Remaking memory and the agency of the aesthetic
| Autor: | Rigney, Ann, LS Algemene Literatuurwetenschap, ICON - Modern and Contemporary Literature |
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| Přispěvatelé: | LS Algemene Literatuurwetenschap, ICON - Modern and Contemporary Literature |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Cultural Studies
memorability multiscalar analysis Forgetting Social Psychology defamiliarisation 05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 06 humanities and the arts World War One 060202 literary studies Colonialism The arts 0506 political science resonance Aesthetics 0602 languages and literature Agency (sociology) 050602 political science & public administration Sociology colonial soldiers |
| Zdroj: | Memory Studies, 14(1), 10. SAGE Publications Ltd |
| ISSN: | 1750-6999 1750-6980 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1750698020976456 |
| Popis: | This article examines the role of the creative arts in renegotiating the border between memorable and unmemorable lives. It does so with specific reference to the (un)forgetting of the colonial soldiers in European armies during World War One. Focussing on the role of aesthetic form in generating memorability, it shows how the creative use of a medium can help redefine the borders of imagined communities by commanding the attention of individual subjects and hence providing conditions for a cognitive and affective opening to the memory of strangers. It concludes that future studies of transformations in collective memory should take a multiscalar approach which takes into account both the shifting social frameworks of memory and the small changes that occur in the micro-politics of viewing and reading. |
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