ISBN:
9781317421344
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (235 pages)
Series Statement:
Routledge Approaches to History
Series Statement:
Routledge Approaches to History Ser
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Dessingué, Alexandre Beyond Memory : Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance
DDC:
901
Keywords:
Collective memory.;Culture.;Memory -- Cross-cultural studies
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Collective memory
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Culture
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Memory -- Cross-cultural studies
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction: remembering, forgetting and silence -- PART I Silences beyond remembering and forgetting -- 1 Colonial and postcolonial silences: listening to Kartini in the Netherlands -- 2 Making museum objects: a silent performance of connection and loss in Solomon Islands -- 3 History, silence and the detective in Alexandr Terekhov's Russian novel Kamennyi most -- 4 Nostalgic histories of war: refugees in Austria-Hungary, 1914-2014 -- PART II The performativity of silence -- 5 The many sounds of Heidegger's silence -- 6 Silence, remembering, and forgetting in Wittgenstein, Cage, and Derrida -- 7 Cold War era silence: the movement of the graves of Soviet prisoners of war in northern Norway -- 8 Strategic silence: political persuasion between the remembered and the forgotten -- PART III Silence as an aesthetic phenomenon -- 9 Between memory and silence, between family and nation: remembering the First World War through Digital Media -- 10 Allegorical silence: The Plague as critical literacy act -- 11 Negotiating memories and silences: museum narratives of transatlantic slavery in England -- 12 Shell shock, Gallipoli and the generation of silence -- Concluding remarks: silence and social life -- Index.
Abstract:
Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance analyses the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It engages with the most recent work in the field by viewing silence as a remedy to the traditionally binary approach to our understanding of remembering and forgetting. The international team of contributors examine case studies from colonialism, war, politics and slavery from across the globe, as well as drawing examples from literature, philosophy and sites of memory to draw three main conclusions. Firstly, that the relationship between remembering and forgetting is relational rather than 'hermetic', and the space between the two is often occupied by silence. Secondly, silence is a force in itself, capable of stimulating more or less remembrance. Finally, that silence is a necessary and key element in the interaction between the human mind and the 'outer world', and enables people to challenge their understanding of art, music, literature, history and memory. With an introduction by the editors discussing Memory Studies, and concluding remarks by Astrid Erll, this collection demonstrates that acceptance and consideration of silence as having both a performative and aesthetic dimension is an essential component of history and memory studies
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