Travels in Time

Essays on Collective Memory in Motion
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-19-776774-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Human beings are time travelers. Incessantly, we traverse past, present, and future through a process called collective memory. In Travels in Time, Astrid Erll addresses the question of how collective memory emerges through motion--the movements of people, media, forms, and practices. Grounded in literary, cultural, and media memory studies, this collection of essays undertakes forays into various dimensions of collective memory as traveling memory. It discusses the ways in which families and generations shape and are shaped by the past; how media such as literature, film, and photography make and remake collective memory; or how trauma, flashbulb memories, and implicit memory are interwoven with culture. The essays consider repercussions of recent historical events as well as long-term mnemonic processes, ranging from Greek antiquity to British colonialism in India, and from the First and Second World Wars to migration in Europe, 9/11, and the coronavirus pandemic. Developing a broad perspective on collective memory, this book outlines the horizons of interdisciplinary memory research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Erll, Astrid

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Gedächtnis

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Acknowledgements

- Introduction: Traveling in Time

- Part I: Traveling and Transcultural Memory

- Chapter 1: Traveling Memory

- Chapter 2: Traveling Memory in European Film

- Chapter 3: Homer-A Relational Mnemohistory

- Chapter 4: Memory Worlds in Times of Corona

- Part II: Memory in Families and Generations

- Chapter 5: Locating Family in Memory Studies

- Chapter 6: Generation in Literary History: Genealogy, Generationality, Memory

- Chapter 7: Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Philipps's In the Falling Snow (2009)

- Part III: Memory and Mediation

- Chapter 8: Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory

- Chapter 9: Remediation across Time, Space, and Cultures: The Indian Rebellion of 1857-58

- Chapter 10: Plurimediality and Traveling Schemata: "District Six"

- Chapter 11: The Ethics of Premediation in James Joyce's Ulysses

- Part IV: Dialogues with Psychology

- Chapter 12: The Hidden Power of Implicit Collective Memory

- Chapter 13: Ecologies of Trauma

- Chapter 14: Flashbulb Memories: An Interdisciplinary Research Program (with William Hirst)

- Afterword: Traveling On

- Bibliography

- Filmography

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Astrid Erll is Professor of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. She specializes in memory studies, literary and media history, narrative theory, and transcultural studies. In 2011, she founded the Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, a vibrant forum for international and interdisciplinary research on collective memory. She is author of Memory in Culture (2011), an introduction to memory studies, and co-editor of the Companion to Cultural Memory Studies (2010). Together with Jeffrey K. Olick, she edits the Oxford series Studies in Collective Memory.