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TC Memory Studies

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  • Profile picture of Subarno Chattarji

    Subarno Chattarji deposited “Writing about War”: Dương Thu Hương’s Representations of the Vietnam-American War in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 1 month ago

    While 30 April 1975 represented the end of hostilities between North and South Vietnam, it was not the end of internecine conflicts. The victorious communists treated Southerners with contempt and subjected them to humiliation and violence, including incarceration in so-called re-education camps. Dương Thu Hương served in the Women’s Youth Briga…[Read more]

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    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Suppressed Nakba Memories in Palestinian female narratives Susan Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water and Radwa Ashour’s The Woman from Tantoura in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 1 year, 10 months ago

    Israeli officials have long denied that rape was used as an instrument of war against Palestinians. Most of the files relating to the expulsion of Palestinians during the Nakba in 1948 and its aftermath remain sealed in Israeli archives and have been reclassified as top secret. Palestinian oral narratives have long been considered a poor…[Read more]

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    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Virtual Space: Palestinians Negotiate a Lost Homeland in Film in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 2 years, 10 months ago

    In his seminal study, Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, Eyal Weizman argues how the Israeli occupation has forced a new imagined space to emerge, which is at once confining to the Palestinians and increases their sense of marginalization and loss. Changing the landscape through imposing architecture construction is a way to…[Read more]

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    Marisa Parham deposited 17, or, Tough, Dark, Vulnerable, Moody: James Baldwin in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months ago

    In its encounter with James Baldwin across form— “Letter to my nephew,” “Sonny’s Blues,” and archival footage of Baldwin being interviewed by the psychologist Kenneth Clark— this article offers an exploration of how Baldwin’s figuration of children and his own acts of care illuminate the political possibilities of both filiation and aff…[Read more]

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    Marisa Parham deposited Hughes, Cullen, and the In-sites of Loss in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 3 years, 8 months ago

    This essay explores how Pierre Nora’s sites of memory work a specific cultural function through what Melvin Dixon refers to as “a memory that ultimately rewrites history.” I look at two of the most well-known poems of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes’s “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and Countee Cullen’s “Heritage,” one of which reveals a…[Read more]

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    Marlene Manoff deposited Archive and Library in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 4 years ago

    Archives and libraries operate within a complex web of social, political and economic forces. Digital technologies, globalization, the corporatization of the academy, and increasing commercial control of the scholarly record are just some of the myriad forces shaping their evolution. Libraries and archives in turn have shaped the production of…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Hania A.M. Nashef

    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Coming of Age in Troubled Times: Son of Babylon and Theeb in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 4 years, 6 months ago

    Jordan and Iraq are not countries that are often associated with a local film culture. Recently, however, a nascent film industry has started to grow in both Iraq and Jordan, producing films that have been shown in international film festivals. Even though the Jordanian film industry remains in its infancy, the films that have emerged of late…[Read more]

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    Rosanne Kennedy posted an update in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 3 months ago

    Dear Memory Studies Colleagues,
    I’m pleased to have been nominated for the Executive Committee for Memory Studies, and wanted to tell you about my activities. My early work (World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time, ed with Jill Bennett, 2003) stimulated dialogue between postcolonial studies and memory studies. I examined memory and t…[Read more]

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    Lee B. Abraham started the topic CfP: Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces – NeMLA 2018 in the discussion Group logo of TC Memory StudiesMemory Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 8 months ago

    Call for Papers:

    Approaches to Teaching and Learning with Urban Spaces

    49th Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
    “Global Spaces, Local Landscapes and Imagined Worlds”
    April 12-15, 2018, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    NeMLA Web Site: http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention.html

    The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries…[Read more]

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    Marlene Manoff deposited Archival Silence in the Age of Trump in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 5 years, 10 months ago

    The Trump presidency has fueled growing apprehension about a media landscape rife with lies, bogus news, and conspiracy theories. These concerns can be situated within a discourse of archival silence which questions the ways in which knowledge may be concealed, misappropriated and exploited in the service of governments, corporations and…[Read more]

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    Martha Dana Rust started the topic Teaching Memory Studies — MLA 2017 in the discussion Group logo of TC Memory StudiesMemory Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 1 month ago

    <p>The special session “Teaching Memory Studies” (session 154, Thursday, January 5, 7:00-8:15 PM, Franklin 12 Philadelphia Marriott) will contribute to the growing conversation around incorporating the discipline of memory studies into the study of literature while also pushing the boundaries of memory studies pedagogy in literature courses bey…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Louise Bethlehem

    Louise Bethlehem deposited Genres of Identification: Holocaust Testimony and Postcolonial Witness in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    This chapter explores the strange intimacies of dis/avowal that obtain between Holocaust studies and postcolonial theory, with particular reference to writing by Aimé Césaire and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. For all that the Jewish body remains, by and large, unmourned in the canonical texts of postcolonial theory, the Holocaust has, I seek to a…[Read more]

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    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwishs Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    In his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land witho…[Read more]

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    Zakir Majumder deposited Letters of 1971: The Politics and Poetics of Correspondence in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    This study is premised upon my experience of translating _Ekattorer Chithi_ (Bengali title) or _Letters of 1971_ (English version of the title), an anthology of letters written by the freedom fighters of the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, into English. Letters of 1971, a collection of letters, diverse as they are in meaning and…[Read more]

  • Profile picture of Hania A.M. Nashef

    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited Challenging the myth of “a land without a people”: Mahmoud Darwish’s Journal of an Ordinary Grief and In the Presence of Absence in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 3 months ago

    n his address at the Madrid Peace Conference, the Head of the Palestinian Delegation, Dr Haidar Abdul-Shafi challenged the persistent myth that has defined Palestinian existence for at least a century by saying: “For too long the Palestinian people have gone unheeded, silenced […] we have been victimized by the myth of ‘a land without a peopl…[Read more]

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    Laila Amine deposited Crossroads of Memory in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months ago

    In the last six years, scholars have engaged with the effects of globalization on the study of collective memory, emphasizing the de-territorialization, de-nationalization of memory cultures. While being attentive to the global circulation and transformation of collective memories, authors in this issue seek to revisit and critique some…[Read more]

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    Laila Amine deposited Double Exposure: The Family Album and Alternate Memories in Leïla Sebbar’s The Seine was Red in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 7 months ago

    Amine’s essay explores memory-making and highlights a paradox in
    Leı¨la Sebbar’s The Seine was Red, a novel that describes the conflicting memories of the police massacre of Algerians in Paris on 17 October 1961. Structured as a family album with captioned identities, place, and time, Sebbar’s novel employs a mode of remembrance that convent…[Read more]

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    Hania A.M. Nashef deposited “Not to Get Lost in the Loss”: Narrating the Story in Mourid Barghouti’s I Was Born There, I Was Born Here and in Deborah Rohan’s The Olive Grove – A Palestinian Story.” in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 10 months ago

    In his introduction to Mourid Barghouti novel, I saw Ramallah, Edward Said refers to the Palestinians as a displaced and a misplaced people. Regardless of the nationalities they carry or countries they live in, they carry with them the trauma of events that led to the loss of their homeland, and the grief of this loss and endless displacement.…[Read more]

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    Serguei Alex. Oushakine deposited Postcolonial Estrangements: Claiming a Space between Stalin and Hitler. in the group Group logo of TC Memory StudiesTC Memory Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 11 months ago

    In this essay, I follow debates about forms and sites of memorialization in post- Soviet Belarus. Begun during perestroika, the public discussions about Khatyn’ and Kuropaty eventually evolved into persistent attempts to realign the Soviet past along new narrative axes. Most prominently, this discursive reformatting of the socialist experience w…[Read more]

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    Kyle Pivetti started the topic CFP: Alternate Histories, Alternate Memories (MLA 2017) in the discussion Group logo of TC Memory StudiesMemory Studies on MLA Commons 6 years, 12 months ago

    In examples like Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle or Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, we can see the alternate history genre imagine a multitude of possible pasts, both national and individual. It is those possibilities that lead critics to investigate the constructedness of history and notions of past and future. This pro…[Read more]

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