Kattago - The Ashgate Research Companion to memory studies

THE ASHGATE RESEARCH COMPANION TO MEMORY STUDIES

As for the field of memory studies itself should such a thing exist or be coming about as a more or less coherent enterprise this too is a source of companionship, and the present volume is an outstanding example of it.

From his afterword, Jeffrey K. Olick, University of Virginia, USA

Youll never walk alone in this Companion, memory studies emerges as the story of intellectual companionships. Mixing memoir with memory research in often surprisingly beautiful and gripping ways, nineteen authors from diverse disciplines present new, self-reflective angles to our field.

Astrid Erll, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The Ashgate Research Companions are designed to offer scholars and graduate students a comprehensive and authoritative state-of-the-art review of current research in a particular area. The companions editors bring together a team of respected and experienced experts to write chapters on the key issues in their speciality, providing a comprehensive reference to the field.

Edited by

SIOBHAN KATTAGO

Tallinn University, Estonia

ASHGATE

Siobhan Kattago 2015

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The Ashgate research companion to memory studies / [edited] by Siobhan Kattago.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-5392-5 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-5393-2 (ebook) -

ISBN 978-1-4724-0533-3 (epub) 1. Memory--Sociological aspects. 2. Collective memory.

3. History--Psychological aspects. I. Kattago, Siobhan, 1966

BF378.S65A84 2015

153.12--dc23

2014020763

ISBN 9781409453925 (hbk)

ISBN 9781409453932 (ebk-PDF)

ISBN 9781472405333 (ebk-ePUB)

Introduction: Memory Studies and its Companions
Siobhan Kattago

1 History as an Art of Memory Revisited
Patrick H. Hutton

2 Chateaubriand, Selfhood and Memory
Peter Fritzsche

3 Dialectical Memory: The Intersection of Individual and Collective Memory in Hegel
Angelica Nuzzo

4 Spectral Phenomenology: Derrida, Heidegger and the Problem of the Ancestral
Hans Ruin

5 Continuity and Innovation in the Art of Memory
Luisa Passerini

6 From Collectivity to Collectiveness: Reflections (with Halbwachs and Bakhtin) on the Concept of Collective Memory
Alexandre Dessingu

7 A Unified Approach to Collective Memory: Sociology, Psychology and the Extended Mind
William Hirst and Charles B. Stone

8 Mannheim and the Sociological Problem of Generations: Events as Inspiration and Constraint
Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi

9 Semiotic Theory of Cultural Memory: In the Company of Juri Lotman
Marek Tamm

10 Travel Companions
Mieke Bal

11 Forked no Lightning: Remembering and Forgetting in the Shadow of Big Ben
Stuart Burch

12 Written in Stone: Monuments and Representation
Siobhan Kattago

13 Theories of Memory and the Imaginative Force of Fiction
Julie Hansen

14 Memory and Methodological Cosmopolitanism: A Figurative Approach
Daniel Levy

15 Hannah Arendt and Thomas Paine: Companions in Remembering, Forgetting and Beginning Again
Bradford Vivian

16 Interactions between History and Memory: Historical Truth Commissions and Reconciliation
Eva-Clarita Pettai

17 Post-Stalinist Russia: Memory and Mourning
Alexander Etkind

Afterword
Jeffrey K. Olick

Mieke Bal, a cultural theorist and critic, is based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). Her areas of interest range from biblical and classical antiquity to seventeenth-century and contemporary art and modern literature, feminism and migratory culture. Her many books include Travelling Concepts in the Humanities (2002), A Mieke Bal Reader (2006), Narratology (3rd edn, 2009) and Of What One Cannot Speak (2010). Mieke is also a video artist and occasionally acts as an independent curator. Her new exhibition and film Madame B (with Michelle Williams Gamaker) is currently touring.

Stuart Burch is Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University in the School of Arts and Humanities where he teaches public history and heritage management. He has published articles in Europe-Asia Studies, East European Politics and Societies and International Journal of Heritage Studies, as well as chapters in various books, among them Contested and Shared Places of Memory (2009) and National Museums (2011). His contribution to this volume is the basis for a wider study of London and the politics of memory.

Alexandre Dessingu is Associate Professor of Uses of History and Literacy Studies at the University of Stavanger, Norway, where he teaches cultural memory studies, critical literacy, literary and cultural theory. His research interests focus on cultural and collective memory, cultural representations of the Second World War and the Holocaust, and literary and memory theory (Halbwachs, Bakhtin and Ricoeur). Between 2008 and 2013, he was the leader of the Culture and Memory Studies research project and, since 2014, Dean of Research and Research Education at the University of Stavanger. He is the author of Le Polyphonisme du Roman: Lecture Bakhtinienne de Simenon (2012). Together with Jay Winter, he is currently working on a book, Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance.

Alexander Etkind is Mikhail M. Bakhtin Professor of History of RussianEuropean Relations at the European Institute University in Florence. Before his move to Italy in 2013, he was Professor of Russian Literature and Cultural History at Cambridge University, where he was also a fellow of Kings College and leader of the research project Memory at War: Cultural Dynamics in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. His recent publications include Internal Colonization: Russias Imperial Experience (2011), Remembering Katyn (2012, co-author), Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied (2013) and Memory and Theory in Eastern Europe (2013, co-editor). He is working on a biography of William C. Bullitt, the first American ambassador to the Soviet Union.

Peter Fritzsche is Professor of History at the University of Illinois where he has taught modern European history since 1987. He is the author of numerous books including Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History (2004), Life And Death in the Third Reich