326 results for "Memory studies"
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Introduction: Travel, locatedness, and new horizons in Memory Studies
This introduction outlines new developments in the field of cultural and media memory studies in the wake of the transcultural turn. It pays specific attention to the twofold dynamics of memory’s travel and locatedness. While in recent memory studies discourse there has been a tendency to see…
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Przeszłe przyszłości polskiej pamięci
Review of Justyna Tabaszewska, Pamięć afektywna. Dynamika polskiej pamięci po 1989 roku [Affective Memory: Dynamics of Polish Memory After 1989], Wydawnictwo UMK, Toruń 2022.
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Representing the Holodomor in Children’s Literature: Genocide, Memory, and Pedagogies of Historical Recovery in Katherine Marsh’s The Lost Year
This article examines Katherine Marsh’s The Lost Year (2023a) as a work of children’s historical fiction that mediates the memory of the Holodomor through narrative, pedagogy, and postmemory frameworks. Situating the novel within broader debates on trauma, collective memory, and media literacy, the…
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„Ja tutaj piszę o sobie”. Uwikłania pamięciolożki
What might motivate a researcher in cultural studies to explore memory in an engaged way, how can such engagement be legitimized, and what might be its consequences? Kobielska draws on broader debates on commitment in the humanities in order to describe the most frequent responses to questions…
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La sémiosphère de la mémoire individuelle : un modèle sémiotique et intermédial
…tridimensionnelle. S’inscrivant dans les études sur la mémoire (memory studies), ce modèle convoque en particulier la sémiotique de la culture de Juri Lotman, s’accorde aux principes de la sémiotique peircienne et repose sur une fine compréhension études intermédiales. Les trois dimensions…
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Cancel Culture within the Framework of New Media's Memorial Discourse: A Critical Analysis
The article addresses the issue of historical memory transformation in the digital era. Its aim is to critically analyze the “cancel culture” as a tool for shaping and transmitting historical identity in the digital realm and beyond. The realm of new media where the cancel culture phenomenon…
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“We did not Send You There”: Media Representations of the War in Afghanistan and the Emergence and Practice of Cancel Culture in Post-Soviet Russia
The article is devoted to the problem of transformation of historical memory in the context of digitalization. The aim of the article is to make a critical analysis of the “cancel culture” as one of the tools for the formation and transmission of historical identity in digital space and beyond. The…
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National Identities, Personal Crises: Amnesia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
…emphasis on the interdependence of remembering and forgetting: ideas of memory in nationhood; the depiction of the British landscape; the cognitive process of recognition; and the emotional aspects of remembering. Interdisciplinary in scope, this article uses evidence from psychological studies of…
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THREE TYPES OF NOSTALGIA IN COMPUTER GAMES
…with a wide controversy about nostalgia in the framework of modern memory studies. Further, it is proved that the communicative nature of media memory subordinates the cultural component (in its interpretation by J. Assman). Nostalgia in computer games differs significantly from nostalgia in…
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Remembering the Shipyard Strike
This article focus on how the Gdańsk shipyard strike and the formation of Solidarity have been remembered and observed afterwards, especially in connection with the 30th anniversary in August 2010. The author explores how people create meaning in past events in relation to current interests, and…
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The Politics of Memory: Between History, Identity and Conflict
This article surveys the recent literature on the politics of memory. It sets out the nature of research in this area over the last 25 years and distils its main trends and areas of focus. Investigating monographs and edited volumes published since the year 2000, it gives an overview of a rich and…
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Futuri passati e memorie future. Il caso della diga del Vajont
La notte del 9 ottobre 1963 un’enorme frana cadde nel bacino idroelettrico della diga del Vajont. L’onda generata colpì le comunità di Longarone, Codissago, Erto e Casso insieme ai loro luoghi di vita. L’area coinvolta fu stravolta in modo drastico, ma già da qualche anno erano in corso importanti…
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Revenants in Old Norse literature as embodied memory
Beings that come from the past into the present could be an example par excellence for memory studies. Revenants are an outstanding phenomenon of Old Norse literature that has been researched from many points of view: e.g. those of literary science, historical sociology, anthropology and history of…
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Prehistoric Violence as Difficult Heritage: Sandby Borg – A Place of Avoidance and Belonging
Despite an increased focus on heritage connected to violence within archaeological research projects, there has been no proper focus on the rediscovery of prehistoric massacres, from the perspective of diffi- cult heritage. Most likely, the temporal distance in- volved has led to the assumption…
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“But what a place / to put a piano”: Nostalgic Objects in Robert Minhinnick’s "Diary of the Last Man"
In 2003, Martin Rees referred to the present as “mankind’s final century.” A few years later, Slavoj Žižek wrote that humankind is heading towards “apocalyptic zero-point,” when the ecological crisis will most probably lead to our complete destruction. In his 2017 collection, Diary of the Last Man…
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100 metroren azterketa memoria ikasketen ikuspegitik
…Ramon Saizarbitoria’s novel 100 metro (1976) from the perspective of memory studies. In order to do so, we will describe some key concepts, and also some narratological tools that will give us a means of examining the literary representation of memory, which fulfils different functions in the…
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Krytyka genetyczna jako kulturowa poietyka (nie)pamięci
Antoniuk begins by proposing that genetic criticism (the study of the process of writing) as a scholarly practice has a potential for effective and valuable collaboration with memory studies. In parts two and three he offers a literary critical and sociological analysis of Zbigniew Herbert’s poem…
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How Gylfi’s Illusion Breathes Life into the Sky
…this idea at face value it becomes possible to look at the sky as a memory tool for the world of the gods. Thus everything we have above us in the sky has a mythological name and often a story attached to it, making it easier to remember all the details of the mythology as well as knowing your way…