Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Cultural Memory Studies: An Introduction 1
4. I. Lieux de mémoire–Sites of Memory
5. Loci memoriae–Lieux de mémoire 19
6. Italian luoghi della memoria 27
7. Mitteleuropa as a lieu de mémoire 37
8. Sites of Memory in U.S.-American Histories and Cultures 47
9. Sites of Memory and the Shadow of War 61
10. II. Memory and Cultural History
11. Memory and the History of Mentalities 77
12. The Invention of Cultural Memory 85
13. Canon and Archive 97
14. Communicative and Cultural Memory 109
15. Generation/Generationality, Generativity, and Memory 119
16. Cultural Memory: A European Perspective 127
17. III. Social, Political, and Philosophical Memory Studies
18. Maurice Halbwachs’s mémoire collective 141
19. From Collective Memory to the Sociology of Mnemonic Practices and Products 151
20. Memory in Post-Authoritarian Societies 163
21. Memory and Politics 173
22. Social Forgetting: A Systems-Theory Approach 181
23. Memory and Remembrance: A Constructivist Approach 191
24. Memory and Forgetting in Paul Ricoeur s Theory ofthe Capable Self 203
25. IV. Psychological Memory Studies
26. Psychology, Narrative, and Cultural Memory: Past and Present 215
27. Against the Concept of Cultural Trauma 229
28. Experience and Memory: Imaginary Futures in the Past 241
29. A Cognitive Taxonomy of Collective Memories 253
30. Language and Memory: Social and Cognitive Processes 263
31. Cultural Memory and the Neurosciences 275
32. Communicative Memory 285
33. V. Literature and Cultural Memory
34. Mnemonic and Intertextual Aspects of Literature 301
35. Cultural Memory and the Literary Canon 311
36. Life-Writing, Cultural Memory, and Literary Studies 321
37. The Literary Representation of Memory 333
38. The Dynamics of Remembrance: Texts Between Monumentality and Morphing 345
39. VI. Media and Cultural Memory
40. The Texture of Memory: Holocaust Memorials in History 357
41. The Photograph as Externalization and Trace 367
42. Journalism’s Memory Work 379
43. Literature, Film, and the Mediality of Cultural Memory 389
44. Memory and Media Cultures 399
45. Backmatter 409