Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches

Bringing together a diverse array of new and established scholars and creative writers in the rapidly expanding field of memory studies, this collection creatively delves into the multiple aspects of this wide-ranging field. Contributors explore race-ing memory; environmental studies and memory; digital memory; monuments, memorials, and museums; and memory and trauma.

Organised around 7 sections, this book examines memory in a global context, from Kashmir and Chile to the US and UK. Featuring contributions on topics such as the Black Lives Matter movement; the AIDS crisis; and memory and the anthropocene, this book traces and consolidates the field while analysing and charting some of the most current and cutting-edge work, as well as new directions that could be taken.

Author: Brett Ashley Kaplan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 05/04/2023
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.94d
ISBN13: 9781350230118
ISBN10: 1350230111
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 21st Century
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes | Historical Events
- Philosophy | Mind & Body

About the Author
Brett Ashley Kaplan directs the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies and is a Professor in the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her novel, Rare Stuff, was published in 2022 and she is the author of Unwanted Beauty, Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory, and Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth.