poetic – Ingatan

Post-memory, as espoused by Marianne Hirsch (2012) is “a powerful and very particular form of memory precisely because its connection to its object or source is mediated not through recollection but through an imaginative investment.” I extend Hirsch’s work on post-memory by arguing that a collective transgenerational memory creates its own poetics.

Why Memory Studies

As an all-encompassing sociocultural phenomenon, memory plays an important role in various areas of social practice. The calendar of commemorations –national, religious, ethnic– seems to be ever-increasing. Remembering and forgetting are major themes in contemporary literature and art. Memory enjoys practically top billing in daily and weekly newspapers. It has become a controversial topic in politics and the public sphere (in the context of phrases such as ‘national tradition’, ‘Holocaust memory’, or ‘truth and reconciliation’). And memory even occupies us in our free time, in the form of thriving heritage industry. [Astrid Erll, Memory in Culture]

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Memory Studies Seminar Series (II) by Anita Harris Satkunananthan