Memory and Narrative
About the Book Series
Studies in Memory and Narrative is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural series which interrogates personal and collective representations of the past. Volumes in the series analyze oral culture and personal narratives/life stories for the distinct perspective they provide on the historical experience of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, working life, colonialism, political allegiances, mass political violence, and nationalism. These works investigate the role played by monuments, museums, art galleries, international criminal tribunals, motion pictures, television, radio, and electronic technologies in disseminating versions of the past that supplement but often contradict personal accounts, whether written or oral. By contrasting the functions of the varied forms of remembrance and their intersections to create regimes of memory, the series promotes a fuller understanding of how remembering and forgetting, patterns of narrative communication, and social practice come together to structure personal and collective identity within overlapping, often competing versions of the past.
Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková
December 31, 2021
In Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents explore the significance of family memory as an analytical tool and a research concept. Family memory is the most important memory community. This volume illustrates the range ...
Narratives of War: Remembering and Chronicling Battle in Twentieth-Century Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Nanci Adler, Remco Ensel, Michael Wintle
June 17, 2019
Narratives of War considers the way war and battle are remembered and narrated across space and time in Europe in the twentieth century. The book reflects on how narratives are generated and deployed, and on their function as coping mechanisms, means of survival, commemorative gestures, historical ...
Sasha Pechersky: Holocaust Hero, Sobibor Resistance Leader, and Hostage of History
1st Edition
By Selma Leydesdorff
June 01, 2018
On October 14, 1943, Aleksandr "Sasha" Pechersky led a mass escape of inmates from Sobibor, a Nazi death camp in Poland. Despite leading the only successful prisoner revolt at a World War II death camp, Pechersky never received the public recognition he deserved in his home country of Russia. This ...
Negotiating Normality: Everyday Lives in Socialist Institutions
1st Edition
By Daniela Koleva
June 30, 2015
This book is about state socialism, not as a political system, but as an "ecosystem" of interactions between the state and the citizens it sought to control. It includes case studies that demonstrate how the major ideological principles of socialism translated into motives guiding people's ...
Dwellers of Memory: Youth and Violence in Medellin, Colombia
1st Edition
By Pilar Riano-Alcala
January 30, 2010
Dwellers of Memory is an ethnographic study of how urban youth in Colombia came to be at the intersection of multiple forms of political, drug-related, and territorial violence in a country undergoing forty years of internal armed conflict. It examines the ways in which youth in the city of ...
Memory Cultures: Memory, Subjectivity and Recognition
1st Edition
Edited
By Katharine Hodgkin
October 31, 2005
In recent years memory has attracted increasing attention. From analyses of electronic communication and the Internet to discussions of heritage culture, to debates about victimhood and sexual abuse, memory is currently generating much cultural interest. This interdisciplinary collection takes a ...
Memory, History, Nation: Contested Pasts
1st Edition
By Susannah Radstone
October 31, 2005
In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority, and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with ...
Memory and Totalitarianism
1st Edition
By Luisa Passerini
May 31, 2005
Understanding Europe's past became an urgent matter with the events of August 1991 in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union. The invasion of Moscow's streets by Russian people rejecting an attempted coup d'etat was the culmination of a process that had been initiated years before and raised crucial ...
Gender and Memory
1st Edition
By Luisa Passerini
May 30, 2005
Gender and Memory brings together contributions from around the world and from a range of disciplines--history and sociology, socio-linguistics and family therapy, literature--to create a volume that confronts all those concerned with autobiographical testimony and narrative, both spoken and ...
Between Generations: Family Models, Myths and Memories
1st Edition
By Daniel Bertaux
April 30, 2005
Between Generations concerns powerful memories that continue to shape the present, but in this case in almost all families throughout the world. What is it that parents pass down to their children? How can we understand the mixture of conscious and unconscious models, myths, and material ...
Migration and Identity
1st Edition
By Andor Skotnes
April 30, 2005
The theme of Migration and Identity is of special concern at a time both of massive worldwide migration and of apparently intensifying national, ethnic, and racial conflicts. Problems of migration and the resulting reconfigurations of social identity are fundamental issues for the twenty-first ...
Living Through the Soviet System
1st Edition
By Paul Thompson
January 11, 2005
For a period of over seventy years after the 1917 revolutions in Russia, talking about the past, either political or personal, became dangerous. The situation changed dramatically with the new policy of glasnost at the end of the 1980s. The result was a flood of reminiscence, almost nightly on ...