Critical Memory Studies

Brett Ashley Kaplan directs the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies and is a Professor in the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her novel, Rare Stuff, was published in 2022 and she is the author of Unwanted Beauty, Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory, and Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth.

List of Figures
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Brett Ashley Kaplan

PART I Race-ing Memory
1. Critical Black Memory as Curatorial Praxis and Collective Care
La Tanya S. Autry
2. The Memory of Race
Sonali Thakkar
3. The Memory of Racial Terror: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice and the Legacy Museum
Marita Sturken

PART II Environmental Memory
4. Toward Slow Memory Studies
Jenny Wüstenberg
5. Ecological Mourning: Living with Loss in the Anthropocene
Stef Craps
6. Memory and Environmental Racism in the American Gulf States
Lucy Bond and Jessica Rapson
7. Widow’s Walk
Caroline Morris

PART III Conceptualizing Memory Studies
8. Memory in Liquid Time
Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer
9. A Case for Melancholy
Angelika Bammer
10. Memory Images, between Discourse and Representation
Philippe Mesnard

PART IV Monuments, Memorials, Museums, Memoirs
11. Negative Spaces and the Play of Memory: The Memorial Art of Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz
James E. Young
12. Spiral Memory: Mike Nelson’s The Coral Reef (2000), The Cosmic Legend of the Uroboros Serpent (2001), and The Amnesiacs (1996–)
Helen Hughes
13. Hanka
Miryam Sas
14. Breathe Me Home: A Remembrance via Thomas Andrew Dorsey’s “Take My Hand, Precious Lord”
Amy Hassinger
15. Belonged
Audrey Petty

PART V Memory, Memoriam
16. Memory
Sayed Kashua
17. Chasing Glowworms
Steve Stern
18. Disappearer
Dina Guidubaldi
19. In Memoriam
Chase Dimock

PART VI Enacting Memory Studies
20. Memory, Allegory, and the Plague: Albert Camus on Covid-19
Debarati Sanyal
21. Soviet 1960s Cinema and the Nuclear Catastrophe: Mikhail Romm’s Ordinary Fascism and Nine Days of One Year
Lilya Kaganovsky
22. Mapuche Hunger Strikes as a Performance of Re-membering
Ethan Madarieta
23. Hölderlin’s Memory, and Keats: Reading “Andenken” and “Mnemosyne”
Jeremy Tambling
24. When All Else Seems Lost, There Is Memory: Poetry and Politics in Kashmir and India
Suvir Kaul
25. Sunny
David Wright Faladé

PART VII Digital Memory
26. Digital Afterlives
Julia Creet and Silke Arnold-de Simine
27. Cartographies of Suffering: Mapping Holocaust Memory
Sharon B. Oster

Afterword
Noni Carter

Works Cited
Contributor Bios
Index