Ronald Hendel
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195177961
- eISBN:
- 9780199784622
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195177967.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
The historical background of the patriarchal narratives has been much contested in modern scholarship. Among the authentic historical details advanced by scholars, three bodies of data have a strong ...
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The historical background of the patriarchal narratives has been much contested in modern scholarship. Among the authentic historical details advanced by scholars, three bodies of data have a strong claim to historical antiquity: the antiquity of the traditions about Abraham, the pre-Israelite worship of El, and the memory of an Amorite homeland.Less
The historical background of the patriarchal narratives has been much contested in modern scholarship. Among the authentic historical details advanced by scholars, three bodies of data have a strong claim to historical antiquity: the antiquity of the traditions about Abraham, the pre-Israelite worship of El, and the memory of an Amorite homeland.
Cynthia Talbot
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195136616
- eISBN:
- 9780199834716
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195136616.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
After the fall of the Kakatiya capital, Warangal, to an army of the Delhi Sultanate in 1323, the Andhra region was not politically unified again until modern times. The local chiefs who flourished in ...
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After the fall of the Kakatiya capital, Warangal, to an army of the Delhi Sultanate in 1323, the Andhra region was not politically unified again until modern times. The local chiefs who flourished in subsequent centuries utilized the historical memory of the Kakatiya dynasty as a means of enhancing their own legitimacy. Although the historical traditions of the Kakatiyas were most persistent in Warangal, they were transmitted throughout South India by Telugu nayakas, or warriors of Andhra origin, as they migrated elsewhere in the military service of the expanding Vijayanagara empire. Memories of the Kakatiyas eventually reached down to the village level, as reflected in the traditional accounts collected by Colin Mackenzie in the early nineteenth century. Because later generations associated the Kakatiyas with the origins of a distinctive Telugu society dominated by local warriors, the Kakatiyas became an important focal point for the emergence of a Telugu identity.Less
After the fall of the Kakatiya capital, Warangal, to an army of the Delhi Sultanate in 1323, the Andhra region was not politically unified again until modern times. The local chiefs who flourished in subsequent centuries utilized the historical memory of the Kakatiya dynasty as a means of enhancing their own legitimacy. Although the historical traditions of the Kakatiyas were most persistent in Warangal, they were transmitted throughout South India by Telugu nayakas, or warriors of Andhra origin, as they migrated elsewhere in the military service of the expanding Vijayanagara empire. Memories of the Kakatiyas eventually reached down to the village level, as reflected in the traditional accounts collected by Colin Mackenzie in the early nineteenth century. Because later generations associated the Kakatiyas with the origins of a distinctive Telugu society dominated by local warriors, the Kakatiyas became an important focal point for the emergence of a Telugu identity.
Hyun Ok Park
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231171922
- eISBN:
- 9780231540513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171922.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Chapter 5 interprets the involuntary recollections of the Chinese Cultural Revolution that arose among Korean Chinese while working in South Korea as a sign of the historical repetition of violence.
Chapter 5 interprets the involuntary recollections of the Chinese Cultural Revolution that arose among Korean Chinese while working in South Korea as a sign of the historical repetition of violence.
Beate Dignas and R. R. R. Smith (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199572069
- eISBN:
- 9780191738739
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199572069.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, European History: BCE to 500CE
This book explores how memory intersects with and shapes religious traditions and cultural identities. It discusses how the memory layers that make up ancient history (social, religious, cultural) ...
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This book explores how memory intersects with and shapes religious traditions and cultural identities. It discusses how the memory layers that make up ancient history (social, religious, cultural) are represented and refracted in different contexts of the written and material remains of antiquity. Part I looks at religious pasts and the religious present in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian contexts, as well as the visual expression of specific identities, formed and forged over long periods of time. Part II is about defining religious identity and focuses on the apparently homogenous cultures that engage in a dialogue with their own past. Case studies show how selective commemoration and inventing the past shape particular religious identities. In Part III, which is about commemorating and erasing the past, contested versions of the past are interpreted in the context of particular cases in late antique Asia Minor. One looks at the Christian shaping of social memory in the lengthy epitaph of a bishop. Another looks at a carefully negotiated Christian erasure of selected parts of a community's religious memory represented in the 500-year-old images of its most prominent monument. Public memory in the ancient world was carefully managed.Less
This book explores how memory intersects with and shapes religious traditions and cultural identities. It discusses how the memory layers that make up ancient history (social, religious, cultural) are represented and refracted in different contexts of the written and material remains of antiquity. Part I looks at religious pasts and the religious present in Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian contexts, as well as the visual expression of specific identities, formed and forged over long periods of time. Part II is about defining religious identity and focuses on the apparently homogenous cultures that engage in a dialogue with their own past. Case studies show how selective commemoration and inventing the past shape particular religious identities. In Part III, which is about commemorating and erasing the past, contested versions of the past are interpreted in the context of particular cases in late antique Asia Minor. One looks at the Christian shaping of social memory in the lengthy epitaph of a bishop. Another looks at a carefully negotiated Christian erasure of selected parts of a community's religious memory represented in the 500-year-old images of its most prominent monument. Public memory in the ancient world was carefully managed.
Susan T. Falck
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496824400
- eISBN:
- 9781496824448
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496824400.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
The introduction provides historical background on Natchez, Mississippi, and the town’s most famous heritage tourism product, the Natchez Pilgrimage, founded in the early 1930s. Similar to earlier ...
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The introduction provides historical background on Natchez, Mississippi, and the town’s most famous heritage tourism product, the Natchez Pilgrimage, founded in the early 1930s. Similar to earlier expressions of historical memory in Natchez, the Pilgrimage home tours and pageants represented the romanticized values of the Old South and its Lost Cause. The town’s public and private historical memory following the Civil War through the Great Depression in the form of letters, emancipation parades, associations, militia groups, photography and other popular amusements are discussed. The history of the town in the aftermath of the Civil War and its impact on the formerly enslaved, the white planter class, elite free blacks, and social conditions following the war through the Great Depression are noted. The idea that historical memories are constantly in flux and frequently contested is discussed.Less
The introduction provides historical background on Natchez, Mississippi, and the town’s most famous heritage tourism product, the Natchez Pilgrimage, founded in the early 1930s. Similar to earlier expressions of historical memory in Natchez, the Pilgrimage home tours and pageants represented the romanticized values of the Old South and its Lost Cause. The town’s public and private historical memory following the Civil War through the Great Depression in the form of letters, emancipation parades, associations, militia groups, photography and other popular amusements are discussed. The history of the town in the aftermath of the Civil War and its impact on the formerly enslaved, the white planter class, elite free blacks, and social conditions following the war through the Great Depression are noted. The idea that historical memories are constantly in flux and frequently contested is discussed.
Hyun Ok Park
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780231171922
- eISBN:
- 9780231540513
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231171922.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
Chapter 1 formulates a transnational approach to the Korea question and embeds it in the larger historical and theoretical inquiry into modern sovereignty, the crisis of capitalism, and the ...
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Chapter 1 formulates a transnational approach to the Korea question and embeds it in the larger historical and theoretical inquiry into modern sovereignty, the crisis of capitalism, and the temporality of historical change.Less
Chapter 1 formulates a transnational approach to the Korea question and embeds it in the larger historical and theoretical inquiry into modern sovereignty, the crisis of capitalism, and the temporality of historical change.
Martin Jay
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195326222
- eISBN:
- 9780199944064
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195326222.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Culture
Allegorization, it has long been recognized, is an inevitable feature of all history writing. No matter how disinterested and neutral the historian tries to be, the very act of writing a meaningful ...
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Allegorization, it has long been recognized, is an inevitable feature of all history writing. No matter how disinterested and neutral the historian tries to be, the very act of writing a meaningful narrative fashioned out of an infinity of potentially relevant texts and contexts compels him or her to create a gap between what happened in an unrecoverable past and what is represented of that past in the present. Perhaps no candidate for allegorization has been riper for multiple interpretations in modern history, as Jeffrey Alexander clearly shows, than the bewildering mixture of acts, events, and incomprehensible suffering that has come to be called the Holocaust. This chapter examines the hard questions about the transferability of vicarious trauma from one culture to another, from one historical memory to another.Less
Allegorization, it has long been recognized, is an inevitable feature of all history writing. No matter how disinterested and neutral the historian tries to be, the very act of writing a meaningful narrative fashioned out of an infinity of potentially relevant texts and contexts compels him or her to create a gap between what happened in an unrecoverable past and what is represented of that past in the present. Perhaps no candidate for allegorization has been riper for multiple interpretations in modern history, as Jeffrey Alexander clearly shows, than the bewildering mixture of acts, events, and incomprehensible suffering that has come to be called the Holocaust. This chapter examines the hard questions about the transferability of vicarious trauma from one culture to another, from one historical memory to another.
HUGH M. THOMAS
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199251230
- eISBN:
- 9780191719134
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251230.003.0015
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Medieval History
An important support for the emergence of Englishness after the Norman conquest was the construct of England. This raises important questions about the relations between place and identity and about ...
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An important support for the emergence of Englishness after the Norman conquest was the construct of England. This raises important questions about the relations between place and identity and about how a large and highly abstract geographic designation could command loyalty and therefore influence questions of ethnicity. This was typical of a process known as the territorialisation of memory, by which ethnic identity can lead to a new conceptualisation of landscape through linking a place to a people and their historical memory. This chapter examines how a conceptualisation of the landscape and a sense of place influenced ethnicity. More specifically, it examines the survival of the concept of England after the conquest, and its contribution to the triumph of English identity. It argues that in contrast to Englishness, which became problematic because of the introduction of ethnic divisions and the creation of a non-English ruling elite, the concept of England remained largely unaffected by the conquest.Less
An important support for the emergence of Englishness after the Norman conquest was the construct of England. This raises important questions about the relations between place and identity and about how a large and highly abstract geographic designation could command loyalty and therefore influence questions of ethnicity. This was typical of a process known as the territorialisation of memory, by which ethnic identity can lead to a new conceptualisation of landscape through linking a place to a people and their historical memory. This chapter examines how a conceptualisation of the landscape and a sense of place influenced ethnicity. More specifically, it examines the survival of the concept of England after the conquest, and its contribution to the triumph of English identity. It argues that in contrast to Englishness, which became problematic because of the introduction of ethnic divisions and the creation of a non-English ruling elite, the concept of England remained largely unaffected by the conquest.
Oxana Shevel
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780804798457
- eISBN:
- 9781503600102
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804798457.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Oxana Shevel takes up the theme of historical memory as a central component of Ukrainian identity. Conceptions of history have become pivotal in understanding what it means to be Ukrainian, and in ...
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Oxana Shevel takes up the theme of historical memory as a central component of Ukrainian identity. Conceptions of history have become pivotal in understanding what it means to be Ukrainian, and in particular the nature of the relationship between Ukraine and Russia. Shevel seeks to explain why these issues have become so polarized and what paths might be open to handling the politics of memory in a way that is less divisive. She sees potential in the fact that a significant minority of survey respondents favors a pluralism in which individuals are free to maintain different interpretations of historical events. She examines Spain’s successful efforts to overcome the divides in that country as a possible positive model for Ukraine.Less
Oxana Shevel takes up the theme of historical memory as a central component of Ukrainian identity. Conceptions of history have become pivotal in understanding what it means to be Ukrainian, and in particular the nature of the relationship between Ukraine and Russia. Shevel seeks to explain why these issues have become so polarized and what paths might be open to handling the politics of memory in a way that is less divisive. She sees potential in the fact that a significant minority of survey respondents favors a pluralism in which individuals are free to maintain different interpretations of historical events. She examines Spain’s successful efforts to overcome the divides in that country as a possible positive model for Ukraine.
Sarah Clift
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823254200
- eISBN:
- 9780823261161
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823254200.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter draws on texts by Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt to establish the framework of the book as a whole. For both Arendt and Benjamin, the narrative form is the predominant expression of ...
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This chapter draws on texts by Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt to establish the framework of the book as a whole. For both Arendt and Benjamin, the narrative form is the predominant expression of historical memory, and this chapter emphasizes how both thinkers articulate its relation to the finitude of human experience by virtue of its having a beginning, middle, and an end. While Arendt argues that this structure has been lost in the open-endedness of modern conceptions of progress and Benjamin suggests that its loss has contributed to the demise of storytelling as individual remembrance, the latter nonetheless suggests that something of human finitude has been retained in modernity, even within its commitment to never-ending progress. In the course of the exploration, the chapter argues that this structure of open-endedness can provide a resource for theorizing historical narratives in terms of their withheld endings, or as an experience of reading about the past that is charged with a future-oriented suspense. It pursues this jarring experience of reading the past as one which has the potential to suspend or interrupt a straight-forward conception of linear time.Less
This chapter draws on texts by Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt to establish the framework of the book as a whole. For both Arendt and Benjamin, the narrative form is the predominant expression of historical memory, and this chapter emphasizes how both thinkers articulate its relation to the finitude of human experience by virtue of its having a beginning, middle, and an end. While Arendt argues that this structure has been lost in the open-endedness of modern conceptions of progress and Benjamin suggests that its loss has contributed to the demise of storytelling as individual remembrance, the latter nonetheless suggests that something of human finitude has been retained in modernity, even within its commitment to never-ending progress. In the course of the exploration, the chapter argues that this structure of open-endedness can provide a resource for theorizing historical narratives in terms of their withheld endings, or as an experience of reading about the past that is charged with a future-oriented suspense. It pursues this jarring experience of reading the past as one which has the potential to suspend or interrupt a straight-forward conception of linear time.
Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748634071
- eISBN:
- 9780748671069
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748634071.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Despite the Palestinian society's serious concern with its historical memory, the notion that the post 1948 Palestinian historical narrative has thus far not been told in its entirety, or, at least, ...
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Despite the Palestinian society's serious concern with its historical memory, the notion that the post 1948 Palestinian historical narrative has thus far not been told in its entirety, or, at least, that it has yet to find its full artistic expression, is still prevalent among writers and scholars. In this tendency, Palestinian history resembles other histories of exile and displacement, These are histories of trauma. In which past events emerge in the present as if they reoccur perpetually, and time stops. Palestinian cinema, in its attempt to invent, document and crystallize Palestinian history, confronts the trauma of 1948 in several ways. On the one hand, it attempts to construct a historical continuity, leading from the past to the present and the future. On the other hand, it freezes history either in a utopian, idyllic past, or in the events of exile and deportation that disrupted it and are revived as if they were part of the present. Historical processes dictate to a large extent to which side of the equation this cinema would turn. The book Landscape in the Mist encompasses the history of the Palestinian cinema, connecting it to the social and cultural history of the Palestinian people. It examines the different ways in which this cinema copes with the Palestinian historical memory and analyzes how this cinema has shaped the obstructed and deconstructedLess
Despite the Palestinian society's serious concern with its historical memory, the notion that the post 1948 Palestinian historical narrative has thus far not been told in its entirety, or, at least, that it has yet to find its full artistic expression, is still prevalent among writers and scholars. In this tendency, Palestinian history resembles other histories of exile and displacement, These are histories of trauma. In which past events emerge in the present as if they reoccur perpetually, and time stops. Palestinian cinema, in its attempt to invent, document and crystallize Palestinian history, confronts the trauma of 1948 in several ways. On the one hand, it attempts to construct a historical continuity, leading from the past to the present and the future. On the other hand, it freezes history either in a utopian, idyllic past, or in the events of exile and deportation that disrupted it and are revived as if they were part of the present. Historical processes dictate to a large extent to which side of the equation this cinema would turn. The book Landscape in the Mist encompasses the history of the Palestinian cinema, connecting it to the social and cultural history of the Palestinian people. It examines the different ways in which this cinema copes with the Palestinian historical memory and analyzes how this cinema has shaped the obstructed and deconstructed
Becky Thompson
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780252041167
- eISBN:
- 9780252099731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252041167.003.0006
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
“To You, I Belong” examines historical memory as an embodied concept. Teaching asks us to work with memories in our bodies. The memories that we store often defy coherent narratives, require us to ...
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“To You, I Belong” examines historical memory as an embodied concept. Teaching asks us to work with memories in our bodies. The memories that we store often defy coherent narratives, require us to patchwork sensation with emotion, an energetic presence with evidence shaken by time. The presence and insistence of historical memory inevitably asks us to make room for fear, grief, betrayal, and ambivalence. Dealing with historical memory isn’t easy—our own or our students’ memories. Working closely with the student life office, counseling services, and other support centers becomes crucial. At the same time, outsourcing emotional work to spaces beyond the classroom runs the risk of separating content from process, the mind from the body. This outsourcing can send a message that a teacher is not up to the task of witnessing student journeys. In the chapter, Thompson shares some examples of when students were willing to share an embodied presence in the classroom and what they teach through their courage.
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“To You, I Belong” examines historical memory as an embodied concept. Teaching asks us to work with memories in our bodies. The memories that we store often defy coherent narratives, require us to patchwork sensation with emotion, an energetic presence with evidence shaken by time. The presence and insistence of historical memory inevitably asks us to make room for fear, grief, betrayal, and ambivalence. Dealing with historical memory isn’t easy—our own or our students’ memories. Working closely with the student life office, counseling services, and other support centers becomes crucial. At the same time, outsourcing emotional work to spaces beyond the classroom runs the risk of separating content from process, the mind from the body. This outsourcing can send a message that a teacher is not up to the task of witnessing student journeys. In the chapter, Thompson shares some examples of when students were willing to share an embodied presence in the classroom and what they teach through their courage.
H. Rosi Song
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781382875
- eISBN:
- 9781781383988
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382875.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
Historical traumas persist because of the incapacity of a society to officially address the losses of the past. A look into how in the case of contemporary Spain, the failure of discussions about the ...
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Historical traumas persist because of the incapacity of a society to officially address the losses of the past. A look into how in the case of contemporary Spain, the failure of discussions about the past to lead to a present resolution reveals a structural problem. Recent recollections of the Transición reinforce feelings of both loss and nostalgia—nostalgia for a time when change seemed possible, despite the uncertainty, fear and violence of those years. Fuelled by the regret of missed opportunities and the frustration that not much has changed politically, the current attitude toward Spain’s democratisation is one of disenchantment. The chapter looks into these memories and their relationship to the present through affect and personal and generational connections.Less
Historical traumas persist because of the incapacity of a society to officially address the losses of the past. A look into how in the case of contemporary Spain, the failure of discussions about the past to lead to a present resolution reveals a structural problem. Recent recollections of the Transición reinforce feelings of both loss and nostalgia—nostalgia for a time when change seemed possible, despite the uncertainty, fear and violence of those years. Fuelled by the regret of missed opportunities and the frustration that not much has changed politically, the current attitude toward Spain’s democratisation is one of disenchantment. The chapter looks into these memories and their relationship to the present through affect and personal and generational connections.
Lisa Woolfork
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780252042775
- eISBN:
- 9780252051630
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5622/illinois/9780252042775.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Movements and Social Change
This essay explores the ways in which African American authors of that era reclaim the slave past as a site of memory for a nation eager to forget. Lucille Clifton’s Generations (1976), Alex Haley’s ...
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This essay explores the ways in which African American authors of that era reclaim the slave past as a site of memory for a nation eager to forget. Lucille Clifton’s Generations (1976), Alex Haley’s Roots (1976), Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada (1976), and Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) are the chapter’s main focus. These works resist the tide of historical amnesia and “lost cause” mythology that would minimize or relegate the enslaved to mere props in the larger Civil War drama of rupture and reconciliation. By centering the stories of the enslaved as ancestral foundations of post-civil rights black life, these authors promote a model for historical memory and genealogy that elevates black resilience.Less
This essay explores the ways in which African American authors of that era reclaim the slave past as a site of memory for a nation eager to forget. Lucille Clifton’s Generations (1976), Alex Haley’s Roots (1976), Ishmael Reed’s Flight to Canada (1976), and Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) are the chapter’s main focus. These works resist the tide of historical amnesia and “lost cause” mythology that would minimize or relegate the enslaved to mere props in the larger Civil War drama of rupture and reconciliation. By centering the stories of the enslaved as ancestral foundations of post-civil rights black life, these authors promote a model for historical memory and genealogy that elevates black resilience.
Tabea Alexa Linhard
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780804787390
- eISBN:
- 9780804791885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804787390.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Jewish Studies
Chapter 1 focuses on the literary depiction of Jewish exile and transit in Spain. Specifically, an analysis of two novels, Juana Salabert's Winter Velodrome and Antonio Muñoz Molina's Sepharad, ...
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Chapter 1 focuses on the literary depiction of Jewish exile and transit in Spain. Specifically, an analysis of two novels, Juana Salabert's Winter Velodrome and Antonio Muñoz Molina's Sepharad, centers on the ways in which nostalgia for Sepharad plays a crucial role in both novels. Winter Velodrome and Sepharad enact but also question the mythical return to the lost homeland Sepharad, a place that in both novels becomes ghostly, unreachable, and yet undeniably present. The chapter further reveals what nostalgia means today in relation to both the current debate on “historical memory” in Spain, and the representation of Holocaust survival in literary texts.Less
Chapter 1 focuses on the literary depiction of Jewish exile and transit in Spain. Specifically, an analysis of two novels, Juana Salabert's Winter Velodrome and Antonio Muñoz Molina's Sepharad, centers on the ways in which nostalgia for Sepharad plays a crucial role in both novels. Winter Velodrome and Sepharad enact but also question the mythical return to the lost homeland Sepharad, a place that in both novels becomes ghostly, unreachable, and yet undeniably present. The chapter further reveals what nostalgia means today in relation to both the current debate on “historical memory” in Spain, and the representation of Holocaust survival in literary texts.
Lisa Blee and Jean M. O'Brien
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781469648408
- eISBN:
- 9781469648422
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648408.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit ...
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Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit began to move and proliferate in ways one would not expect of generally stationary monuments tethered to place. The plaster model was donated to the artist's home state of Utah and prominently displayed in the state capitol; half a century later, it was caught up in a surprising case of fraud in the fine arts market. Versions of the statue now stand on Brigham Young University's campus; at an urban intersection in Kansas City, Missouri; and in countless homes around the world in the form of souvenir statuettes.
The surprising story of this monumental statue reveals much about the process of creating, commodifying, and reinforcing the historical memory of Indigenous people. Dallin's statue, set alongside the historical memory of the actual Massasoit and his mythic collaboration with the Pilgrims, shows otherwise hidden dimensions of American memorial culture: an elasticity of historical imagination, a tight-knit relationship between consumption and commemoration, and the twin impulses to sanitize and grapple with the meaning of settler-colonialism.Less
Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit began to move and proliferate in ways one would not expect of generally stationary monuments tethered to place. The plaster model was donated to the artist's home state of Utah and prominently displayed in the state capitol; half a century later, it was caught up in a surprising case of fraud in the fine arts market. Versions of the statue now stand on Brigham Young University's campus; at an urban intersection in Kansas City, Missouri; and in countless homes around the world in the form of souvenir statuettes.
The surprising story of this monumental statue reveals much about the process of creating, commodifying, and reinforcing the historical memory of Indigenous people. Dallin's statue, set alongside the historical memory of the actual Massasoit and his mythic collaboration with the Pilgrims, shows otherwise hidden dimensions of American memorial culture: an elasticity of historical imagination, a tight-knit relationship between consumption and commemoration, and the twin impulses to sanitize and grapple with the meaning of settler-colonialism.
James Carter
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195398854
- eISBN:
- 9780199894413
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195398854.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter comments on the author’s interaction with his subject, culminating in the discomfort some of Tanxu’s followers came to feel about the interpretation of their teacher’s life, and in ...
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This chapter comments on the author’s interaction with his subject, culminating in the discomfort some of Tanxu’s followers came to feel about the interpretation of their teacher’s life, and in particular how that interpretation could jeopardize current initiatives to revive or expand some of Tanxu’s former temples in ChinaLess
This chapter comments on the author’s interaction with his subject, culminating in the discomfort some of Tanxu’s followers came to feel about the interpretation of their teacher’s life, and in particular how that interpretation could jeopardize current initiatives to revive or expand some of Tanxu’s former temples in China
J. Patrick Hornbeck II
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780823282173
- eISBN:
- 9780823286232
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823282173.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This chapter introduces the subject of the book, namely, the myriad ways in which Thomas Wolsey has been represented and commemorated since his death in 1530. His name and image have been invoked in ...
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This chapter introduces the subject of the book, namely, the myriad ways in which Thomas Wolsey has been represented and commemorated since his death in 1530. His name and image have been invoked in a bewildering, and often surprising, variety of contexts, including retellings of the early English Reformation and narratives about the development of British democracy. It enumerates the major purposes for which cultural producers have told the story of Wolsey’s life, and situates this book’s contribution within recent scholarly discussions about collective memory and mnemohistory. The chapter distinguishes between mnemohistory and reception history and further describes how the terms memory, commemoration, and representation will be used throughout the book. It illustrates the book’s mnemohistorical method with a case study about the representation of Wolsey as obese. Finally, it previews the arguments of the chapters that follow.Less
This chapter introduces the subject of the book, namely, the myriad ways in which Thomas Wolsey has been represented and commemorated since his death in 1530. His name and image have been invoked in a bewildering, and often surprising, variety of contexts, including retellings of the early English Reformation and narratives about the development of British democracy. It enumerates the major purposes for which cultural producers have told the story of Wolsey’s life, and situates this book’s contribution within recent scholarly discussions about collective memory and mnemohistory. The chapter distinguishes between mnemohistory and reception history and further describes how the terms memory, commemoration, and representation will be used throughout the book. It illustrates the book’s mnemohistorical method with a case study about the representation of Wolsey as obese. Finally, it previews the arguments of the chapters that follow.
Kathleen M. German
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812353
- eISBN:
- 9781496812391
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812353.003.0011
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter reveals the enduring social consequences of World War II images of African Americans. The narrative of American history was altered to include black contributions, and the result was to ...
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This chapter reveals the enduring social consequences of World War II images of African Americans. The narrative of American history was altered to include black contributions, and the result was to construct a new racial identity for African Americans that reshaped historical memory and re-articulated racial identity. This chapter also investigates the long-term effects of re-ordered racial images on national identity.Less
This chapter reveals the enduring social consequences of World War II images of African Americans. The narrative of American history was altered to include black contributions, and the result was to construct a new racial identity for African Americans that reshaped historical memory and re-articulated racial identity. This chapter also investigates the long-term effects of re-ordered racial images on national identity.
Sarah Dayens
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719076213
- eISBN:
- 9781781702116
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719076213.003.0011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
Reggae music expresses a central will: the recognition of a history of struggle – against slavery, segregation and colonisation – which is logically attached to Jamaica, but also goes beyond its ...
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Reggae music expresses a central will: the recognition of a history of struggle – against slavery, segregation and colonisation – which is logically attached to Jamaica, but also goes beyond its borders. This historical memory has three main goals: first, to reveal a history of resistance considered as having been underestimated as well as hidden by Europeans; second, to restore dignity by showing that resistance started with the first captured slave; and third, to transmit this history of resistance, in particular to generations to come. The history of resistance, only ‘half told’, is cherished by the Rastafari movement and transmitted in reggae music, precisely because it has been distorted and mistold. Four major themes that build and form this history in reggae music can be identified: the Jamaican maroon communities and peasant revolts in Jamaica; Marcus Garvey; the figures of the black struggle in the United States; and the independence and anti-apartheid movements in Africa. The socio-political memory conveyed by reggae music concerns the Africans of the diaspora and the Africans of Africa.Less
Reggae music expresses a central will: the recognition of a history of struggle – against slavery, segregation and colonisation – which is logically attached to Jamaica, but also goes beyond its borders. This historical memory has three main goals: first, to reveal a history of resistance considered as having been underestimated as well as hidden by Europeans; second, to restore dignity by showing that resistance started with the first captured slave; and third, to transmit this history of resistance, in particular to generations to come. The history of resistance, only ‘half told’, is cherished by the Rastafari movement and transmitted in reggae music, precisely because it has been distorted and mistold. Four major themes that build and form this history in reggae music can be identified: the Jamaican maroon communities and peasant revolts in Jamaica; Marcus Garvey; the figures of the black struggle in the United States; and the independence and anti-apartheid movements in Africa. The socio-political memory conveyed by reggae music concerns the Africans of the diaspora and the Africans of Africa.
