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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 151–159.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., and the enormity of the crime eclipses the specific historical and cultural implications at stake in our contemporary moment. The essay calls on memory theorists to more aggressively scrutinize less ubiquitous, even previously peripheral histories tied to the interconnected legacies of colonialism, state terror...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 114–126.
Published: 01 October 2019
... dementia memory loss Irene Dische Atom Egoyan It is a verity of Holocaust commemoration in the twenty-first century that the event is turning from one in living memory to one of historical record, as the last survivors and eyewitnesses die. The cultural significance of this change has been...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 36–48.
Published: 01 November 2024
.... The manner and extent to which emergent online grief and memorialization practices intersect with, replace, or supplement more established traditional and cultural grieving practices in Te Ao Māori (Māori World) are given consideration with respect to Westernized self-related motivations that underpin...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 20–34.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Xavier Aldana Reyes Abstract This article unpacks the cultural work that Juan Carlos Medina’s Insensibles , released in English as Painless , carries out in relation to Spain’s modern history and argues that the film’s painless children are an allegory of the country’s postdictatorship generations...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 143–150.
Published: 01 October 2019
... achieves in these images. This essay forwards a two-pronged argument. First, the experimentation with the collage-style merging of histories of oppression is an exercise in memorializing. Second, memorialization—by which I mean committing to cultural memory through various strategies, discursive...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 187–189.
Published: 01 October 2020
... artistic forms. The three articles under consideration here reveal the fascinating range of recent experiments in making the migrant experience part of the fabric of cultural memory. ...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (1): 48–64.
Published: 01 April 2024
...: to question existing ontologies of knowledge, and to examine how memory persists in a range of cultural practices that the archive dismisses as either silence or ephemera. Reclaiming the distinctions between these voices, and reading them in relation to the different knowledge systems that produce...
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English Language Notes (2012) 50 (2): 151–153.
Published: 01 September 2012
... at the Dawn o f Secularism, in the Cultural Memory in the Present Series (Stanford University Press, 2008); The Curse o f Cain: The Violent Legacy o f Monotheism (nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, University of Chicago Press, 1997); Remembering and Repeating (Cambridge University Press, 1988; reprinted...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (1): 166–180.
Published: 01 April 2021
...” 17 celebrate urban centers whose cultural identity was prominently shaped by the Jewish and Andalusian quarters settled by Iberian migrants, and that developed into creolized enclaves of diasporic cultural memories and practices. In his sonnet “Fez” McKay would enigmatically recall an Arab paramour...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 109–120.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., youthful memory. This artifacting, the intentional degradation of sound and image quality, creates “fizz” or “crackle” 35 —a sonic hauntology charged with the memory intensification symptomatic of a widespread trauma culture. Reflecting Bond and Craps’s claim, such subject matter encompasses...
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English Language Notes (2017) 55 (1-2): 135–142.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., and general trends, raises a theoretical problem suggested by the term ecom em ory the tension between the environment (the entire material cultural surround at any scale, either built or natural) and memory (here, artistic acts of simulated recollection th a t enhance, supple­ ment, or critique empirical...
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English Language Notes (2006) 44 (2): 323–327.
Published: 01 September 2006
... published in Signs: A Jo u rn a l o f W om en in Culture and Society, The Jo u rn a l fo r the S cie n tific S tu d y o f Religion, and The S o cio lo g y o f Religion. She is currently engaged in a study o f gender and cultural memory. Karen Jacobs Is Associate Professor o f English and Com parative...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (3): 38–49.
Published: 01 March 2003
... that these disparate peoples must rem em ber their com­ mon origin. Only through men whether cultural memory or the memory created through scientific investigation, can the dis­ parate peoples of the United States ameliorate their differences and establish sympathy of feeling between them. Fairfield University...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 7–21.
Published: 01 October 2019
..., pathways and roads, burial areas, planting grounds, medicine gathering areas—were cultural landscapes intimately known to the community members who had built and maintained them and surely were replete with fine-grained memories about family and collective trials and tribulations in the long postwar period...
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English Language Notes (2024) 62 (2): 133–136.
Published: 01 November 2024
... the autonomy of art, its intrinsic value and international appeal, with the aim of greater integration in world literature. 7 Achilli, like Ivashkiv, emphasizes 2014 as a turning point for Ukrainian culture. For him, thematization of memory is a strikingly persistent feature of Ukrainian poetry written...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 86–98.
Published: 01 October 2019
... on two contemporary novels of the African diaspora: Aminatta Forna’s The Memory of Love and Delia Jarrett-Macauley’s Moses, Citizen, and Me . Narrating local forms of survival in post–civil war Sierra Leone, these novels use animist modes of consciousness to theorize the collective trauma...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 99–113.
Published: 01 October 2019
....” That the American South is the ethos is critical to Raboteau and Senna because of that region’s particular presentation of “immobility”: it is a site of contested memory, of paternal ambivalence, of violence and trauma, and of extraordinary significance in American cultural history. What the fathers invariably find...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 71–85.
Published: 01 October 2019
... multiple sources by availing herself of salvaging and othermothers such as memories and rememories of Rose, Hurricane Katrina, Medea, China, and her brothers Randall, Skeetah, and Junior. Othermothers in African American cultural traditions encompass “woman-centered networks of mother and daughters...
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English Language Notes (2003) 40 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 March 2003
... destroys and consumes what he cannot have.36 The poet, in his discussion of G rendel s nam e, suggests that the creature him ­ self, and his name, are shrouded in distant cultural memory and that the name existed long before H eorot or H roògar s reign there. After G rendel s m other has come to the hall...
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English Language Notes (2019) 57 (2): 160–167.
Published: 01 October 2019
...Kathleen James-Chakraborty Abstract Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, contains the United States’ most comprehensive and controversial set of memorials commemorating the Confederacy. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, women as well as men from families that had formerly...
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