Volume 8, No. 3, Art. 25 – September 2007

Memory and Culture—Notes on the Concept of "Memory Cultures" Within Cultural Studies

Nina Leonhard (Germany)

Review Essay:

Günter Oesterle (Ed.) (2005). Erinnerung, Gedächtnis, Wissen. Studien zur kulturwissenschaftlichen Gedächtnisforschung [Memory and Knowledge. Studies on Memory from a Cultural Perspective]

Abstract: This book of collected papers, published by the DFG-Sonderforschungsbereich Erinnerungskulturen ("Memory Cultures") at the Justus Liebig University of Gießen, gives a broad overview of approaches and results of memory research within various disciplines. Despite many interesting insights, the book offers no general framework by which the different aspects analyzed by the authors could be classified and related to one another. Thus, the shortcomings of memory studies, from a cultural perspective and understood as an interdisciplinary, multidimensional research program, become visible.

Key words: cultural studies, identity, memory, memory culture(s), multidisciplinarity, media, structure(s) of knowledge, time and space

This contribution is only available as a full text in the German language. German text

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