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Cultural Memory Studies

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Media and Cultural Memory/

Medien und

kulturelle Erinnerung

Edited by / Herausgegeben von

Astrid Erll · Ansgar Nünning

Editorial Board / Wissenschaftlicher Beirat

Aleida Assmann · Mieke Bal · Marshall Brown · Vita Fortunati

Udo Hebel · Claus Leggewie · Gunilla Lindberg-Wada

Jürgen Reulecke · Jean Marie Schaeffer · Jürgen Schlaeger

Siegfried J. Schmidt · Werner Sollors · Frederic Tygstrup

Harald Welzer

Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York

Cultural Memory Studies

An International

and Interdisciplinary Handbook

Edited by

Astrid Erll · Ansgar Nünning

in collaboration with

Sara B. Young

Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York

Printed on acid-free paper which falls within the guidelines of the ANSI

to ensure permanence and durability.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Cultural memory studies : an international and interdisciplinary hand-

book / edited by Astrid Erll, Ansgar Nünning.

p. cm.

Medien und kultu-

relle Erinnerung ; 8)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-3-11-018860-8 (alk. paper)

1. Culture Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Memory Cross-cul-

tural studies

Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Erll, Astrid. II. Nün-

ning, Ansgar.

HM621.C8534 2008

306.01

dc22

2008017708

ISSN 1613-8961

ISBN 978-3-11-018860-8

Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche

Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet

at http://dnb.d-nb.de.

book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or me-

chanical, including photocopy, recording or any information storage and retrieval system,

without permission in writing from the publisher.

Printed in Germany

Cover design: Christopher Schneider, Berlin

(Media and cultural memory ; 8

Preface and Acknowledgements

Cultural memory studies came into being at the beginning of the twentieth

century, with the works of Maurice Halbwachs on mémoire collective . In the

course of the last two decades this area of research has witnessed a verita-

ble boom in various countries and disciplines. As a consequence, the study

of the relations between culture and memory has diversified into a broad

range of approaches. Today, the complex issue of cultural memory is re-

markably interdisciplinary: Concepts of cultural memory circulate in his-

tory, the social and political sciences, philosophy and theology, psychol-

ogy, the neurosciences, and psychoanalysis, as well as in literary and media

studies. Sometimes these concepts converge; at other times they seem to

exclude one another; and all too often, researchers in one discipline seem

to take no notice of the work done in neighboring disciplines.

Moreover, cultural memory studies is a decidedly international field:

Important concepts have been generated in France, Germany, Great Brit-

ain, Italy, Canada, the United States, and the Netherlands. At the same

time, however, we have seen how nationally specific academic traditions

and language barriers have tended to impede the transfer of knowledge

about cultural memory.

The handbook project proceeds from the assumption that, more often

than not, the meaning and operational value of concepts of memory in

general and cultural memory in particular differ between diverse disci-

plines, disparate academic cultures, and different historical periods. With

the move towards greater interdisciplinarity, the exchange of such con-

cepts has considerably intensified. Through constant appropriation,

translation, and reassessment across various fields, concepts of cultural

memory have acquired new meanings, opening up new horizons of re-

search in the humanities as well as in the social and in the natural sciences.

To the extent that their meaning must, therefore, be constantly renegoti-

ated, a sustained enquiry into these concepts and a survey of the latest

research in cultural memory studies can foster a self-reflexive approach to

this burgeoning and increasingly diverse field, providing a theoretical,

conceptual, and methodological backbone for any project concerned with

questions of cultural memory.

The aim of this handbook is to offer the first truly integrated survey

of this interdisciplinary and international field of cultural memory studies.

The concise presentation of the main concepts of cultural memory studies

is intended not only to offer readers a unique overview of current research

in the field; it is also meant to serve as a forum for bringing together ap-

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