This volume attempts to gauge individual and social issues related to memory, understanding Memory studies as an independent body of scholarship. It draws on multiple fields of knowledge, like popular culture, history, literature, oral cultures and storytelling, which facilitates a panoramic view of memory studies.
This interdisciplinary volume attempts to gauge the individual and social issues related to memory, with an understanding of memory studies as an independent body of scholarship. It draws on multiple fields of knowledge, like popular culture, history, literature, oral cultures, and storytelling, which facilitates a panoramic view of memory studies.
This book investigates the intersection between memory studies, partition, oral literature, and digital technology. It is also informed by the consciousness of memory in the digital age, which plays an integral role in what is remembered/forgotten, the form in which such memories are stored, and how they might be retrieved in future.
This book will be an invaluable resource for those involved in research from undergraduate to post-doctoral level. This includes sociologists, psychologists, historians, artists, academicians, as well as research scholars from other disciplines.
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Memory Studies in Digital Age offers a fascinating panoply of memory studies in the present age. With its essays on digital technologies, storytelling, and identity it showcases the interdisciplinary scope of the field. The books focus on the Indian subcontinent provides rich new insights into hitherto under-researched constellations of memory.
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Astrid Erll (The Frankfurt Memory Studies Platform, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Introduction PART I: The Mnemonics of Storytelling and Memory studies
1.
Storytelling as a Cultural Practice: Memory, Emancipation, and Survival as
Sites of Resistance
2. In Search of Fragments of Recollection: Cultural
Memory and Identity in the Select Travel Narratives of Tahir Shah
3.
Contextualising Memory Studies in Bedtime Stories: Understanding the Praxis
of Formative Literary Frameworks PART II: Digital Technologies: A Powerful
Medium of Memory
4. Remediating Karna: A Critique of the Canon and Caste
5.
Ways of Remembering: A Study on the Use of Collective Memory in Stranger
Things and Miss Marvel
6. Memory Studies in Korean Drama: Exploring the
Intersections of Memory Through a Theoretical Interdisciplinary Lens
7.
Making Village Alive in the City: Understanding Village-ness among Gurjars in
Madanpur Khadar PART III: Self/Other Self -Memory and Analysis of Identity
8.
Memoirs Doubting Memory: An Exploration of Tara Westover's Educated
9. Memory
in Question: Decoding the Self in Select Indian Penal Autobiographies
10.
Affect : Human Libraries as an Intersection of Memory and Affect Archiving
11. An Analysis of Emotional and Media Factors of the Flashbulb Memory on
Recollection of YSRs Demise: A Comparative Study PART IV: Partition-
Analyzing the Bloodiest
Chapter of Indian Subcontinent
12. Analysing the Role
of Memory in Oral History with respect to Urvashi Butalias The Other Side of
Silence
13. Reconstructing Memoryscapes: The Role of Imagined Homelands in
Post-Partition Bengali Memoirs
14. Memories of 1947: A Journey from Oral to
Digital
15. Unravelling the Narratives of Partition: A Study of Individual
and Historical Memories in Film PART V: Voices of Memory Studies from India
16. Memory of 1971 War in Indian Cinema: A lieux de mémoire
17. Stor(y)ing
Memory and Totam : Perspectives Towards Oral Narratives
18. The Patua and
Patachitra: Religiosity, Tradition and Memory in Scroll Paintings of Bengal
19. Memories of Her-stories as Feminist Praxis in K. R. Meeras Hangwoman
PART VI: Perspectives of Memory from World Literature
20. Exploration of
Memory in Oonya Kempadoos All Decent Animals and Buxton Spice
21. Memory,
Expectation and Failure in the Theatre and Film productions of Tennessee
Williams The Glass Menagerie: A Case Study
22. Stories To Stay, Stories To
Subvert: The Role Of Collective Communal Memory In The Native-Canadian
Struggle For Resistance Against Colonisation
23. Revisiting African Origins
through Memory Codes: A Study of Alex Haleys Roots
D. Sudha Rani is an Associate Professor of English with over 30 years of extensive teaching/research experience in English language, literature, and memory studies. She is an active scholar and has presented and published a lot of research work along with nine books that are prescribed in different universities and colleges. Since her research area is Memory Studies, she established the Centre for Memory Studies and Storytelling at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous), Hyderabad.
Rachel Irdaya Raj is an Assistant Professor in English and has two decades of teaching/research experience in English language, literature, soft skills, memory studies, gender studies, research methodology, and English for academic writing. She has contributed towards content development for listening skills tests for Osmania University and co-authored textbooks for undergraduates at Osmania University, Mahatma Gandhi University, and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University. She is involved in establishing the Centre for Memory Studies and Storytelling at VNR Vignana Jyothi Institute of Engineering and Technology (Autonomous), Hyderabad.
