The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture

Crownshaw, Richard

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“…In dealing with frameworks such as these, researchers working from anthropological, historical, literary and cultural studies perspectives increasingly favour the term 'transcultural memory' (see Crownshaw 2010). As I have suggested elsewhere (Erll 2010(Erll , 2011, this term allows us to move away from the methodological nationalism, and especially the 'nation-culture bind', that has characterized much of memory studies to date, and instead to focus on those aspects of remembering and forgetting which are located between, across, and beyond what we construct as 'cultures'.…”

Section: Iii16 Global Memory Studiesmentioning

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“…And indeed, what we are facing today is a veritable trauma industry, proliferating in public discussions, literature, film, and academia. The ethical consequences of literary trauma studies' tendency to personify texts, to conflate literary works with real people, have been considered by Hungerford (2003; for further discussion see also Crownshaw 2010).…”

Section: Iii24 Memory In Literature: the Staging Of Memorymentioning

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Memory in Culture

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2011

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The nascent field of Memory Studies emerges from contemporary trends that include a shift from concern with historical knowledge of events to that of memory, from 'what we know' to 'how we remember it'; changes in generational memory; the rapid advance of technologies of memory; panics over declining powers of memory, which mirror our fascination with the possibilities of memory enhancement; and the development of trauma narratives in reshaping the past.These factors have contributed to an intensifi cation of public discourses on our past over the last thirty years. Technological, political, interpersonal, social and cultural shifts affect what, how and why people and societies remember and forget. This groundbreaking series tackles questions such as: What is 'memory' under these conditions? What are its prospects, and also the prospects for its interdisciplinary and systematic study? What are the conceptual, theoretical and

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Section: Iii16 Global Memory Studiesmentioning

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Section: Iii24 Memory In Literature: the Staging Of Memorymentioning

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Memory in Culture

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2011

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“…First of all, it was doubted whether it would be possible to convincingly justify an intergenerational transmission that would command anyone to treat someone else's experiences as their own. It was also pointed out that distinguishing between the version of history acquired, for example, from textbooks, and inherited experiences may not be feasible in practice, since, ultimately, all memory procedures depend on recalling, consciously or unconsciously, past events and on attempting to face them (Weissman 2004;Crownshaw 2010). Furthermore, indicating fundamental differences between various forms of historical reconstruction seemed unrealistic, regardless of whether such reconstructions were undertaken by a direct, "non-professional" heir of the trauma or by a professional historian; in each case, the experience of history is mediated and subject to transformations, resulting from both external factors and individual conditions (Sarlo 2005: 130).…”

Section: Postmemorymentioning

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Literary Translation as a Medium of Travelling Memory

Gaszyńska‐Magiera¹

2019

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Memory has been one of the main topics of universal literature, and nowadays postmemorial prose is an important trend in Polish literature. This leads to the question whether the specific character of this literature poses a distinctive challenge for translators, and consequently, whether its translations should be treated as a separate issue within the field of translation studies. In turn, the latest research on memory shows that contemporary societies are built of numerous social groups, which time and again have conflicting interests and consequently, cultivate different memory practices regarding the same past events. Memory is treated as a dynamic phenomenon, undergoing transformations through time and space, and hence is constantly actualised. There are five factors which determine the movement of memory: carriers, media, contents, practices and forms. Memory can "travel" thanks to various kinds of media, e.g. monuments. Another specific medium of memory is translation: it allows the contents of memory included in the source work to travel to another cultural space. This has allowed us to approach literary translation from a fresh perspective and developed a set of new research directions, which have been listed in this paper.

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“…Powątpiewano przede wszystkim w możliwość przekonującego udowodnienia takiej transmisji międzypokoleniowej, która kazałaby cudze przeżycia traktować jako osobiste. Wskazywano ponadto, że odróżnienie wersji historii poznanej chociażby z kart podręczników od doświadczeń odziedziczonych może się okazać niewykonalne w praktyce, skoro w ostatecznym rachunku wszystkie procedury pamięciowe polegają na przywoływaniu, świadomym bądź nie, zdarzeń z przeszłości i próbie zmierzenia się z nimi (Weissman 2004;Crownshaw, 2010). Co więcej, wskazanie zasadniczych różnic między formami rekonstrukcji historycznych wydawało się nierealne, bez względu na to, czy takie rekonstrukcje podejmuje bezpośredni, "nieprofesjonalny" spadkobierca traumy czy zawodowy historyk, gdyż w każdym przypadku doświadczenie historii jest zapośredniczone i podlega transformacjom, będącym wynikiem zarówno czynników zewnętrznych, jak i uwarunkowań indywidualnych (Sarlo 2005: 130) 8 .…”

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Przekład literacki jako medium podróży pamięci

Gaszyńska‐Magiera¹

2019

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Literary Translation as a Medium of Travelling Memory Memory has been one of the main topics of the universal literature and nowadays postmemorial prose is an important trend of the Polish literature. A question arises whether the specific character of these works constitutes a peculiar challenge for translators and, thus, whether their translations should be treated as a separate issue within the field of translation studies. Recent memory studies show that contemporary societies consist of many social groups which often have conflicting interests and, therefore, they cultivate different memory practices regarding the same past events. Memory is treated as a dynamic phenomenon, which may be transformed in time and space, so it is constantly actualized. There are five factors which determine movements of memory: carriers, media, contents, practices and forms. Memory may travel thanks to media of different kind, e.g. monuments. Translation can be considered a memory medium, too; it allows memory contents to travel to another cultural space. This approach lets us look at literary translations from a fresh perspective and, consequently, develop a set of new research directions. This article aims at listing some of them.

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The Afterlife of Holocaust Memory in Contemporary Literature and Culture

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