Overview
- Critically examines the ways in which various individuals, organizations, and institutions are mobilizing future-oriented memories of ‘Europe’ with a view to forging notions of non-, supra-, or post-national citizenship and/or innovative forms of transnational solidarity
- Distinguishes itself from existing scholarship by considering less-examined narratives of transnational cultural memory such as religion and feminism
- Interested in how memory discourses circulate not only on intra-European, but also extra-European levels and how memories of ‘Europe’ are being transferred, translated, and/or transformed through global interactions with locations such as North America, Australia or China
Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures responds to recent academic calls to break with methodological nationalism in memory studies. Taking European memory as a case study, the book offers new empirical and theoretical insights into the transnational dimensions of cultural memory, without losing sight of the continued relevance of the nation. The articles critically examine the ways in which various individuals, organizations, institutions, and works of art are mobilizing future-oriented memories of Europe to construct new memory narratives. Taking into account the heterogeneity and transnational locations of commemorative groups, the multidirectionality of acts of remembrance, and a variety of commemorative media such as museums, film, photography, and literature, the volume not only investigates how memory discourses circulate within Europe, but also how they are being transferred, translated, or transformed through global interactions beyond the European continent.
Reviews
“Christina Kraenzle and Maria Mayr’s edited volume, The Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures, is a needed contribution to the growing literature on Europeanization of memories, focusing especially on the “imaginative arts.” This book is at the cutting edge of theoretical and empirical research in memory studies, taking concepts like “multi-directional” and “travelling” memory seriously and problematizing notions of globalization, cosmopolitanization, and transnationalism. The contributions represent a wide range of disciplinary sensibilities, regions within Europe (Catalonia, Germany, Romania, Belgium, Austria, and Switzerland), and beyond (Canada, China), and texts (museums, memorials, film, novels).” (Eric Langenbacher, Georgetown University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maria Mayr is Assistant Professor of German Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. Her research analyzes contemporary German-language cultural productions, with a focus on migration, memory, transnationalism, and identity discourses.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Changing Place of Europe in Global Memory Cultures
Book Subtitle: Usable Pasts and Futures
Editors: Christina Kraenzle, Maria Mayr
Series Title: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39152-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 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) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39151-9Published: 19 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81831-3Published: 07 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39152-6Published: 10 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6257
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6265
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Culture, Memory Studies, Cultural Anthropology, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural Theory, History of Modern Europe