LEADER 07015nam 22006972 450 001 9910996693603321 005 20251019235433.0 010 $a9789004692978 010 $a9004692975 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004692978 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31946542 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31946542 035 $a(CKB)37783657300041 035 $a(OCoLC)1506477136 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004692978 035 $a(EXLCZ)9937783657300041 100 $a20250207d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aMemory and the Language of Contention /$fedited by Sophie van den Elzen, Ann Rigney 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLeiden ;$aBoston :$cBrill,$d2025. 210 4$d©2025 215 $a1 online resource (302 pages) 225 1 $aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025 225 1 $aMobilizing Memories ;$v1 311 08$a9789004692961 311 08$a9004692967 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover -- Half Title -- Series Informations -- Title Page -- Copyrights Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Memory and the Language of Contention -- 1 Stakes -- 2 The Memory-Activism Nexus -- 3 Troubling Language and the Linguistic Turn -- 4 Language as a Medium of Memory -- 5 The Language of Contention -- 6 Prospectus -- References -- 1 Activist Memoirs and the Lexicon of Contention -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Changing Contours of Israeli Peace Activism -- 3 The Protest Lexicon in Anti-Occupation Activist Memoirs -- 4 Self-Positioning in Israeli Anti-Occupation Activist Memoirs -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 2 The Blessing of Tainted Memories -- 1 My Story -- 2 Witnessing through the Prism of Language Ideology -- 3 Speaking of Sexual Violence: Discourse-Based Activism -- 4 Sima's Testimony -- 5 Manny's Testimony -- 6 Discussion: Dissenting Memories, Dissenting Voices -- References -- 3 Scabs, Pickets and Camaraderie: Words and Memories of East Midlands Coal Miners -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Memory -- 3 Language and Memory in Oral History -- 4 The Mining Strike and Its Aftermath -- 5 The Pit Talk Projects: Methodology -- 6 Themes -- 7 The Use of the Word 'Camaraderie' -- 8 Talking about the Strike -- 9 Life after the Strike -- 10 Conclusion -- References -- 4 Performing Protest, Performing Memory: Speech Act Theory and January 6 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 American Electoral Context -- 3 Speech Act Theory and Performative Utterances -- 4 Performative Utterances and the Memory-Activism Nexus -- 5 Locutionary Acts -- 6 Illocutionary Acts -- 7 Perlocutionary Effects -- 8 Closing Thoughts -- References -- 5 Reading 'Compañero/a/x' as a Contentious Keyword in Chile: A Bakhtinian Perspective -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Words, Ideology and Speech Genres. 327 $a3 Historical Context: Allende, the Dictatorship, and the Post-Dictatorship -- 4 Allende, el Compañero Presidente -- 5 What Compañero? -- 6 Learning to Say Compañero in Exile -- 7 Reaccentuations: Compañeras and Compañerxs -- 8 Conclusion: Memory and the Future of a Contentious Keyword -- References -- 6 Reclaiming el pueblo -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Thousand Days of Salvador Allende - el pueblo and its Representation -- 3 Operation Clean-Up: the Erasure of el pueblo and the Creation of chilenidad during the Civil-Military Dictatorship -- 4 The 2019 Revolt - 'We Call Ourselves the People Again' -- 5 Delight Lab - New Representations of Past Discourses -- 6 Mercvria - Intersectionality on the Walls -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- 7 Legislating the Historical Resonance of Boycott in Germany -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Global Anti-Nazi Boycott of the 1930s and the Haavara Agreement -- 3 Staatsräson, Memory, and Miracles: Taking Exception to Historical Comparison -- 4 Resisting the Exception -- References -- 8 The Cultural Lives of May 68 Slogans: From Walls to Pages -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Dawning of Revolutionary Slogans: a New Kind of Literature? -- 2 The Textualisation and Iconisation of Slogans: Editorial Gestures and Photo-Texts -- 3 The Posters of the Ex-Atelier Populaire des Beaux-Arts -- 4 Photo-Texts: Graffiti and Inscriptions -- 5 Texts and Books -- 6 Cultural and Political Memory: the Afterlives of May 68 Slogans -- References -- 9 Contestatory Memory Work: Reading Political Slogans in the South African Communist Left -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Slogans as Narrative Emplotment -- 3 The Language of Prophecy: Mayibuye iAfrika! -- 4 The Language of Denunciation: Down with the Slave Laws! -- 5 The Language of Command: Hands off Abyssinia! -- 6 Concluding Comments -- References. 327 $a10 No Gods No Masters: Anarchist mots de mémoire from Titles to T-Shirts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Protest Slogans as Sites of Memory -- 3 Commemoration: 'No Gods No Masters' as Title, Epigraph or Motto -- 4 Commodification of 'No Gods No Masters': from Tombstones to T-Shirts -- 5 Conclusion: from lieux de mémoire to mots de mémoire -- References -- 11 Grammar and its Political Affordances -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Middle Voice: From Grammar to Theory and Philosophy -- 3 On Suffering (vasanizome) -- 4 On Burning (Athens Burns) -- 5 On Imaginative Boredom (varieme effantasta) -- 6 The Wall Writings' Afterlives beyond the 'Crisis Decade' -- References -- Epilogue: Words between Memory and Hope -- References -- Index -- Back Cover. 330 $aHow does language shape the memory of activism? And how do memories, of hope or of repression, inflect the language used by social movements in the present day? This edited volume, featuring international scholars across literary and cultural studies, anthropology, legal studies, and linguistics, shows how memories of activism live in the medium of language. 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