Tellability, frame and silence

Savolainen, Ulla

doi:10.1075/ni.27.1.02sav

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“…It also testifies to the recurring problems of making histories of relationality heard: as much as the contributions by Bernal, West, Burkert, and many others are visible and much-read (Bernal in fact continues to appeal to a wide non-academic readership, including Afrocentric activist circles), the dominant memory of what the German classicist Joachim Latacz (1989) calls “Homer as the first poet of the occident” springs back again and again. Memory studies has worked with different concepts to make sense of such paradoxes: “frameworks” and “framing,” for example, “aphasia,” and more recently, “tellability” (see Savolainen, 2017).…”

Section: Archaic Constellations: Transculturality and Tellabilitymentioning

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Homer: A relational mnemohistory

Erll

2018

Memory Studies

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This article proposes to extend the prevalent short-term and presentist frameworks of research on transcultural memory and to consider its dynamics across long-term relational mnemohistories. After more than two and a half millennia, "Homer" and the Homeric epics still resonate in memory cultures across the world. But they are often erroneously cast as "European heritage" or "foundations of the West." This is the result of what I call a tenacious "Homeric genea-logic." Highlighting three moments in the relational mnemohistory of Homer, this article shows, first, that already during their emergence in the archaic age, the Homeric epics were relational objects; second, how during the Middle Ages Homer could arrive in Petrarch's Italy only as a product of relational remembering between the Roman and the Byzantine empires; and third, how twentieth-century literature (Joyce, Walcott) developed conscious modes of mnemonic relationality connecting diverse cultural memories. Relationality thus emerges as a key term for a reflexive memory culture today, a tool to overcome exclusive memory logics ("Homer as the heritage of Europe") while enabling the articulation of meaningful long-term transcultural memories ("Homer as relational heritage in Europe").

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Section: Archaic Constellations: Transculturality and Tellabilitymentioning

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Homer: A relational mnemohistory

Erll

2018

Memory Studies

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“…When the political and social atmosphere in Finland opened after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, war memories that until then had been shared mainly in inner family circles were finally able to be related in public (see Savolainen 2017). However, telling about difficult or traumatic experiences was not easy.…”

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From Silence to Recovery

Laurén

2018

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Paramilitary forces of Soviet partisans attacked villages and remote houses in the Finnish eastern borderlands during the Continuation War of 1941-1944. They burned houses, stole food and cattle, and killed women, children and elderly people. In post-war Finland these actions were not openly discussed before the late 1990s, and the long period of silence served to slow down or prevent recovery from these traumatic experiences. This article discusses the personal narratives of those who experienced the traumatic events of the Soviet Partisan War which took place in the Finnish borderlands, and the process of recovery that spanned the following 70 years. The research material consists of 16 narratives collected in 2017 using oral history interviews. The informants were Finnish civilians who had direct or indirect experience of the actions of Soviet partisans. The research is based on an oral history approach and the multidisciplinary research of trauma narration. It seeks to explore how traumatic experiences of the Soviet Partisan War are expressed in the personal oral history narratives, and how signals of trauma and recovery occur. Especially, the article points out the role of both remembering and narrating in the process of recovering from painful and traumatic experiences.

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“…Erll 2018) välittävät myös ennalta (premediate) kokemuksia ja muistia eli toisin sanoen ohjaavat tapoja ymmärtää ja tuottaa menneisyyttä nykyhetkessä ja tulevaisuudessa. Ne siis toimivat eräänlaisina kehyksinä, jotka mahdollistavat elämästä kertomisen ja tekevät muistoista kerrottavia kussakin nykyisyydessä mielekkäällä tavalla (Savolainen 2017b;Savolainen 2018).…”

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Lapsuuden loppu ja Inkerinmaa Juhani Konkan muistelmateoksissa

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2018

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Artikkeli tarkastelee kasvun teemaa sekä ylirajaisuutta Juhani Konkan kahdessa muistelmateoksessa Kahden maailman rajalla (1939) ja Pietarin valot (1958) kulttuurisen muistin näkökulmasta. Juhani Konkka (1904–1970) oli inkerinsuomalainen vuonna 1919 Inkerinmaalta Neuvosto-Venäjältä Suomeen siirtynyt kirjailija, toimittaja ja venäjänkielisen kirjallisuuden suomentaja. Konkan muistelmateokset avaavat kiinnostavan näkökulman Inkerinmaan dramaattiseen 1900-lukuun, siihen liittyviin kokemuksiin sekä Inkerin ylirajaiseen asemaan. Artikkelissa teoksia luetaan suhteessa modernin omaelämäkerran ja kehitysromaanin lajeihin. Teoksia tarkastellaan myös suhteessa niiden ilmestymisajankohtiin (1939 ja 1958) ja analysoidaan, miten omakohtaisen menneisyyden merkitykset muovautuvat teoksissa suhteessa erilaisiin nykyhetkiin. Artikkeli analysoi myös sitä, miten erilainen kehystys teoksen sisällä vaikuttaa samoille historiallisille tapahtumille ja kokemuksille kirjallisuudessa annettuihin merkityksiin.

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Tellability, frame and silence

Cited by 14 publications

References 23 publications

Homer: A relational mnemohistory

Homer: A relational mnemohistory

From Silence to Recovery

Lapsuuden loppu ja Inkerinmaa Juhani Konkan muistelmateoksissa

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