Memory and culture are terms which are now fashionable, if not
over-used, but they need careful handling. This book explores their
use in a variety of contexts: in European creative writing, in the
spheres of national celebration, mourning, and administration of
the arts, and in concepts of translation and history. The editors'
introduction maps the surrounding theoretical terrain, and each of
the following twenty-two essays explores related issues within the
specific brief of a local context, whether in France, Germany,
Ireland, Italy or Spain, organized under five thematic lines of
enquiry: Memory as Counter-History, Narrativity and Remembering,
Locating Memory, Remembering and Renewal, Remembering as Trauma.
Coming into prominence after the Holocaust and the fall of European
dictatorships, studies in Cultural Memory have been fuelled by the
works of Walter Benjamin, Aby Warburg, the rediscovery of Maurice
Halbwachs, and more recently by Pierre Nora's notion of 'sites of
memory'. Furthermore, they have benefited from the reflections of a
range of contemporary theorists in this area, including Paul
Ricoeeur, Michel de Certeau and Jan Assman. The studies in this
volume, however, go beyond the present to show how, in earlier
times, the devices of memory and commemoration were exploited both
for and against the state. Within the sphere of the present, the
expression of memory in narrative is shown to be an essential
source of inspiration for the creative writer, discovering renewal
in a sense of loss.
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