Memory Unbound

Lucy Bond is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Westminster and a founder of the London Cultural Memory Consortium. She is the author of Frames of Memory after 9/11: Culture, Criticism, Politics, and Law (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and a coeditor (with Jessica Rapson) of The Transcultural Turn: Interrogating Memory between and beyond Borders (De Gruyter, 2014).

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Memory on the MoveLucy Bond, Stef Craps, and Pieter VermeulenChapter 1. Staging Shared Memory: Je Veux voir and L’Empreinte de l’angeMax SilvermanChapter 2. Remembering the Indonesian Killings: The Act of Killing and the Global Memory ImperativeRosanne KennedyChapter 3.Transnational Memory and the Construction of History through Mass MediaAleida AssmannChapter 4. Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of the Romanian HolocaustMarianne Hirsch and Leo SpitzerChapter 5. Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow and Black British Writing in Times of Mnemonic TransitionAstrid ErllChapter 6. The Uses of Facebook for Examining Collective Memory: The Emergence of Nasser Facebook Pages in EgyptJoyce van de BildtChapter 7. Connective Memory: How Facebook Takes Charge of Your PastJosé van DijckChapter 8. Embodiments of Memory: Toward an Existential Approach to the Culture of ConnectivityAmanda LagerkvistChapter 9. Metaphorical Memories of the Medieval Crusades after 9/11Brian JohnsrudChapter 10. The Agency of Memory Objects: Tracing Memories of Soweto at Regina Mundi ChurchFrauke WiegandChapter 11. Cultural Memory Studies in the Epoch of the AnthropoceneRichard CrownshawChapter 12. “Filled with Words”: Modeling the September 11 Digital Archive and the Utility of Digital Methods in the Study of MemoryJessica K. YoungBibliographyIndex

“The volume provides a comprehensive examination of the field of memory studies, from a range of disciplines and approaches using global case studies. The dynamic compilation of essays is attentive to shifts in the field towards interdisciplinarity and provides a nuanced account of the dynamics of memory across various contexts…This volume of essays is a significant contribution to the field as it provides a critical understanding of memory across media and disciplines, and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working in the field of memory studies.” • Memory Studies“Memory Unbound is exemplary of the research and writing of the ‘third wave’ of memory studies. It heralds a new departure in keeping with the transforming effects of new technologies of communication, and conveys the energy and excitement attending the precipitous emergence and rapid development of this new realm of scholarship.” • Patrick Hutton, University of Vermont“This is a great book—provocative, timely, and thoughtful. It proposes a future for memory research that finds a place for new investigators to embed their ideas.” • Joanne Garde-Hansen, University of Warwick