesBook reviews book-review2023","PeriodicalId":47104,"journal":{"name":"Memory Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"1383 - 1387"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2023-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45508813","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0