Cultural Memory

La Campaña Nacional (1856-1857): historiografía, literatura y memoria

by David Diaz-Arias

Ideologies of Life: Collective Memory and Autobiographical Meaning-Making of the Past in Estonian Post-Soviet Life Stories. Tartu: Estonian National Museum 2005.

by Ene Kõresaar

In Estonian. Summary in English.

A study about the narrative periodization of the 20th century after the post-communist turn in Estonia. A study about the narrative periodization of the 20th century after the post-communist turn in Estonia.

Race, Remembering, and Jim Crow's Teachers

by Hilton Kelly

She Who Remembers, Survives. Interpreting Estonian Post-Soviet Life Stories. Tartu UP 2004.

by Ene Kõresaar

Co-edited with Tiina Ann Kirss & Marju Lauristin. Co-authored with Rutt Hinrikus, Tiina Ann Kirss, Tiiu Jaago, Riina Reinvelt, Aigi Rahi-Tamm & Marju Lauristin.

Tartaria Magna 1/2012

by Dmitriy Garmaev

Second issue of new academic journal Tartaria Magna

Second issue of new academic journal. Studia Turkica Mongolica Tibetica Manchurica Sibirica Russica et cetera. more Second issue of new academic journal. Studia Turkica Mongolica Tibetica Manchurica Sibirica Russica et cetera.

Tartaria Magna is a peer reviewed e-journal in Russian. Editors accept papers and reviews in English and provide Russian translation. We may consider publication of the papers and reviews that have been published in other journals within the period of 3 years. More info: www.tartaria-magna.ru

Remembering Revolution: Gender, Violence, and Subjectivity in India's Naxalbari Movement

by srila roy

Libro: Religión y producción del Otro: mitologías, memorias y narrativas en la construcción identitaria de las corrientes inmigratorias rusas en Uruguay.

by L. Nicolás Guigou

Libro: Religión y producción del Otro: mitologías, memorias y narrativas en la construcción identitaria de las corrientes inmigratorias rusas en Uruguay.

ISBN: 978-9974-0-0736-9

Premio Nacional de Ciencias Sociales y Jurídicas- Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, MEC. Edita: Lucida Ediciones, Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, MEC, LICCOM, Universidad de la República. Montevideo, 2011.

RESUMEN

Pretendemos, por medio de esta investigación, unificar diversos ejes relacionados con un conjunto... more RESUMEN

Pretendemos, por medio de esta investigación, unificar diversos ejes relacionados con un conjunto de tematizaciones de interés antropológico. Nuestra investigación intenta ahondar en la esfera de lo religioso en tanto eje de construcción identitaria, a través de la indagación de las mitologías, memorias y narrativas posibles en el marco de la memoria colectiva y social de un grupo específico: la comunidad rural denominada San Javier (Departamento de Río Negro, Uruguay). La matriz religiosa de esta Colonia se afinca en su propio proceso fundacional: San Javier fue fundado en el año 1913, en el Uruguay, por un grupo de inmigrantes rusos pertenecientes a la “Comunidad Nueva Israel” (Novo Israilskaia Obchina), corriente religiosa escindida de la Iglesia Ortodoxa Rusa a mediados del siglo XVIII. A través de esta investigación tratamos de profundizar en las narrativas de los habitantes de San Javier, estudiando las diferentes temporalidades que atraviesan a las mismas y las fragmentaciones espacio-temporales sobre las cuales estas narrativas se construyen. En el espacio de la temporalidad que relaciona religión y memoria – y que señalan el declino de Nueva Israel, religión fundadora de San Javier- , ingresan un conjunto de fragmentaciones que construyen varios Otros en un proceso de alteridad interna a la propia Colonia . Sumado a esto, las relaciones de la Colonia San Javier con la sociedad nacional uruguaya y con la Unión Soviética, y particularmente, las temporalidades del Terror vividas por los habitantes de San Javier bajo la influencia del estalinismo en la URSS y la dictadura militar en el Uruguay, hacen que esa producción del Otro adquiera diversas modalidades, y que el espacio pluralizado y fragmentado donde conviven religión y memoria, se encuentre poblado por narrativas conflictivas, estableciéndose una tradición de la temporalidad sanjavierina basada en y para el conflicto.

Abstract

This research study is intended as a unifying link for a variety of topics that relate to a number of anthropological subject-matters. The research is aimed at an indepth analysis of the religious aspect as the central theme in building an identity. The study investigates mythologies, memories and narratives that can possibly be part of the collective and social memory of a specific group: a rural community known as San Javier (in the Department of Rio Negro, Republic of Uruguay). The religious mold of this colony is a result of its very own founding process. San Javier was founded in 1913 by a group of Russian immigrants who were part of the “New Israel Community” (Novo Israilskaia Obchina), a religious current that broke away from the Russian Orthodox Church in the mid 18th century. In order to attentively study the narratives of the people of San Javier, our work considers, in ample detail, their various temporalities, and the spatial and temporal fragmentations upon which such narratives have been created. A number of fragmentations that constitute several Others as part of an internal alterity process of the colony, are included in the space of the temporality that relates religion and memory – pointing at the decline of New Israel, the religion responsible for the founding of San Javier. Also, such production of the Other assumes a variety of forms, by virtue of the relations of the San Javier colony with Uruguayan society and with the Soviet Union; and in particular, due to the temporalities of Terror experienced by the inhabitants of San Javier during Stalin’s influence in the USSR and during the military dictatorship in Uruguay. In addition to this, the pluralized and fragmented space where religion and memory coexist becomes filled with controversial narratives, determining a tradition of the San Javier temporality, based on and toward conflict.

Historia del testimonio chileno. De las estrategias de denuncia a las políticas de memoria (1973-2005)

by Jaume Peris Blanes

Publicado en la editorial Quaderns de Filologia, del Servei de Publicaciones de la Universitat de València

Esta Historia del testimonio chileno describe críticamente la cambiante función que la palabra de los supervivientes... more Esta Historia del testimonio chileno describe críticamente la cambiante función que la palabra de los supervivientes de los campos de concentración chilenos ha desempeñado en la creación de imágenes y relatos de la violencia del régimen de Pinochet desde los meses posteriores al golpe hasta la actualidad.
En los años que siguieron al golpe de 1973, los supervivientes unieron su voz a las múltiples plataformas de denuncia en el exilio que trataban de articular un amplio frente internacional contra la consolidación de la dictadura. Los testimonios de sus experiencias en los campos se vincularon a esa estrategia de resistencia, a la vez que permitían a los supervivientes dar sentido narrativo a una vivencia de profundos efectos traumáticos en el sujeto.
Con el paso del tiempo, los relatos de los supervivientes comenzaron a articularse a los de los familiares de detenidos desaparecidos en el interior del país, convirtiéndose en los principales referentes de los emergentes movimientos por la defensa de los derechos humanos, que resultaron fundamentales en el vasto movimiento de oposición que consiguió el fin de la dictadura. En el contexto de la transición a la democracia, los testimonios fueron gradualmente absorbidos por un paradigma que ya estaba presente en los años de la dictadura, pero que ganó mucha más centralidad en la época de la redemocratización: la lucha por la memoria y la rehabilitación de las víctimas de la dictadura. En los últimos años, los supervivientes y su palabra traumada ganarían, de hecho, una inusitada centralidad en las políticas de memoria del Estado chileno.
No fue ese un proceso sin contradicciones ni violencias y sus efectos distan mucho de ser satisfactorios para algunos de los colectivos implicados. Lejos de la visión triunfalista de la clase política chilena, este ensayo pretende analizar críticamente ese trayecto y describir los claroscuros que subyacen a los usos políticos de la memoria en la actualidad.

Urbicidio. Il senso dei luoghi tra distruzioni e ricostruzioni in ex Jugoslavia.

by Francesco Mazzucchelli

Bononia University Press, 2010
Leggi una recensione (di Massimo Leone) di Urbicidio a questo link http://unito.academia.edu/MassimoLeone/Papers/741114/2011_Review_of_Mazzucchelli_Francesco._2010._Urbicidio_Il_senso_dei_luoghi_tra_costruzioni_e_ricostruzioni_nella_ex_Jugoslavia._Bologna_Bononia_University_Press_2010_

Nelle guerre moderne la città è divenuta uno degli obiettivi e delle vittime principali. Per riprendere l’efficace... more Nelle guerre moderne la città è divenuta uno degli obiettivi e delle vittime principali. Per riprendere l’efficace espressione di Paul Virilio, la strategia delle nuove guerre è oggi, essenzialmente, una “strategia anti-città”. Lo spazio urbano è diventato bersaglio non solo per motivi strategici, ma soprattutto per i significati che incarna: valori identitari, sociali e culturali.
Per questi motivi, spesso, le tracce lasciate dagli eventi bellici nei tessuti urbani si caricano di forti valenze simboliche e la fase della ricostruzione diventa un momento di riscrittura del paesaggio della memoria della città.
I progetti e gli interventi di restauro/ricostruzione/demolizione dei dopoguerra sono, in questa prospettiva, espressione di narrazioni collettive che stabiliscono un rapporto ogni volta diverso tra la città, l’evento bellico e la sua memoria.
Il tema delle trasformazioni urbane belliche e postbelliche viene affrontato qui attraverso l’analisi in profondità di tre città protagoniste delle guerre balcaniche degli anni ’90: Belgrado, Sarajevo e Mostar. Queste città vengono osservate con la lente del metodo semiotico che ne mette in luce le diverse riconfigurazioni dei sensi dei luoghi, tra politiche del costruire e pratiche dell’abitare.

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La bataille des mémoires. La Seconde Guerre mondiale et le roman français

by Yan Hamel

La Seconde Guerre mondiale est un des événements les plus traumatiques vécus en Europe au cours du XXe siècle. C’est... more La Seconde Guerre mondiale est un des événements les plus traumatiques vécus en Europe au cours du XXe siècle. C’est aussi l’un des plus commentés, discutés, mis en récit. C’est précisément à l’étude de ces romans que se consacre Yan Hamel dans La bataille des mémoires.

Cette étude est nécessaire parce que plusieurs des plus grands écrivains contemporains ont essayé de donner un sens à ce qui ne paraissait pas en avoir. La bataille des mémoires fait entendre les voix de Vercors et de Julien Gracq, de Lydie Salvayre et de Marguerite Duras, de Romain Gary et de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, de Jorge Semprun et de Jean Rouaud, de Jean Genet et de Michel Tournier, sans oublier celles de Simone de Beauvoir, Roger Nimier, Roger Vailland, Marcel Aymé, Claude Simon et Patrick Modiano.

Il fallait aussi se pencher sur leurs œuvres, car elles soulèvent des problèmes fondamentaux. Comment arrive-t-on à dire ce qui paraît si difficile à dire : la guerre, la mort, l’oubli ? Que peut la littérature devant une tragédie comme celle des années 1939-1945 ? Les écrivains peuvent-ils rester à l’écart des drames de leur époque et ne pas s’engager ? Voici quelques-unes des questions difficiles, et essentielles, auxquelles La bataille des mémoires apporte des réponses.

Yan Hamel est chercheur post-doctoral au Département des lettres françaises de l’Université d’Ottawa. Il a publié plusieurs articles sur la littérature française contemporaine et il a coédité deux volumes collectifs : Victor Hugo (2003-1802) (2003) et Des mots et des muscles ! (2005).

Mention honorable, prix Raymond-Klibansky de la Fédération canadienne des sciences humaines (2007-2008)

The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America

by Benjamin Reiss

The Bee Kingdom

by Joy Garnett

Images/research: http://www.flickr.com/photos/newsgrist/sets/72157624673529973/with/6749187579/

The Bee Kingdom is a family memoir in progress that will be accompanied by an online visual archive focusing on the... more The Bee Kingdom is a family memoir in progress that will be accompanied by an online visual archive focusing on the life of my maternal grandfather: scientist, beekeeper and Egyptian Romantic poet Ahmed Zaky Abushady (1892-1955). Abushady was an instrumental figure, both as a poet and as publisher and founder of the Modernist literary group “Apollo” and its eponymous journal that became the seminal organ of the Romantic poets in the Modern Arabic poetry movement in Egypt’s “Old Regime” (ca. 1920s-40s). He was also a physician and bacteriologist who is still known in certain circles for having definitively revolutionized beekeeping at an international scale. His work started in England, where he attended medical school, and later in Egypt where he returned in 1922 and raised a family. In addition to inventing the first standardized, aluminum honeycomb, which he patented in 1919, Abushady founded, designed, edited and published several early important bee research journals: The Bee World in England, and later The Bee Kingdom in Cairo. Contributors were international and ranged from local bee farmers to renowned entomologists; the latter journal was bilingual English and Arabic. Abushady’s aim in bee husbandry, as in literature, was ecological and cultural richness through selection, experimentation and hybridity.

SOUTHERN CROSSINGS: POETRY, MEMORY, AND THE TRANSCULTURAL SOUTH

by Daniel Cross Turner

Available now for pre-order from the University of Tennessee Press

Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory and the Transcultural South
Daniel Cross Turner

“Daniel Cross... more Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory and the Transcultural South
Daniel Cross Turner

“Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. Turner’s close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm’s central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. This is a valuable and important book that entwines new visions of poetic forms with forms of regional remembrance and identity.”
—Natasha Trethewey, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Native Guard: Poems

Offering new perspectives on a diversity of recent and still-practicing southern poets, from Robert Penn Warren and James Dickey to Betty Adcock, Charles Wright, Yusef Komunyakaa, Natasha Trethewey, and others, this study brilliantly illustrates poetry’s value as a genre well suited to investigating historical conditions and the ways in which they are culturally assimilated and remembered.

Daniel Cross Turner sets the stage for his wide-ranging explorations with an introductory discussion of the famous Fugitive poets John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson and their vision of a “constant southerness” that included an emphasis on community and kinship, remembrance of the Civil War and its glorified pathos of defeat, and a distinctively southern (white) voice. Combining poetic theory with memory studies, he then shows how later poets, with their own unique forms of cultural remembrance, have reimagined and critiqued the idealized view of the South offered by the Fugitives. This more recent work reflects not just trauma and nostalgia but makes equally trenchant uses of the past, including historiophoty (the recording of history through visual images) and countermemory (resistant strains of cultural memory that disrupt official historical accounts). As Turner demonstrates, the range of poetries produced within and about the American South from the 1950s to the present helps us to recalibrate theories of collective remembrance on regional, national, and even transnational levels.

With its array of new insights on poets of considerable reputation—six of the writers discussed here have won at least one Pulitzer Prize for poetry—Southern Crossings makes a signal contribution to the study of not only modern poetics and literary theory but also of the U.S. South and its place in the larger world.

Daniel Cross Turner is an assistant professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. His articles, which focus on regional definition in national and global contexts and on aesthetic forms’ potential to record historical transitions, appear in edited collections as well as journals including Genre, Mosaic, the Southern Literary Journal, the Southern Quarterly, and the Mississippi Quarterly.

Despite This Loss: Essays on Culture, Memory and Identity in Newfoundland and Labrador

by Elizabeth Yeoman

Вместо памяти: советское сегодня. Тематический блок под редакцией Сергея Ушакина

by Serguei Alex. Oushakine (Сергей Ушакин)

Неприкосновенный запас, 2011 (6) № 80.

http://www.nlobooks.ru/rus/nz-online/426/

Сергей Ушакин.
Отстраивая историю: советское прошлое сегодня
Андрей Казакевич.
Символика места:... more Сергей Ушакин.
Отстраивая историю: советское прошлое сегодня
Андрей Казакевич.
Символика места: забывание и фрагментация «советского» в ландшафте Минска
Юлия Скубицкая.
Гибкость хаоса вместо стройности ансамбля: двадцать лет постсоветского Харькова
Любовь Четырова.
Мо(ну)менты прошлого: нелинейная история взаимосвязей в Калмыкии
Мадлен Пильц.
«Мужчина и женщина, защитник и мать»: советское прошлое и несоветское настоящее Матери Грузии
Нина Багдасарова, Марина Глушкова.
На заборе истории: атланты и кариатиды непарадной Киргизии
Цыпылма Дариева.
Стерилизуя публичное пространство? Бакинская набережная как променад истории
Нелли Бекус, Кульшат Медеуова.
Смена эпох как смена столиц: Астана как глобальный центр
Гунтис Шолкс, Гита Дэюс, Елена Чистяка.
Рига: обновление как джентрификация

Music, Arts, and History of Languages of the World

by Sharron Gu

This book has been rejected many times by some of the best university presses because it could not pass the censorship of the "authorities" in the field. The editors of those presses have been very kind to me and tried their best to put it through the system but they couldn't do anything when the authorities believed that this piece of work would "trash" (their words not mine) the entire scholarship. In fact I don't have a goal as ambitious as they thought. I simply want to challenge a few assumptions in which world languages have been studied and understood for decades.

This is the volume of theory for my multi-volume work World Languages: A Multimedia Approach that summarizes the findings of my research on global languages and cultures during the past thirty years. It includes a volume that describes my original theory of language development in diverse cultural environment, which is written for professors, researchers, and graduate students. It presents my non-linguistic (as academic discipline) and interdisciplinary theory of language. There are several volumes of the history of specific languages (language groups) for undergraduate students. They are introductory and comprehensive histories of Chinese, Germanic, Semitic, Romance, and African languages that constructed according to my theory. Two volumes of this have been scheduled to publish during the next moths and several others are currently read by academic publishers in America and Europe.

This work is a formal and interdisciplinary history of literary languages, and it considers mainly ancient Semitic,... more This work is a formal and interdisciplinary history of literary languages, and it considers mainly ancient Semitic, Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, English, German, and Italian. Spanish and French are occasionally mentioned to support the argument. It is a revision of the origins and dynamic of linguistic development by comparing ancient and modern languages. It illustrates that all literary languages evolved in the same pattern and within the context of its immediate cultural environment. This environment is a repertoire of inherited and imported expressions, such as oral languages (including regional dialects), music, visual images, performing gestures, and foreign languages. The similarity of various languages lies less in their shared grammatical features, phonetic characteristics or borrowed vocabularies, and more in the way in which each is inspired, motivated and transformed by interaction with diverse cultural media. As the primary dynamic of linguistic evolution, this historic interaction and mutual enrichment determines the initial form, the historic tendency, the formal maturity and transformation of the literary language.

Performative Monuments: Public Art, Photography, and the Past in Postwar Europe

by Mechtild Widrich

Book manuscript.

Daroji Valley: Landscape History, Place, and the Making of a Dryland Reservoir System

by Kathleen Morrison

(with W. Seibt, ed.), The Creation of the Caucasian Alphabets as Phenomenon of Cultural History (Veröffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung). Vienna 2011, 132 p.

by Johannes Preiser-Kapeller

The volume was created on the basis of selected contributions to an international symposium that was held in 2005 on... more The volume was created on the basis of selected contributions to an international symposium that was held in 2005 on the occasion of the 1600-year anniversary of the creation of the Armenian alphabet in Vienna at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In order to view this major event of cultural history in a larger context, the conception of the symposium was widened in order to include not only the other two South Caucasian alphabets, the Georgian and Albanian, but also the Coptic one and the conditions in the Iranian empire of those centuries. Some well-datable, relatively clear research results are often in strong contrast to the more legendary traditions, which science has not resolved sufficiently until now. That the blessed Maštoc‘, which in the later tradition is rather called Mesrop, in 405/406 created the Armenian alphabet is beyond discussion. But the Armenian tradition ascribes to Maštoc‘ also to the creation of the Albanian and the oldest Georgian alphabet. For the former, there existed until recently only vague theories; only after the decoding and decryption of palimpsests discovered in the St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai, to which a contribution in this volume is dedicated, founded statements are possible. For the Georgian alphabet a completely new approach is presented in a paper (creation in the Syrian-Palestinian region, just after the creation of the Armenian alphabet). On the basis of these alphabets emerged a rich literature, which reached very quickly high bloom, especially in Armenia. Thus, the volume is not only of interest for specialists in the areas of the Caucasus, but also for all researchers concerned with the development of Christian cultures in the late antique and early medieval centuries.


CONTENTS:

Vorwort

Sen AREVŠATYAN, Mesrop Maštoc‘ and the Beginning of Armenian Philosophy

Vladimir BARKHUDARYAN, The Creation of the Armenian Alphabet and the Armenian Identity

Armenuhi DROST-ABGARJAN,
Das armenische Alphabet im Kontext der autochthonen Schriftsysteme des Christlichen Orients

Hans FÖRSTER, Koptisches Alphabet und koptische Identität

Jost GIPPERT, The script of the Caucasian Albanians in the light of the Sinai palimpsests

Vakhtang IMNAISHVILI, Die Folgen der Entstehung des georgischen Alphabets in den ersten Jahrhunderten

Zurab KANANCHEV, Die albanische Schrift – zum Problem „Mesrop Maštoc‛“

Mesrob K. KRIKORIAN, Das Datum der Entstehung des armenischen Alphabets

Jean-Pierre MAHÉ, Systèmes d’écriture et historiographie de la christianisation du Caucase

Werner SEIBT, Wo, wann und zu welchem Zweck wurde das georgische Alphabet geschaffen?

Xavier TREMBLAY, Das Christentum im iranischen Kulturraum bis zum 13. Jahrhundert anhand der syrischen Quellen und der Schriftdenkmäler im Iran

Verzeichnis der Autorinnen und Autoren

Index

"Paul Fusco's RFK Funeral Train: The Cultural Life of a Memory Text" in Writing With Light

by Francisca Fuentes

ed. Mick Gidley