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The volume presents theoretical frameworks, conceptual explications and concrete research perspectives in the subject area of 'Media of collective memory.' Representatives of various disciplines examine the manifestations, social functions, cultural differences and the historical development of the media of memory from the 17th century to the present day.

Gedächtniskonzepte der Literaturwissenschaft: Theoretische Grundlegung und Anwendungsperspektiven

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In diesem Band werden literaturwissenschaftliche Gedächtniskonzepte erstmals systematisch erfasst und unter wissenschaftsgeschichtlichem, theoretischem und methodischem Gesichtspunkt dargestellt. Das Spektrum der vorgestellten Zugänge zum Zusammenhang von Literatur und Gedächtnis reicht von klassischen literaturwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen (Metaphernforschung, Topik-Forschung, Intertextualitätstheorien, Gattung und Gedächtnis, Kanonforschung) über narratologische und mediologische Konzepte - wie 'Mimesis', 'Zeit', 'Medialität' und 'Intermedialität' - bis hin zu innovativen interdisziplinären Synthesen von literaturwissenschaftlicher Gedächtnisforschung und den Gedächtniskonzepten der Kulturwissenschaften, der Kognitionspsychologie, Systemtheorie und Geschlechterforschung. Die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger leisten damit einen genuin diszplinären Beitrag zu der disziplinübergreifend geführten Diskussion um Gedächtnis und Erinnerung, rücken Literatur als konstitutiven Bestandteil der kulturellen Erinnerungspraxis in den Blick und zeigen wichtige Anknüpfungspunkte für einen kulturwissenschaftlichen Dialog auf.

Pluspunkte:

Wegweisender Sammelband zu Gedächtnistheorien und -konzepten in der Literaturwissenschaft
Knüpft an das in allen Kulturwissenschaften derzeit intensiv diskutierte Paradigma "Kulturelles Gedächtnis" an
Mit Beiträgen international renommierter Gedächtnisforscher
Wertvolle Fortsetzung der neuen Reihe "Media & Cultural Memory"

Erinnerung – Identität – Narration: Gattungstypologie und Funktionen kanadischer "Fictions of Memory"

Der vielschichtige Zusammenhang zwischen Erinnerung, Identität und Narration ist im aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Diskurs ebenso allgegenwärtig wie in der zeitgenössischen Erzählliteratur. Ziel der Studie ist es, die bislang nur vage konturierte Begriffstrias systematisch zu erfassen und für die literaturwissenschaftliche Gedächtnisforschung fruchtbar zu machen. Durch eine Verknüpfung von Gedächtnistheorien, Erzähltheorie und Funktionsgeschichte wird erstmals eine Typologie der Gattung der Fictions of Memory entworfen, die das Spektrum literarischer Erinnerungs- und Identitätskonstruktionen beschreibbar macht. Am Beispiel zeitgenössischer kanadischer Romane (u.a. von Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Alistair MacLeod, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler und Jane Urquhart) wird diese Bandbreite eindrucksvoll dokumentiert und gezeigt, dass und wie Fictions of Memory einen eigenständigen Beitrag zur Konstitution und Reflexion von Gedächtnis leisten.

Mythosaktualisierungen: Tradierungs- und Generierungspotentiale einer alten Erinnerungsform

Was macht Mythen für Erinnerungskulturen attraktiv? Wie lässt sich ‚das Mythische‘ und dessen Anpassungsfähigkeit als Erfolgskonzept beschreiben? Mythosaktualisierungen betreffen nicht nur mythische Inhalte, sondern auch ganz wesentlich die Medien mythisierenden Erinnerns sowie den Status dieses Erinnerungsmodus – z.B. im Verhältnis zu Geschichte oder individueller Erfahrung. Mythen existieren nicht an sich und können auch nicht in einer wie auch immer zu denkenden ‚Reinform‘ erinnert werden. Sie sind nicht nur Objekte des kulturellen Gedächtnisses, sondern als spezifische Verfahren der Erinnerung mit ihrer medialen Erscheinungsweise derart verschmolzen, dass Tradierung und Generierung performativ im Erinnerungsvollzug ineinander greifen. Dieses Simultan von Weitergabe und Stiftung von Erinnerung zeigt der vorliegende Band aus literatur- und medienwissenschaftlicher, kommunikationswissenschaftlicher, politologischer und geschichtswissenschaftlicher Perspektive auf. Dabei geht es programmatisch nicht nur um Mythen, deren Ursprung in der Antike liegt, sondern auch um solche rezenterer Entstehungskontexte – um auf diese Weise zu vermeiden, Mythosaktualisierungen auf eine rein inhaltliche Ebene zu reduzieren und eine bis heute produktive Erinnerungsform auf einen exklusiven Entstehungszeitraum ‚echter Mythen‘ zu verweisen.

Gesellschaftliche Erinnerung: Eine medienkulturwissenschaftliche Perspektive

Das Themenfeld „Kulturelles Gedächtnis“ bzw. „Erinnerungskulturen“ boomt in den Kulturwissenschaften. Obwohl der enge Zusammenhang zwischen Medien und gesellschaftlichen Erinnerungsprozessen stets betont wird, bleiben bisherige Konzepte hier oft vage, und insbesondere die Forschung zu gesellschaftlicher Erinnerung in Zeiten moderner Medientechnologien steht noch am Anfang.

Der Band setzt an dieser Diagnose an und rückt den Zusammenhang von Medien, Kultur und gesellschaftlicher Erinnerung in der Gegenwart in den Mittelpunkt eines neuen Theorieangebots. Aufbauend auf einer Systematisierung und Kritik bisheriger Entwürfe wird eine medienkulturwissenschaftliche Terminologie und Modellierung von Gedächtnis und Erinnerung vorgeschlagen, die an den bisherigen Diskurs anschließt und zugleich durch eine Integration kommunikationswissenschaftlicher Überlegungen neue Perspektiven eröffnet.

Übung und Affekt: Formen des Körpergedächtnisses

Mit dem Thema „Körpergedächtnis“ wird ein Problem in den Blick genommen, das für die abendländische Kultur zentral ist: die Beziehung von Körper und Geist. Denn das Gedächtnis wird seit jeher an der Schnittstelle physiologischer und mentaler Prozesse angesiedelt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes fokussieren den Körper als Medium des Gedächtnisses unter zwei Gesichtspunkten: Sie fragen einerseits nach den Institutionen und Praktiken der Zurichtung des Menschen und damit (im Anschluss an Nietzsche) nach der gewaltsamen Einübung eines körperlichen Gedächtnisses; der Körper erscheint hier als kulturelles Gedächtnis sozialer Disziplinierung. Andererseits thematisieren sie den kranken und/oder leidenschaftlichen Körper (mit Freud und Warburg) als affektives Gedächtnis eines Anderen der Kultur, d.h. als Artikulationsmedium des im Zivilisationsprozess Unterdrückten und Ausgegrenzten. Übung und Affekt, die beiden Leitbegriffe des Bandes, gehören dabei eng zusammen: Im selben historischen Prozess, in dem sich die als körperlich-seelische Einheit verstandene Übung zur rein körperlich-mechanischen Disziplinierung verengt, erscheinen die Leidenschaften als Symptom jener verlorenen Einheit, die gleichwohl von Anfang an eine bloß imaginäre war.

Literarhistorische Filmbiographien: Autorschaft und Literaturgeschichte im Kino. Mit einer Filmographie 1909–2007

1909 in den USA und 1912 in Deutschland gab es die ersten Biographien über Autorfiguren im Kino zu sehen. Die literarhistorische Filmbiographik hat seither eine reiche Tradition ausgeprägt, die in dieser Studie erstmals in Längs- und Querschnitten untersucht wird. So genannte „Dichterfilme“ entwerfen nicht nur variable Konzepte moderner Autorschaft, sondern sie schreiben auch an einer populären und intermedial narrativierten Literaturgeschichte mit. Autorschaft erweist sich dabei als Effekt filmischen Erzählens in der ökonomischen Wertschöpfungskette. Indem diese Spielfilme in hohem Maße an den Genres des Erzählkinos partizipieren und dessen Erzählmuster aufgreifen, leisten sie einen von der Forschung bisher kaum gewürdigten Beitrag zur Tradierung und Aktualisierung des kulturellen Gedächtnisses. Aufgrund ihrer narrativen Konzeption präsentieren sie literarische Texte dabei immer wieder aufs Neue als Produkte biographischer Entelechie. Auf diese Weise affirmieren sie die Narrative der psychosozialen Devianz im biographischen Spielfilm (Genie und Wahnsinn, Sucht, Homosexualität, Depression etc.) und gleichermaßen den im populären Literaturbetrieb stark etablierten autobiographischen Zugang zu literarischen Texten. Ein Filmverzeichnis gibt Auskunft über 180 literarhistorische Spielfilme des westeuropäischen und US-amerikanischen Kanons.

Film und kulturelle Erinnerung: Plurimediale Konstellationen

Medien werden erst durch bestimmte Formen des sozialen Gebrauchs zu „Medien des kollektiven Gedächtnisses“. Auch das Phänomen eines „Erinnerungsfilms“ (wie z.B. Das Leben der Anderen, Hotel Ruanda, On connaît la chanson) entsteht erst im plurimedialen Zusammenhang, durch seine Einbettung in ein komplexes mediensystemisches Netzwerk, das ihn durch verschiedene Formen der Bezugnahme zu einem solchen macht. Die im Band konturierte erinnerungskulturwissenschaftliche Filmanalyse macht diese Konstellationen in ihrem Funktionieren sichtbar.

Transnational American Memories

The volume gathers twenty original essays by experts of American memory studies from the United States and Europe. It extends discussions of U.S. American cultures of memory, commemorative identity construction, and the politics of remembrance into the topical field of transnational and comparative American studies. In the contexts of the theoretical turns since the 1990s, including prominently the pictorial and the spatial turns, and in the wake of multicultural and international conceptions of American history, the contributions to the collection explore the cultural productivity and political implications of both officially endorsed memories and practices of oppositional remembrance. Reading sites of memory situated in or related to the United States as crossroads of transnational and intercultural remembering and commemoration manifests their possibly controversial function as platforms and agents in the processes of cultural exchange and political negotiation across the spatial, temporal, and ideological trajectories that inform American Studies as Atlantic Studies, Hemispheric Studies, Pacific Studies. The interdisciplinary range of issues and materials engaged includes literary texts, personal accounts, and cultural performances from colonial times through the immediate present, the significance of war monuments and ethnic memorials in Europe, Asia, and the U.S., films about 9/11, public sculptures and the fine arts, American world’s fairs as transnational sites of memory.

Tonspuren: Erinnerungen an den Holocaust im Hörspiel der DDR (1945-1989)

This study investigates the function of the radio play as medium of cultural memory, based on the memories of the holocaust found in the radio plays of the GDR. In comparison to the presentation of the holocaust in other media, which has already been explored various times, here for the first time the focus is on the specific aesthetic means of the radio play and the role of radio as political instrument of power in the FRG-GDR conflict. You can now find excerpts of the radio plays analyzed in the study (previously on the CD sold with the book) under "additional material" on this webpage. The password to open the zip file can be found on p. 356 of the e-book and print edition.

Ned Kelly as Memory Dispositif: Media, Time, Power, and the Development of Australian Identities

Nineteenth-century outlaw Ned Kelly is perhaps Australia's most famous historical figure. Ever since he went on the run in 1878 his story has been repeated time and again, in every conceivable medium. Although the value of his memory has been hotly contested – and arguably because of this – he remains perhaps the main national icon of Australia.

Kelly's flamboyant crimes turned him into a popular hero for many Australians during his lifetime and far beyond: a symbol of freedom, anti authoritarianism, anti imperialism; a Robin Hood, a Jesse James, a Che Guevara. Others have portrayed him as a villain, a gangster, a terrorist. His latest incarnation has been as WikiLeaks founder and fellow Australian "cyber outlaw" Julian Assange. Despite the huge number of representations of Kelly – from rampant newspaper reporting of the events, to the iconic Sidney Nolan paintings, to a movie starring Mick Jagger, to contemporary urban street art – this is the first work to take this corpus of material itself as a subject of analysis.

The fascinating case of this young outlaw provides an important opportunity to further our understanding of the dynamics of cultural memory. The book explains the processes by which the cultural memory of Ned Kelly was made and has developed over time, and how it has related to formations and negotiations of national identity. It breaks new ground in memory studies in the first place by showing that cultural memories are formed and develop through tangles of relations, what Basu terms memory dispositifs. In introducing the concept of the memory dispositif, this volume brings together and develops the work of Foucault, Deleuze, and Agamben on the dispositif, along with relevant concepts from the field of memory studies such as allochronism, colonial aphasia, and multidirectionality, the memory site – especially as developed by Ann Rigney – and Jan Assmann's figure of memory.

Secondly, this work makes important headway in our understanding of the relationships between cultural memory and national identity, at a time when matters of identity appear to be more urgent and fraught than ever. In doing so, it shows that national identities are never purely national but are always sub- and transnational. The Ned Kelly memory dispositif has made complex and conflicting contributions to constructions of national identity. Ever since his outlawry, the identities invested in Kelly and those invested in the Australian nation have, in a two-way dynamic, fused into and strengthened each other, so that Kelly is in many ways a symbol for the national identity. Kelly has come to stand for an anti-establishment, working class, subaltern, Irish-inflected national identity. At the same time he has come to represent and enforce the whiteness, hyper-heterosexual masculinity and violence of "Australianness". Basu shows that Kelly has therefore always functioned in both radical and conservative ways, often both at once: a turbulent, Janus-faced figure.

'Heimat': At the Intersection of Memory and Space

The concept of Heimat with its seemingly pre- or anti-modern connotations of rootedness in a place of origin is central to a critical understanding of German history and culture. Over the course of the past fifteen years, scholars across a range of disciplines have found new ways to examine the changing notions of Heimat – its multifaceted cultural, literary, and visual history, its gendered connotations, and its national and ideological appropriations.
This anthology is the first to examine cultural manifestations of Heimat by giving special consideration to issues of memory and space. The contributions to this volume challenge static notions of place often associated with Heimat. Instead, they explore the social and cultural production of places of belonging as they emerge in literary and visual narratives ranging from 1800 to 2000 and beyond.
Although the anthology includes historical perspectives on Heimat, its overall objective is not to trace its cultural or literary history, but to place this complex term into new conceptual contexts. Drawing attention to manifestations of Heimat within German literary and cultural studies provides a rich ground for exploring the transformation of locality in trans/national contexts.

The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders

This edited collection makes a progressive intervention into the interdisciplinary field of memory studies with a series of essays drawn from diverse theoretical, practitional and cultural backgrounds. The most seminal critical development within memory studies in recent years has arguably been the turn towards transculturalism. This movement engenders a series of methodologies that posit remembrance as a fluid process
in which commemorative tropes work to inform the representation of diverse events and traumas beyond national or cultural boundaries, transcending – but not negating – spatial, temporal and ideational differences.

Examining a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the essays in this collection focus on the dialogues that shape processes of remembrance between and beyond borders, critiquing the problems and possibilities inherent in current discourses in memorial practice and theory as they approach the challenge of transculturalism.

The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory Between and Beyond Borders

This edited collection makes a progressive intervention into the interdisciplinary field of memory studies with a series of essays drawn from diverse theoretical, practitional and cultural backgrounds. The most seminal critical development within memory studies in recent years has arguably been the turn towards transculturalism. This movement engenders a series of methodologies that posit remembrance as a fluid process
in which commemorative tropes work to inform the representation of diverse events and traumas beyond national or cultural boundaries, transcending – but not negating – spatial, temporal and ideational differences.

Examining a wide range of historical and cultural contexts, the essays in this collection focus on the dialogues that shape processes of remembrance between and beyond borders, critiquing the problems and possibilities inherent in current discourses in memorial practice and theory as they approach the challenge of transculturalism.

Discursive Remembering: Individual and Collective Remembering as a Discursive, Cognitive and Historical Process

This book aims at building a bridge between the social and political aspects of remembering and the cognitive and discourse processes driving such activities. By analyzing these cognitive and discursive processes, Bietti explores practices of individual and collective remembering in institutional and private settings in relation to periods of political violence in Argentina. This books begins to fill the conceptual gap between cognitive oriented approaches to remembering that draw conclusions about how memory functions in the mind without a detailed discourse analysis of the communicative interaction in which this process unfolds, and the discourse and pragmatic oriented approaches that are mainly interested in analyzing the rhetorical features of conversational remembering, in some cases disregarding that there are underlying cognitive mechanisms that drive the construction of discourses about past experiences. The empirical analysis shows that individual and collective remembering in relation to periods of political violence in Argentina vary in pragmatic ways due to the fact that these accounts of the past were constructed with reference to the communicative situation. Thus, this book also aims at shedding new light on the current practices of commemoration and remembrance related to periods of political violence in Argentina, in public and private settings.

Discursive Remembering: Individual and Collective Remembering as a Discursive, Cognitive and Historical Process

This book aims at building a bridge between the social and political aspects of remembering and the cognitive and discourse processes driving such activities. By analyzing these cognitive and discursive processes, Bietti explores practices of individual and collective remembering in institutional and private settings in relation to periods of political violence in Argentina. This books begins to fill the conceptual gap between cognitive oriented approaches to remembering that draw conclusions about how memory functions in the mind without a detailed discourse analysis of the communicative interaction in which this process unfolds, and the discourse and pragmatic oriented approaches that are mainly interested in analyzing the rhetorical features of conversational remembering, in some cases disregarding that there are underlying cognitive mechanisms that drive the construction of discourses about past experiences. The empirical analysis shows that individual and collective remembering in relation to periods of political violence in Argentina vary in pragmatic ways due to the fact that these accounts of the past were constructed with reference to the communicative situation. Thus, this book also aims at shedding new light on the current practices of commemoration and remembrance related to periods of political violence in Argentina, in public and private settings.

Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History

Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History offers a series of essays on small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of the air war. This study thus permits fresh angles on post-war responses to the compounded losses of WW II, and it does so through considering these “miniature monuments‎” (of, among others, Frankfurt, Munich, Schwetzingen, Heilbronn and Hiroshima) in a deep cultural history that interlaces the sixteenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Three-dimensional renderings in diminutive size have rarely been subjected to rigorous theoretical reflection. Conventionally, models, whether of ruins or intact spaces, have been assumed to be “easily legible”; that is, they have been assumed to be vehicles of the authentic. Yet rubble and other models should be theorized as complex simulacra of abstract realities and catalysts of memories. Miniature Monuments thus tackles a haunting paradox: building ruins. The book elucidates how utterly contingent processes of crumbling and collapse (the English words for the Latin ruina) came to command such great interest in modern Europe that tremendous efforts were taken to uncover, render, and, most of all, recreate ruins.

Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History

Miniature Monuments: Modeling German History offers a series of essays on small-scale models of bombed out cities. Created between 1946 and the present, these plastic renderings of places provide eerie glimpses of destruction and devastation resulting of the air war. This study thus permits fresh angles on post-war responses to the compounded losses of WW II, and it does so through considering these “miniature monuments‎” (of, among others, Frankfurt, Munich, Schwetzingen, Heilbronn and Hiroshima) in a deep cultural history that interlaces the sixteenth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Three-dimensional renderings in diminutive size have rarely been subjected to rigorous theoretical reflection. Conventionally, models, whether of ruins or intact spaces, have been assumed to be “easily legible”; that is, they have been assumed to be vehicles of the authentic. Yet rubble and other models should be theorized as complex simulacra of abstract realities and catalysts of memories. Miniature Monuments thus tackles a haunting paradox: building ruins. The book elucidates how utterly contingent processes of crumbling and collapse (the English words for the Latin ruina) came to command such great interest in modern Europe that tremendous efforts were taken to uncover, render, and, most of all, recreate ruins.

The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) ‘national’ memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its ‘remembrance’ in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.

The Great War in Post-Memory Literature and Film

The twenty-seven original contributions to this volume investigate the ways in which the First World War has been commemorated and represented internationally in prose fiction, drama, film, docudrama and comics from the 1960s until the present. The volume thus provides a comprehensive survey of the cultural memory of the war as reflected in various media across national cultures, addressing the complex connections between the cultural post-memory of the war and its mediation. In four sections, the essays investigate (1) the cultural legacy of the Great War (including its mythology and iconography); (2) the implications of different forms and media for representing the war; (3) ‘national’ memories, foregrounding the differences in post-memory representations and interpretations of the Great War, and (4) representations of the Great War within larger temporal or spatial frameworks, focusing specifically on the ideological dimensions of its ‘remembrance’ in historical, socio-political, gender-oriented, and post-colonial contexts.