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Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts
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Abstract The essays in 'Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts' draw on literary criticism, post-qualitative inquiry, new materialism, and political activism to dismember and reanimate the field of memory studies. In the trickbox, concepts rub up against each other, pieces chip off, things ... view more
The essays in 'Trickbox of Memory: Essays on Power and Disorderly Pasts' draw on literary criticism, post-qualitative inquiry, new materialism, and political activism to dismember and reanimate the field of memory studies. In the trickbox, concepts rub up against each other, pieces chip off, things leak, glitter gets everywhere. Things are damaged, their edges are ragged. Some show the potential for repair in the future. The chapters in this volume respond to the observation that in today's moment of political danger, 'expected' pasts can easily be instrumentalized in the service of fascism. 'Trickbox of Memory' interrupts the "expected" to throw history into disarray by focusing on the subtlety of how power relations are enacted and contested in reference to the past, assembling a transnational constellation of scholars and practitioners who offer new tricks for working critically with disorderly pasts.... view less
Keywords
collective memory; responsibility; justice; coming to terms with the past; reminiscence
Classification
History
Free Keywords
memory; power; generative critique; history; post-qualitative inquiry
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Publisher
punctum books
City
Goleta, CA
Page/Pages
176 p.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0298.1.00
ISBN
978-1-953035-25-7
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0
FundingThe publication was supported by the Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Association.