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 AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Brett Ashley KaplanPART 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, Memoirs11. Negative Spaces and the Play of Memory: The Memorial Art of Horst Hoheisel and Andreas Knitz James E. Young12. Spiral Memory: Mike Nelson’s The Coral Reef (2000), The Cosmic Legend of the Uroboros Serpent (2001), and The Amnesiacs (1996–)Helen Hughes13. Hanka Miryam Sas14. Breathe Me Home: A Remembrance via Thomas Andrew Dorsey’s “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” Amy Hassinger15. Belonged Audrey PettyPART V Memory, Memoriam16. Memory Sayed Kashua17. Chasing GlowwormsSteve Stern18. Disappearer Dina Guidubaldi19. In Memoriam Chase DimockPART VI Enacting Memory Studies20. Memory, Allegory, and the Plague: Albert Camus on Covid-19 Debarati Sanyal21. Soviet 1960s Cinema and the Nuclear Catastrophe: Mikhail Romm’s Ordinary Fascism and Nine Days of One Year Lilya Kaganovsky22. Mapuche Hunger Strikes as a Performance of Re-membering Ethan Madarieta23. 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 Kaul25. Sunny David Wright FaladéPART VII Digital Memory26. Digital Afterlives Julia Creet and Silke Arnold-de Simine27. Cartographies of Suffering: Mapping Holocaust Memory Sharon B. OsterAfterword Noni CarterWorks Cited Contributor Bios Index

Unique in its combination of creative and scholarly approaches to memory, this rich collection presents the cutting-edge of memory studies. Absolutely essential reading.