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Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, and war on individual and collective memory. The ways in which memory affects cultural representation and historical understanding across generations is examined through case studies and theoretical approaches that underscore its mutability.
Memory and Migration is a truly interdisciplinary book featuring the work of leading scholars from a variety of fields across the globe. The essays are collaborative, successfully responding to the central theme and expanding upon the findings of individual authors. A groundbreaking contribution to an emerging field of study, Memory and Migration provides valuable insight into the connections between memory, place, and displacement.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Julia Creet:The Migration of Memory and Memories of Migration 1Section I: The Melancholy of No Return
Zofia Rosinzka:Emigratory Experience: The Melancholy of No Return30Srdja Pavlovic:Memory for Breakfast48Veronika Zangl:Remigration and Lost Time: Resuming Life After the Holocaust60Chowra Makaremi:The Waiting Zone81Section II: Collective Memory Ghettos
Andreas Kitzmann:Frames of Memory: WWII German Expellees in Canada111John Sundholm:The Cultural Trauma Process, or the Ethics and Mobility of Memory147Laurenn Guyot:Locked in a Memory Ghetto: a Case Study of a Kurdish Community in France167
Nergis Canefe:Home in Exile: Politics of Refugeehood in Canadian Muslim Diaspora196Section III: The Smell of Flowers and Rotting Potatoes
Mona Lindqvist:The Flower Girl: a Case Study in Sense Memory230Amira Bojadzija-Dan:Reading Sensation: Memory and Movement in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After244Marlene Goldman:Memory, Diaspora, Hysteria: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace265Section IV: Architectures of Memory
Tomasz Mazur:Value of Memory - Memory of Value: A Mnemonic Interpretation of Socrates' Ethical Intellectualism294Luiza Nader:Migratory subjects: Memory work in Krzysztof Wodiczko's projections and instruments313Yvonne Singer:The Veiled Room330Julia Creet:The Archive as Temporary Abode354Bibliography379
