Full Description
Human beings are time travelers. Incessantly, we traverse past, present, and future through a process called collective memory. In Travels in Time, Astrid Erll addresses the question of how collective memory emerges through motion--the movements of people, media, forms, and practices. Grounded in literary, cultural, and media memory studies, this collection of essays undertakes forays into various dimensions of collective memory as traveling memory. It discusses the ways in which families and generations shape and are shaped by the past; how media such as literature, film, and photography make and remake collective memory; or how trauma, flashbulb memories, and implicit memory are interwoven with culture. The essays consider repercussions of recent historical events as well as long-term mnemonic processes, ranging from Greek antiquity to British colonialism in India, and from the First and Second World Wars to migration in Europe, 9/11, and the coronavirus pandemic. Developing a broad perspective on collective memory, this book outlines the horizons of interdisciplinary memory research.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Traveling in Time
Part I: Traveling and Transcultural Memory
Chapter 1: Traveling Memory
Chapter 2: Traveling Memory in European Film
Chapter 3: Homer-A Relational Mnemohistory
Chapter 4: Memory Worlds in Times of Corona
Part II: Memory in Families and Generations
Chapter 5: Locating Family in Memory Studies
Chapter 6: Generation in Literary History: Genealogy, Generationality, Memory
Chapter 7: Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Philipps's In the Falling Snow (2009)
Part III: Memory and Mediation
Chapter 8: Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory
Chapter 9: Remediation across Time, Space, and Cultures: The Indian Rebellion of 1857-58
Chapter 10: Plurimediality and Traveling Schemata: "District Six"
Chapter 11: The Ethics of Premediation in James Joyce's Ulysses
Part IV: Dialogues with Psychology
Chapter 12: The Hidden Power of Implicit Collective Memory
Chapter 13: Ecologies of Trauma
Chapter 14: Flashbulb Memories: An Interdisciplinary Research Program (with William Hirst)
Afterword: Traveling On
Bibliography
Filmography
Index
