Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies

by Julia Creet (Editor), Andreas Kitzmann (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442620483
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	02/24/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	346
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Julia Creet is an associate professor in the Department of English at York University.

Andreas Kitzmann is an associate professor in the Department of Humanities at York University.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction

Julia Creet:

The Migration of Memory and Memories of Migration

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Section I: The Melancholy of No Return

Zofia Rosinzka:	Emigratory Experience: The Melancholy of No Return	30
Srdja Pavlovic:	Memory for Breakfast	48
Veronika Zangl:	Remigration and Lost Time: Resuming Life After the Holocaust	60
Chowra Makaremi:	The Waiting Zone	81

Section II: Collective Memory Ghettos

Andreas Kitzmann:	Frames of Memory: WWII German Expellees in Canada	111
John Sundholm:	The Cultural Trauma Process, or the Ethics and Mobility of Memory	147
Laurenn Guyot:	Locked in a Memory Ghetto: a Case Study of a Kurdish Community in France	167
Nergis Canefe:	Home in Exile: Politics of Refugeehood in Canadian Muslim Diaspora	196

Section III: The Smell of Flowers and Rotting Potatoes

Mona Lindqvist:	The Flower Girl: a Case Study in Sense Memory	230
Amira Bojadzija-Dan:	Reading Sensation: Memory and Movement in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After	244
Marlene Goldman:	Memory, Diaspora, Hysteria: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace	265

Section IV: Architectures of Memory

Tomasz Mazur:	Value of Memory - Memory of Value: A Mnemonic Interpretation of Socrates' Ethical Intellectualism	294
Luiza Nader:	Migratory subjects: Memory work in Krzysztof Wodiczko's projections and instruments	313
Yvonne Singer:	The Veiled Room	330
Julia Creet:	The Archive as Temporary Abode	354

Bibliography

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