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Selected Bibliography on Cultural Memory
One of the aims of the site is to direct
users to writing on Cultural Memory in general that offers a theoretical framework
adequate to support their developing research. The field of reading in Cultural
Memory is of course immense. This Selected Bibliography was composed of core
texts from the IGRS's MA in Cultural Memory General Reading List, plus contributions
from academics consulted during the development of the website. If you are
aware of texts that provide an excellent framework for the study of Cultural
Memory but are missing from this list, please email me at Katia.pizzi@sas.ac.uk
Andrieu, Claire, Sarah Gensburger, Jacques Semelin (eds.) Resisting Genocide. The Multiple Forms of Rescue (Columbia University Press, 2011).
Antze, Paul and Michael Lambek (eds.),
Tense Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory (London: Routledge, 1996).
Bal, Mieke, Jonathan Crewe and Leo
Spitzer (eds.), Acts of Memory: Cultural Recall in the Present (Hanover,
NH & London: University Press of New England, 1999).
Bennett, Tony, The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (London: Routledge, 1995).
Bevernage, Berber, History, Memory and State-sponsored violence. Time and Justice,
(Routledge, 2011).
Boswell, David and Jessica Evans
(eds.), Representing the Nation: A Reader, Histories, Heritage and
Museums (London: Routledge, 1999).
Candau, J., Anthropologie
de la mémoire (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1996).
Caruth, Cathy (ed.), Trauma:
Explorations in Memory (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1995).
Certeau, Michel de, The
Practice of Everyday Life trans. Steven F. Rendall (Berkeley CA: University
of California Press, 2002).
Cohen-Pfister,
Laurel and Dagmar Wienroeder-Skinner (eds.). Victims and Perpetrators 1933-1945. (Re)Presenting the Past in Post-Unificaton Culture. (Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2006).
Connerton, Paul, How Societies
Remember (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
---, How Modernity Forgets (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
.
Crownshaw, Rick, Jane Kilby and Anthony Rowland (eds.), The Future of Memory (Berghahn, 2010).
Crownshaw, Richard, The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies, 2010.
Crinson, M. ed. Urban Memory: History and Oblivion in the Modern City (London: Routledge, 2004)
D'Haen Theo and Patricia Krüs (eds.), The Proceedings of the XVth Conference of the International Comparative
Literature Association, 'Literature as Cultural Memory' 10 vols. (Amsterdam
and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2000).
The volumes are:
1. Nation building
2. The colonizer and the colonized
3. The conscience of humankind: literature and traumatic experiences
4. Gendered memories
5. Genres as repositories of cultural memory
6. Methods for the study of cultural memory
7. Reconstructing cultural memory: translation, scripts, literacy
8. Intercultural studies
9. Travel writing and cultural memory
10. Images of Westerners in Chinese and Japanese literature
Eaglestone, Robert and Anthony Rowland (eds.), special edition of Critical Survey on Holocaust poetry (2009).
Erikson, Kai T., A New Species
of Trouble: Explorations in Disaster, Trauma, and Community (New York : Norton,
1994).
Erll, Astrid, Ansgar Nuenning in collaboration with Sara B. Young (eds), Cultural memory studies : an international and interdisciplinary handbook. (Berlin; New York: Walter de Gruyter, c2008)
Forty, Adrian and Susanne Kühler
(eds.), The Art of Forgetting (Oxford: Berg, 1999).
Freud, Sigmund, ‘Mourning
and melancholia’, On Metapsychology, vol 11 Penguin Freud Library (London:
Penguin, 1984).
Gildea, Robert, The Past
in French History (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994).
Graham, Brian, Peter Howard (eds.) The Ashgate research companion to heritage and identity.
(Aldershot: Ashgate, c2008.)
Greenberg, Reesa, Bruce W. Ferguson
and Sandy Nairne (eds.), Thinking about Exhibitions (London: Routledge,
1996).
Halbwachs, Maurice, The
Collective Memory (New York: Harper and Row, 1980); French original La Mémoire
collective (Paris, 1950).
Hall, Martin, Noeleen Murray and Nick Shepherd (eds.) Desire Lines: Space, Memory and Identity in the Post-Apartheid City (London: Routledge, 2007).
Hallam, Elizabeth and Jenny Hockey
(eds.), Death, Memory and Material Culture (Oxford: Berg, 2001).
Hirsch, Marianne, Family
Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory (Cambridge, Mass: & London:
Harvard University Press, 1997)
Hodgkin, Katherine and Susannah Radstone
(eds.), Contested Pasts: The Politics of Memory (Routledge: London,
2003).
Homans, Peter (ed.), Symbolic
Loss: The Ambiguity of Mourning and Memory at Century’s End (Charlottesvill
and London: University Press of Virginia, 2000).
Huyssen, Andreas, Twilight
Memories: Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia (London: Routledge, 1995).
Irwin-Zarecka, Iwona, Frames
of Remembrance: Social and Cultural Dynamics of Collective Memory (New Brunswick
and London: Transaction Publishers, 1993).
Kilby, Jane, Violence and the Cultural Politics of Trauma (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2007).
Kuhn, Annette, An Everyday
Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (London and New York: IB Tauris, 2002).
Kwint, Marius, Christopher Breward
and Jeremy Aynsley (eds.), Material Memories: Design and Evocation
(Oxford: Berg, 1999).
Marcus, Laura (ed.), Sigmund
Freud’s ‘The Interpretation of Dreams’ (Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1999).
Labanyi, Jo ‘Historias
de víctimas: La memoria histórica y el testimonio en la España
contemporánea’, in Óscar Cornago (ed.), Prácticas
de poder y estrategias de resistencia en la España democrática,
dossier in Iberoamericana 6 (2006), 87-98
--- ‘Memory and Modernity
in Democratic Spain: The Difficulty of Coming to Terms with the Spanish Civil
War’, Poetics Today 28.1 (2007), 990-116
--- ‘Teaching history
through memory work: issues of memorialization in representations of the Spanish
civil war’, in Teaching the Spanish Civil War, ed. Noël Valis (New
York: Modern Language Association, 2007), 436-47
--- ‘Cinema and the
Mediation of Everyday Life in 1940s and 1950s Spain’, in Margaret Topping
and Guyda Armstrong (eds), Alternative Voices in European Cinema, monographic
issue of New Readings 8 (2007) (e-journal, http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/euros/newreadings/volume8/index.html)
--- ‘O cine como memoria
/ A memoria do cine’, in Plan Rosebud: Sopbre imaxes, lugares e políticas
de memoria, ed. María Ruido (Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia/Centro
Galego de Arte Contemporánea, 2008), 177-90 (published trilingually
in Galician-Spanish-English)
--- ‘The languages
of silence: historical memory, generational transmission, and witnessing in
contemporary Spain’, in Debra Kelly and Gill Rye (eds), The Witness
and the Text, monographic issue of Journal of Romance Studies 9.3 (2009) (in
press).
--- ‘Testimonies
of repression: methodological and political issues’, in Unearthing Franco’s
Legacy: Mass Graves and the Recuperation of Historical Memory in Spain, ed.
Carlos Jerez-Ferrán and Samuel Amago (South Bend: Notre Dame University
Press, 2009).
Levinson, Sanford, Written
in Stone: Public Monuments in Changing Societies (Durham, North Carolina:
Duke University Press, 1998).
Levy, Daniel and Natan Sznaider, Holocaust and Memory in a Global Age (Temple University Press, 2006)
----, Human Righhts and Memory (Penn State University, 2010)
Markowitsch, Hans J. & Harald Welzer, The Development of Autobiographical Memory.
(London: Psychology Press, 2009)
Martin, Luther H., Huck Gutman and
Patricia H. Hutton (eds.), Technologies of the Self: A Seminar with
Michel Foucault (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988).
Matsuda, Matthew K., The
Memory of the Modern (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).
Mills, Amy, Streets of Memory: Landscape, Tolerance, and National Identity in Istanbul (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2010).
Nora, Pierre, Realms of
Memory (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996-8); French original Les
Lieux de mémoire (Paris: Gallimard, 1984).
Noiriel, Gérard,
'Immigration: amnesia and memory', French Historical Studies 19(2) (1995),
367-80.
Norkunas, M., Monuments
and Memory, Monuments and Memory: History and Representation in Lowell, Massachusetts
(Washington DC: Smithsonian, 2002).
Novick, Peter, The Holocaust
and Collective Memory (London: Bloomsbury, 2001).
Perks, Robert and A. Thomson (eds.),
The Oral History Reader (London: Routledge, 1997).
The Personal Narratives Group (eds.),
Interpreting Women's Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives (Bloomington,
Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1989).
Radstone, Susannah (ed.),
Memory and Methodology (Oxford: Berg, 2000).
Rosenstone, Robert A. ,
'History in images/history in words: reflections on the possibility of really
putting history onto film', American Historical Review 93(5) (1988), 1173-1185.
See <http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/classics/rr0499/rrrr6a.htm>
for online version.
Rorato, Laura and Anna Saunders, The Essence and the Margin: National Identities and Collective Memories in Contemporary European Culture (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2009.
Rothberg, Michael, Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization (Stamford University Press, 2009).
Rowland, Antony, Holocaust Poetry: Awkward Poetics in the Work of Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2005).
Samuel, Raphael, Theatres
of Memory (London: Verso, 1994).
Steedman, Carolyn, Landscape
for a Good Woman (London: Viking, 1986).
Sturken, Marita, The Vietnam
War, the AIDS epidemic and the Politics of Remembering (Berkeley CA: University
of California Press, 1997).
Taylor, Diane, The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas. (Duke University Press, 2003).
Terdiman, Richard, Present
Past: Modernity and the Memory Crisis (Ithaca and London: Cornell University
Press, 1993).
Thomson, Alistair, 'Moving
Stories: Oral History and Migration Studies', Oral History 27(1-2) (spring
1999), 25-37.
Tilley, Christopher, A Phenomenology
of Landscape: Places, Paths and Monuments (Oxford: Berg, 1994). See also other
texts in this series 'Exploring Anthropology'.
Young, James E., The Texture
of Memory: Holocaust Memorials and Meaning (London: Yale University Press,
1993).
Wahnich, Sophie, Barbara Lášticová and Andrej Findor (eds.) Politics of collective memory : cultural patterns of commemorative practices in post-war Europe. (Berlin: Lit; London: Global, 2008).
Wilson, Colette, Paris and the Commune 1871-1878: The Politics of Forgetting (Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2007).
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Libraries and Special Collections
British
Library
Besides
its huge collection of print materials the British Library also holds an extensive
archive of oral history. If you are in a licensed UK higher or further education
institution you can access the sound archive online, download and listen to
recordings and add notes and tags. For direct access to the sound archive
click here.
For an extensive list of links to oral history projects in Ireland and the
UK, the USA and the rest of the world please click here.
Fondo
Young Collection
An online catalogue giving details of the Università
della Repubblica di San Marino’s Fondo Young collection of books, articles
and memorabilia on the theme of memory and mnemonics. This is based primarily
on the collection of American Morris N. Young, which the University acquired
in 1991. The website is only available in Italian.
Library
of Congress
The Library of Congress has a section on American Memory
which describes and gives access to a wealth of artefacts, including those
relating to immigrant communities. Emerging American recognition of conjoined
histories has led to the setting-up of some projects with Spanish and Portuguese
links, such as the Parallel Histories Project, which links the Library of Congress to Biblioteca
Nacional de España. The libraries’ shared digital projects
tend to favour patrimonic versions of history and memory, but collections
such as The
Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures begin to offer access to cultural
memory as rendered in more popular media.
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project
The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers is a project dedicated to bringing Eleanor Roosevelt's writings (and radio and television appearances) on democracy and human rights before an audience as diverse as the ones she addressed.
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/
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Journals and Special Issues
Bearing Witness. Between History and Memory
Three times a year the Fondation Auschwitz / Mémoire d'Auschwitz publishes its journal (which has existed for 25 years), to publicize the most recent multi-discipliary research on the Nazi camps and the genocide of the Jews and Gypsies.
Changing
focus: family photography and American Jewish identity,
The Scholar and Feminist Online, 1(3) (winter 2003)
Special edition of The Scholar and Feminist Online (published by the Barnard Centre for Research on Women). Edited by Laura Levitt,
in response to Marianne Hirsch’s book Family Frames: Photography,
Narrative, and Postmemory (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997).
The publication offers scholarly analysis of issues relating to cultural memory,
but also uses the Internet itself as a medium of exploration and representation,
with the inclusion of online installations, such as Michelle Citron’s Jewish
Looks.
History & Memory
History & Memory aims to explore not only official representations of the past in public monuments and commemorations but also the role of oral history and personal narratives, the influence of the new media in shaping historical consciousness, and the renewed relevance of history writing for emerging nations and social conflicts.
Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies
The Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies is a bi-annual international peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to the study of the relationship between literature and trauma.
Journal
of Romance Studies, 3 (1) (spring 2003)
Contains several excellent articles relating to the exploration of Cultural
Memory within Romance Studies in particular. Abstracts and notes on contributors
are available as a pdf download. Members of Berghahn Journals can read full-length
articles online.
Memory
Studies
Memory Studies is an international peer
reviewed journal which examines the social, cultural, cognitive, political
and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and
societies remember, and forget. The journal responds to and seeks to shape
public and academic discourses on the nature, manipulation, and contestation
of memory in the contemporary era.
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Online Texts
Please note, the University of London bears no responsibility
for the legal implications of downloading work from any of the following sites.
Users should check each site's indvidual policy.
Benjamin, Walter, The Walter Benjamin Research
Syndicate provide a list of links to online versions of several of Benjamin's
texts both in English and German. Click here.
Foucault, Michel, 'Technologies
of the self' in L.H. Martin and others,Technologies of the Self: A Seminar
with Michel Foucault (London: Tavistock 1988) pp.16-49. Click here.
Freud, Sigmund, 'The Interpretation of Dreams'
(1900) Click here.
Halbwachs, Maurice, 'La mémoire collective
et le temps' Cahiers internationaux de sociologie, 1947.
The Université
de Québec à Chicoutimi offers a wide range of digitized
classical sociological texts in French. A direct link to Halbwachs's article
can be found here.
Passerini, Luisa, 'Becoming a Subject in
the Time of the Death of the Subject' (notes for a conference in Bologna 2000).
The lecture is also available as an audiofile. Click here.
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