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Beyond the Archive - Memory, Narrative, and the Autobiographical Process (Hardcover)
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Beyond the Archive - Memory, Narrative, and the Autobiographical Process (Hardcover)
Series: Explorations in Narrative Psychology
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Our longstanding view of memory and remembering is in the midst of
a profound transformation. This transformation does not only affect
our concept of memory or a particular idea of how we remember and
forget; it is a wider cultural process. In order to understand it,
one must step back and consider what is meant when we say memory.
Brockmeier's far-ranging studies offer such a perspective,
synthesizing understandings of remembering from the neurosciences,
humanities, social studies, and in key works of autobiographical
literature and life-writing. His conclusions force us to radically
rethink our very notion of memory as an archive of the past, one
that suggests the natural existence of a distinctive human capacity
(or a set of neuronal systems) enabling us to "encode," "store,"
and "recall" past experiences. Now, propelled by new scientific
insights and digital technologies, a new picture is emerging. It
shows that there are many cultural forms of remembering and
forgetting, embedded in a broad spectrum of human activities and
artifacts. This picture is more complex than any notion of memory
as storage of the past would allow. Indeed it comes with a number
of alternatives to the archival memory, one of which Brockmeier
describes as the narrative approach. The narrative approach not
only permits us to explore the storied weave of our most personal
form of remembering-that is, the autobiographical-it also sheds new
light on the interrelations among memory, self, and culture.
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