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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Memory Studies"”.
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The notion of Guardianship within the oeuvre of W. G. Sebald
… notion belonging to the academic discipline of Memory Studies, and its relation to the work of German academic and writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001). Guardianship is concerned with how memory is interpreted across space and time and how this transmission affects specific characters within Sebald’s …
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Memory and representation of World War II in contemporary British and German fiction: a comparative analysis
… the Second World War in the absence of living memory. I will argue that prose fiction contributes to the interdisciplinary field of what could be loosely called 'memory studies' and that the similarities between British and German fictional responses to the Second World War indicate that there …
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Being and suffering: toward an existentialist understanding of memory, suffering, and violence
… to the psychology and ethical concerns of memory, suffering, and violence. The primary goal is to take up the recent resurgence of existentialist/phenomenological thought and apply it to the fields of memory studies and trauma studies, broadly conceived. The methodology blends those of …
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A convergence of bodies in the Anthropocene: post-dictatorship memory in Patricio Guzmán’s triptych (2010-2020)
… its current interest in the Anthropocene - and Memory Studies (Chapter 2). For now, I note an understanding of the Anthropocene as a geological and social time where human actions have irrevocably altered and affected the earth’s composition. In Chapter 3 (Nostalgia de la luz), Chapter 4 (El …
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Migrating memories: Power and transcultural memory in contemporary South Asian fiction
… questions: First, what effect does power have on memory? Second, how does literature help us “locate” or make visible the processes of memory transmission within and between subaltern groups whose actions are patrolled and, at times, curtailed? These questions are central to the future …
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Making Memory, Making Meaning: Memorial Museums and the Participatory Audience
… examines this meaning-making dynamic in case studies of four memorial museums: The 9/11 Memorial Museum, The Legacy Museum: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, Manzanar National Historic Site, and Carthage Jail. By combining textual analysis of museums with data from visitor-produced materials …
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The Aristocratic Body and the Memory Economy of Church Reform, 900-1300 C.E.
<p>This dissertation examines the “memory economy” of church reform from the late ninth through thirteenth centuries. It argues that monastic communities and aristocratic households of the period used the human body as a touchstone for the discussion of memory as a key stake in the social and …
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"The Ghost of That Ineluctable Past": Trauma and Memory in John Banville's Frames Trilogy
… a series of interconnected novels haunted by the memory of a singular, traumatic event: the senseless murder of an innocent woman at the hands of the Trilogy’s first-person narrator. This thesis project examines the central role that the corresponding themes of trauma and memory play within these …
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The practice of memory: Decolonial resistance in indigenous Chile and the Chilean diaspora
… body and text are entwined – “The Practice of Memory: Decolonial Resistance in Indigenous Chile and the Chilean Diaspora” argues that memory is a crucial site for decolonial resistance. It analyzes memorial practices in 20th and 21st century Chile and the U.S. within a continental American …
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Saints and subverters : the later Covenanters in Scotland c.1648-1682
… in the fields of intellectual history and memory studies, the thesis draws upon a range of cultural artefacts in order to reconsider the intellectual and social dynamics of Covenanting opposition to the Restoration regime. In particular, journals, diaries, memoirs, histories, correspondence …
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Transnational Memory of the Atlantic Slave Trade Today: Modes of Remembering in Three Lusophone Nations
… today. This paper examines the transnational Memory of the Atlantic slave trade today and its modes of remembering through palimpsests of Memory in three Lusophone nations: Angola, Brazil, and Portugal. Using Astrid Erll’s outline (2010) on Memory studies, this thesis argues that there are …
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The empathy imperative : primary narratives in South African history teaching
… literature on history education and memory studies questions this ‘never again’ imperative, pointing out that remembrance does not necessarily lead to redemption. The aim of this research is to conduct a similar exercise by investigating the following paradox within South African …
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MEMORIA, DONNE DI MAFIA E DELL'ANTIMAFIA: RAPPRESENTAZIONI E PRATICHE DI DUE CASI STUDIO
… ricerca si colloca dunque nell’intersezione tra memory studies e studi sulle donne di mafia e dell’antimafia, al fine di contribuire ad arricchire la letteratura riguardante le molteplici declinazioni che la memoria di chi lotta contro la violenza può assumere. In questo quadro si intrecciano le …
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Paměť a historie rodiny Palliardi - dva koncepty studia rodinné minulosti
… methodological approaches of historiography and memory studies. Descendants of the Palliardi family still live in the Czech Republic today and some of its members, including myself, are interested in the family history, keeping it in mind and searching for traces of it in the historical sources …
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An interactive sonic environment derived from commuters' memories of the soundscape: a case study of the London Underground
… of soundscape with contemporary collective memory studies, this research project explores the relationship between commuters and the London Underground (LU) soundscape in order to create an interactive sonic environment on the Internet. The methodology combines fieldwork and artistic work, …
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Narrative Justice Playmaking: A toolkit for transformative theatre
… research across Theatre and Performance Studies, Post-colonial Studies, Caribbean Studies, Women Gender and Sexuality Studies, English, Memory Studies, and Disability Studies. I explore how storytelling impacts people’s lives, realities, and experiences, and unpack the ways in which story …
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La comunità ebraica di Istanbul sospesa tra nostalgia neo-ottomana e memoria repubblicana
Memory studies that since the 1980s have spread in Turkey in relation to the Ottoman Empire have generated a wave of nostalgia for the Ottoman governance and society. At the same time, a political culture has spread which, inspired by reflective nostalgia, places the past, present and future in …
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Persistence of Memory: Revision, Nostalgia, and Resistance in Contemporary American Drama
<p>This dissertation focuses on the usages of memory in contemporary American drama. Analyzing selected mainstream and alternative dramatic texts, The Persistence of Memory is a study of personal and communal reflections of the past within contemporary plays. The introduction provides examples from …
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Post-GDR memory--cultural discourses of loss and assertion in reunified Germany
When considering the blockage of a nuanced GDR memory within post-unification discourses, the historical moment of 1989 can be understood as a moment of loss for East Germans. While post-unification scholarship has addressed questions of GDR identity and generational memory in other post-1989 …
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Remembering, Forgetting, and Artifact Deposition in Late Prehistoric Florida
<p>Material culture plays a fundamental role in memory processes. Artifacts are an important means of both connecting with and cutting ties with a real or imagined past. They can be reminders or symbols of connection to other people, places, things, powers, or memories, making them key components …
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