Chapter 8 Embodiments of Memory: Toward an Existential Approach to the Culture of Connectivity

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction: Memory on the Move 1
5. Part I Transcultural Memory
6. Chapter 1 Staging Shared Memory: Je Veux voir and L’Empreinte de l’ange 29
7. Chapter 2 Remembering the Indonesian Killings: The Act of Killing and the Global Memory Imperative 47
8. Chapter 3 Transnational Memory and the Construction of History through Mass Media 65
9. Part II Transgenerational Memory
10. Chapter 4 Small Acts of Repair: The Unclaimed Legacy of the Romanian Holocaust 83
11. Chapter 5 Fictions of Generational Memory: Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow and Black British Writing in Times of Mnemonic Transition 109
12. Chapter 6 The Uses of Facebook for Examining Collective Memory: The Emergence of Nasser Facebook Pages in Egypt 131
13. Part III Transmedial Memory
14. Chapter 7 Connective Memory: How Facebook Takes Charge of Your Past 151
15. Chapter 8 Embodiments of Memory: Toward an Existential Approach to the Culture of Connectivity 173
16. Chapter 9 Metaphorical Memories of the Medieval Crusades after 9/11 195
17. Part IV Transdisciplinary Memory
18. Chapter 10 The Agency of Memory Objects: Tracing Memories of Soweto at Regina Mundi Church 221
19. Chapter 11 Cultural Memory Studies in the Epoch of the Anthropocene 242
20. Chapter 12 “Filled with Words” Modeling the September 11 Digital Archive and the Utility of Digital Methods in the Study of Memory 258
21. Index 277