Crownshaw, Richard, ed. 2014. Transcultural Memory. London and NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415824484 [Edited Book]

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Memories are not static or frozen, remaining in particular sites or places, within and belonging to particular groups, cultures or nations; rather, memory travels. Broadly speaking, memory has travelled because of the demographic displacements brought about by modernity’s extremes – slavery, colonialism, ethnic cleansing and genocide – and also because of the trade, travel and migration made possible by globalisation. Whether social movement is violent, exilic, migratory, emancipatory or oppressive, it is accompanied by memory. With the movement of people, memories of modernity’s histories and postmodern legacies meet, correspond and often become mutually constitutive. Even where memories compete with each other for cultural dominance, mutual dialogue and recognition is implicit if not explicit. Memories travel through and across cultures and national boundaries, a process increasingly facilitated by mass media technologies.

This collection explores a range of case studies of transcultural memory as well as theorising the mobility of memory as it travels. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal parallax.

Item Type:	Edited Book
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	English and Comparative Literature
Date:	2014
Item ID:	13013
Date Deposited:	01 Sep 2015 08:16
Last Modified:	23 Jun 2017 15:39
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13013

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