You can manage bookmarks using lists, please log in to your user account for this.
Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Remaking memory and the agency of the aesthetic
Contributor:
Rigney, Ann
Published:
SAGE Publications, 2021
Published in:
Memory Studies, 14 (2021) 1, Seite 10-23
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/1750698020976456
ISSN:
1750-6980;
1750-6999
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
This article examines the role of the creative arts in renegotiating the border between memorable and unmemorable lives. It does so with specific reference to the (un)forgetting of the colonial soldiers in European armies during World War One. Focussing on the role of aesthetic form in generating memorability, it shows how the creative use of a medium can help redefine the borders of imagined communities by commanding the attention of individual subjects and hence providing conditions for a cognitive and affective opening to the memory of strangers. It concludes that future studies of transformations in collective memory should take a multiscalar approach which takes into account both the shifting social frameworks of memory and the small changes that occur in the micro-politics of viewing and reading.