Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, and war on individual and collective memory. The ways in which memory affects cultural representation and historical understanding across generations is examined through case studies and theoretical approaches that underscore its mutability.
Memory and Migration is a truly interdisciplinary book featuring the work of leading scholars from a variety of fields across the globe. The essays are collaborative, successfully responding to the central theme and expanding upon the findings of individual authors. A groundbreaking contribution to an emerging field of study, Memory and Migration provides valuable insight into the connections between memory, place, and displacement.
Table of Contents
Introduction
| Julia Creet: | The Migration of Memory and Memories of Migration | 1 |
Section I: The Melancholy of No Return
| Zofia Rosinzka: | Emigratory Experience: The Melancholy of No Return | 30 |
| Srdja Pavlovic: | Memory for Breakfast | 48 |
| Veronika Zangl: | Remigration and Lost Time: Resuming Life After the Holocaust | 60 |
| Chowra Makaremi: | The Waiting Zone | 81 |
Section II: Collective Memory Ghettos
| Andreas Kitzmann: | Frames of Memory: WWII German Expellees in Canada | 111 |
| John Sundholm: | The Cultural Trauma Process, or the Ethics and Mobility of Memory | 147 |
| Laurenn Guyot: | Locked in a Memory Ghetto: a Case Study of a Kurdish Community in France |
167 |
| Nergis Canefe: | Home in Exile: Politics of Refugeehood in Canadian Muslim Diaspora | 196 |
Section III: The Smell of Flowers and Rotting Potatoes
| Mona Lindqvist: | The Flower Girl: a Case Study in Sense Memory | 230 |
| Amira Bojadzija-Dan: | Reading Sensation: Memory and Movement in Charlotte Delbo's Auschwitz and After | 244 |
| Marlene Goldman: | Memory, Diaspora, Hysteria: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace | 265 |
Section IV: Architectures of Memory
| Tomasz Mazur: | Value of Memory - Memory of Value: A Mnemonic Interpretation of Socrates' Ethical Intellectualism | 294 |
| Luiza Nader: | Migratory subjects: Memory work in Krzysztof Wodiczko's projections and instruments | 313 |
| Yvonne Singer: | The Veiled Room | 330 |
| Julia Creet: | The Archive as Temporary Abode | 354 |
| Bibliography | 379 |
Overview
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays explores the effects of immigration, forced expulsions, exile, banishment, and war on individual and collective memory. The ways in which memory affects cultural representation and historical understanding across generations is examined through case studies and theoretical ...