Overview
- Explores the topic of affective memory as it relates to slavery and racism in the Americas
- Contributes to scholarship in trauma studies and cultural memory studies
- Makes connections to current debates about memorials and cultural memory in the United States
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism (PSATLC)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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About this book
Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three distinct areas of critical theory, memoir, and memorial art. The book first shows how affect theorists have increasingly complemented more traditional archival research through the use of “academic memoir.” This theoretical piece is then applied to memoir works by Caribbean writers Dionne Brand and Patrick Chamoiseau, and the final case study in the book interprets as memorial art Kara Walker’s ephemeral 80,000 pound sugar sculpture of 2014. Memory as method; memory as archive; memorial as affect: this book looks at the interplay between archival sources on the one hand, and the affective memories, both personal and collective, that flow from, around, and into the constantly shifting record of the past.
Reviews
“Interdisciplinary and international in scope; enviably concise in surveying, and astute in selecting and deploying, a wide range of scholarship; nuanced in demonstrating a reparative reading practice across different modalities; and elegantly persuasive in arguing ‘the affective archive’ as method, Professor Johnson’s book makes productive reading for anyone interested incoming to terms, through cultural and memorial practices, with the afterlives of slavery.” (Donna Palmateer Pennee, Western University, Canada)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Erica L. Johnson is Professor of English at Pace University in New York. She is the author of books including Caribbean Ghostwriting (2009), and co-editor of Memory as Colonial Capital (2017) and The Female Face of Shame (2013).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing
Authors: Erica L. Johnson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02098-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02097-2Published: 14 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02098-9Published: 02 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2634-6311
Series E-ISSN: 2634-632X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 112
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Literary Theory, North American Literature, Memory Studies