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Beyond Memory - Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance (Hardcover)
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Beyond Memory - Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
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Beyond Memory: Silence and the Aesthetics of Remembrance analyses
the intricate connections between silence, acts of remembrance and
acts of forgetting, and relates the topic of silence to the
international research field of Cultural Memory Studies. It engages
with the most recent work in the field by viewing silence as a
remedy to the traditionally binary approach to our understanding of
remembering and forgetting. The international team of contributors
examine case studies from colonialism, war, politics and slavery
from across the globe, as well as drawing examples from literature,
philosophy and sites of memory to draw three main conclusions.
Firstly, that the relationship between remembering and forgetting
is relational rather than 'hermetic', and the space between the two
is often occupied by silence. Secondly, silence is a force in
itself, capable of stimulating more or less remembrance. Finally,
that silence is a necessary and key element in the interaction
between the human mind and the 'outer world', and enables people to
challenge their understanding of art, music, literature, history
and memory. With an introduction by the editors discussing Memory
Studies, and concluding remarks by Astrid Erll, this collection
demonstrates that acceptance and consideration of silence as having
both a performative and aesthetic dimension is an essential
component of history and memory studies.
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