There are few terms or concepts that have, in the last twenty or so
years, rivaled "collective memory" for attention in the humanities
and social sciences. Indeed, use of the term has extended far
beyond scholarship to the realm of politics and journalism, where
it has appeared in speeches at the centers of power and on the
front pages of the world's leading newspapers. The current
efflorescence of interest in memory, however, is no mere passing
fad: it is a hallmark characteristic of our age and a crucial site
for understanding our present social, political, and cultural
conditions. Scholars and others in numerous fields have thus
employed the concept of collective memory, sociological in origin,
to guide their inquiries into diverse, though allegedly connected,
phenomena. Nevertheless, there remains a great deal of confusion
about the meaning, origin, and implication of the term and the
field of inquiry it underwrites. The Collective Memory Reader
presents, organizes, and evaluates past work and contemporary
contributions on the questions raised under the rubric of
collective memory. Combining seminal texts, hard-to-find classics,
previously untranslated references, and contemporary landmarks, it
will serve as an essential resource for teaching and research in
the field. In addition, in both its selections as well as in its
editorial materials, it suggests a novel life-story for the field,
one that appreciates recent innovations but only against the
background of a long history. In addition to its major editorial
introduction, which outlines a useful past for contemporary memory
studies, The Collective Memory Reader includes five
sections-Precursors and Classics; History, Memory, and Identity;
Power, Politics, and Contestation; Media and Modes of Transmission;
Memory, Justice, and the Contemporary Epoch-comprising ninety-one
texts. In addition to the essay introducing the entire volume, a
brief editorial essay introduces each of the sections, while brief
capsules frame each of the 91 texts.
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