Cultural Memory on the Move in Contemporary Travel Writing: W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Introduction: Cultural Memory and its Dynamics 1
4. I. Mediation
5. Cultural Memory on the Move in Contemporary Travel Writing: W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn 15
6. I Forgot to Remember (to Forget): Personal Memories in Memento (2000) and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 31
7. Old, Eternal, and Future Light in the Dutch East Indies: Colonial Photographs and the History of the Globe 49
8. The Limits of Transference: Theories of Memory and Photography in W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz 67
9. Digital Network Memory 91
10. II. Remediation
11. Remembering across Time, Space, and Cultures: Premediation, Remediation and the “Indian Mutiny” 109
12. Towards a Memory Dispositif: Truth, Myth, and the Ned Kelly lieu de mémoire, 1890-1930 139
13. Remediation as a Moral Obligation: Authenticity, Memory, and Morality in Representations of Anne Frank 157
14. III. The Public Arena
15. Performances, Souvenirs, and Music: The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria 1897 173
16. News Media and Historical Remembrance: Reporting on the Expulsion of Germans in Polish and German Magazines 187
17. Restitution and the Dynamics of Memory: A Neglected Trans-Generational Perspective 205
18. Literary Icons and the Religious Past in the Netherlands: Jan Wolkers and Gerard Reve 229
19. Backmatter 245