Future of Memory

Richard Crownshaw is a Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths, University of London.

“This volume of fourteen chapters provides a solid overview of important trends in the expanding field of memory studies. The chapters are wide-ranging in focus, as befits their authors’ diverse academic disciplines.”  ·  Journal of Interdisciplinary History“This is an innovative, well structured and balanced collection of essays which presents a survey of theories and case studies underpinning the burgeoning field of memory studies. It addresses the ‘big issues’ including witnessing, trauma, memorials, the relation between personal and public memory, and generational transmission.”  ·  Peter Carrier, author of HOLOCAUST MONUMENTS AND NATIONAL MEMORY“This is an excellent collection of essays.”  ·  Peter Lawson, Open University, London

• PrefaceRick Crownshaw, Jane Kilby and Antony RowlandChapter 1. Memory: IntroductionRick CrownshawChapter 2. Beyond the Mnemosyne InstituteDan StoneChapter 3. Rwanda’s BonesSara GuyerChapter 4. The Imperial War Museum NorthGaynor Bagnall and Antony RowlandChapter 5. Memory and the Monument after 9/11James E. YoungChapter 6. The Edge of Memory: Innovation, TraumaSusan Rubin SuleimanChapter 7. Testimony: IntroductionAntony RowlandChapter 8. Reading Perpetrator TestimonyRobert EaglestoneChapter 9. Reading beyond the False MemoryJane KilbyChapter 10. False TestimonySue ViceChapter 11. Reading Holocaust PoetryMatthew BoswellChapter 12. Trauma: IntroductionJane KilbyChapter 13. The Trauma KnotRoger LuckhurstChapter 14. Trauma, Justice and the Political UnconsciousCathy CaruthChapter 15. Trauma and Resistance: In the Shadow of No TowersAnne WhiteheadChapter 16. Facing Losses/Losing Guarantees: Meditation on Traumatic IgnoranceSharon RosenbergChapter 17. Activist Memories: Politics, Trauma, PleasuresCarrie Hamilton