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Towards an Understanding of Kurdistani Memory Culture

Apostrophic and Phantomic Approaches to a Violent Past

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Authors:
  1. Bareez Majid

    1. Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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  • Provides unique insights into the KRI’s memory culture
  • Develops original concepts: the apostrophic and the phantomic museum
  • Ingeniously combines various academic disciplines

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict (PSCHC)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Kurdistani Memory Culture

    • Bareez Majid
    Pages 1-42

  3. Master Narratives: Kurdistani Memory Culture and Educational Textbooks

    • Bareez Majid
    Pages 43-93

  4. Resisting Master Narratives: Kurdistani Memory Culture and Two Literary Texts by Bachtyar Ali

    • Bareez Majid
    Pages 95-138

  5. The Apostrophic: Amna Suraka, in Order Not to Forget

    • Bareez Majid
    Pages 139-202

  6. The Phantomic: The Halabja Monument and Peace Museum

    • Bareez Majid
    Pages 203-268

  7. Conclusion: Memory as an Agent of Change

    • Bareez Majid
    Pages 269-282

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 283-308
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About this book

This book presents a thorough analysis of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq’s memory culture, focusing particularly on commemorations and representations of the Anfal and Halabja atrocities. The author employs a transdisciplinary approach that draws on Memory Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Heritage Studies, Kurdish Studies, Literary Studies and Trauma Studies, to analyze cultural objects such as Kurdistani literary novels, museums, and school curricula. The book introduces two key concepts: the "phantomic museum" and the "apostrophic museum." The former explores the fragile and politicized nature of memories of missing individuals who disappeared during Saddam Hussein's genocidal campaigns and who have never been found, primarily as they return in the Halabja Monument and Peace Museum. The latter examines how the addressing – apostrophizing – of Kurdistan, in and by the Amna Suraka museum in the city of Sulaymaniyah, institutionalizes “official” and highly politicized versions of the past.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

    Bareez Majid

About the author

Bareez Majid holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Leiden University, and is currently an affiliated fellow at Heidelberg University. She specializes in memory, trauma, museums, and literature, with a specific focus on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Majid co-authored the 2022 book Exploring Hartmut Rosa’s Concept of Resonance.

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