Women Mobilizing Memory - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0231191855 ISBN 13 : 9780231191852

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2019

Synopsis

Women Mobilizing Memory, a transnational exploration of the intersection of feminism, history, and memory, shows how the recollection of violent histories can generate possibilities for progressive futures. Questioning the politics of memory-making in relation to experiences of vulnerability and violence, this wide-ranging collection asks: How can memories of violence and its afterlives be mobilized for change? What strategies can disrupt and counter public forgetting? What role do the arts play in addressing the erasure of past violence from current memory and in creating new visions for future generations?

Women Mobilizing Memory emerges from a multiyear feminist collaboration bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, artists, and activists from Chile, Turkey, and the United States. The essays in this book assemble and discuss a deep archive of works that activate memory across a variety of protest cultures, ranging from seemingly minor acts of defiance to broader resistance movements. The memory practices it highlights constitute acts of repair that demand justice but do not aim at restitution. They invite the creation of alternative histories that can reconfigure painful pasts and presents. Giving voice to silenced memories and reclaiming collective memories that have been misrepresented in official narratives, Women Mobilizing Memory offers an alternative to more monumental commemorative practices. It models a new direction for memory studies and testifies to a continuing hope for an alternative future.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ayşe Gül Altınay (P.h.D, Duke University, Cultural Anthropology) is a Professor of Anthropology in Sabanci University in Turkey. She is the author of The Myth of the Military-Nation: Militarism, Gender and Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

María José Contreras is a Professor of Theater and performance artist at the Catholic University in Chile. She is a member of the Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference.

Marianne Hirsch is William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Her publications include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture After the Holocaust (Columbia, 2012); Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory (co-authored with Leo Spitzer) (California, 2010); and Rites of Return: Diaspora, Poetics and the Politics of Memory, co-edited with Nancy K. Miller (Columbia, 2011).

Jean E. Howard is George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where she teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature. She has written The Stage and Struggle in Early Modern England (Routledge, 1993); Engendering a Nation: A Feminist Account of Shakespeare's English Histories (Routledge, 1997); and Theater of a City: The Places of London Comedy 1598-1642 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).

Banu Karaca (P.h.D, Graduate Center-CUNY) is a Visiting Scholar at Sabanci University. She has written articles in International Journal of Cultural Policy and New Perspectives on Turkey. She is the co-founder of "Black Ribbon", a research platform that documents and analyzes censorship in the arts throughout Turkey.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231191855
• ISBN 13: 9780231191852
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 544
• Éditeur: Altınay Ayşe Gül, Contreras María José, Hirsch Marianne, Howard Jean, Karaca Banu, Solomon Alisa
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