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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300009403321

Autore

Johnson Erica L

Titolo

Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing / / by Erica L. Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2018

ISBN

9783030020989

3030020983

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (120 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism, , 2634-632X

Disciplina

153.12

809.93353

Soggetti

Literature - Philosophy

America - Literatures

Collective memory

Literary Theory

North American Literature

Memory Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: A Brief Introduction -- Chapter 2: In Theory: Memory as an Affective Archive -- Chapter 3: Memoir and Memory-Traces -- Chapter 4: Cultural Memory, Affect, and Countermonuments -- Chapter 5: Coda: On Memory and Memorial.

Sommario/riassunto

Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art. The book first shows how affect theorists have increasingly complemented more traditional archival research through the use of "academic memoir." This theoretical piece is then applied to memoir works by Caribbean writers Dionne Brand and Patrick Chamoiseau, and the final case study in the book interprets as memorial art Kara Walker's ephemeral 80,000 pound sugar sculpture of 2014. Memory as method; memory as archive; memorial as affect: this book looks at the interplay between archival sources on the one hand, and the affective memories, both



personal and collective, that flow from, around, and into the constantly shifting record of the past. .