Cultural Memory Studies

Reducere. Black Cultural Mythology retrieves the concept of "mythology" from its Black Arts Movement origins and broadens its scope to illuminate the relatio...

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism ...

Description Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, s...

Reducere. Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity, and culture. It invest...

This volume explores the synergies and tensions between memory studies and postcolonial studies across literatures and media from Europe, Africa an...

This international and interdisciplinary volume explores the relations between translation, migration and memory, and brings together humanities re...

Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in...

Reducere. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written practices and how they are transmitted. This study concentrates on incorporated pract...

Through readings of postcolonial theory and examination of post-9/11 novels, film, and hip-hop music, this book studies how North African immigrant...

Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory:...

Reducere. Table of contents: ◊ Mircea Eliade: the Growth of a Career ◊ The American Experience ◊ The Reception of Eliade's Scientific Oeuvre in the United St...

Reducere. Music and sound shape the emotional content of audio-visual media and carry different meanings. This volume considers audio-visual material as a pr...

Reducere. This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used an...

This book examines the significant changes that Venice underwent between the late-sixth and the early-eleventh centuries. It is addressed to schola...

A new examination of mass digitization as an emerging sociopolitical and sociotechnical phenomenon that alters the politics of cultural memory.Toda...

The studies of the present volume offer cultural and narratological analysis of contemporary German-language fiction by women authors of Hungarian ...

Reducere. It is now forty years after Mao Zedong's death and the end of the Cultural Revolution, and more than fifty years since the Great Leap Forward and t...

In all societies--but especially those that have endured political violence--the past is a shifting and contested terrain, never fixed and always i...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lucy R. LippardIn The Lure of the Local Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural studies, history, geography, and contempor...

"Performance" has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the pow...

DescriptionExhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best...

Reducere. Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Performance Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. THE NANCY REAGAN COLLECTION is a response to growing up queer and trans under the rise ...

DescriptionMiddle Easterners today struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural identity. In recen...

Reducere. In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men's and women's roles or who mix men's and women's roles. Asegi, which trans...

Reducere. First impressions stick with us. Paul's first impression of the Thessalonian Christians was an especially powerful one: The gospel message he preac...

DescriptionThis new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge abou...

Reducere. This revised and updated edition of The Great War in History provides the first survey of historical interpretations of the Great War from 1914 to ...

Winner of the 2006 Andr s Bello Award for Memory and Ibero-American ThoughtIn this evocatively written book, Germ n Pati o Ossa presents the cultur...

DescriptionLiving work of art, consumer commodity, scientific hero, and environmental menace: the humble goldfish is the ultimate human cultural ar...

DescriptionFew images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea...

Reducere. For the church, there can be no more significant question than Christ's Who do you say that I am? It is the cornerstone upon which all of Christian...

The question "Do black landscapes matter?" cuts deep to the core of American history. From the plantations of slavery to contemporary segregated ci...

Reducere. "A masterful overview of archaeological work on American gravestones and cemeteries that should be on the shelf of every student and scholar of mor...

DescriptionHaitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat is one of the most recognized writers today. Her debut novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was an Opra...

Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912-1913 were among the most consequential of ...

Reducere. Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. PAPER BELLS is a striking, new collection by poet Phan Nhi n Hao, depicting his American life as a Vietname...

Reducere. Horror's longstanding reputation as a popular but culturally denigrated genre has been challenged by a new wave of films mixing arthouse minimalism...