Description:
This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. Here authors combine a methodological focus on memory as performance with a theoretical focus on art and popular culture as practices of remembrance. The essays in the book thus analyze what is at stake in the complex processes of remembering and forgetting, of recollecting and disremembering, of amnesia and anamnesis, that make up cultural memory.
Review Quotes:
"Moving from embodied to externalized, from generational to historical and spectral memories, this collection of essays discusses challenging methodological problems that can revitalize the study of memory." -- Aleida Assmann, Universität Konstanz, Germany