ISBN:
9781138826472
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (235 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Approaches to History
Parallel Title:
Print version Beyond Memory : Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Electronic books
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, philosop
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Silence, remembering, and forgetting in Wittgenstein, Cage, and Derrida7 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
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Shell shock, Gallipoli and the generation of silenceConcluding remarks: silence and social life; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
