Transnational Memories

The ‘transnational turn’, which is challenging bounded views on national belonging, also opens up promising perspectives for memory studies. It fosters a rethinking and reconfiguring of national memories in the context of transnational connectedness. My sketch of seven types of transnational memorie...

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Published in:European review (Chichester, England) England), 2014-10, Vol.22 (4), p.546-556
Main Author: Assmann, Aleida
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activism
Artists
Borders
Cultural identity
Focus: Transnational Memory in the Hispanic World
History
Memory
Migration
Transnationalism
Trauma
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Summary:The ‘transnational turn’, which is challenging bounded views on national belonging, also opens up promising perspectives for memory studies. It fosters a rethinking and reconfiguring of national memories in the context of transnational connectedness. My sketch of seven types of transnational memories points to different empirical contexts in which states, politicians, jurists, activists, artists and scholars go beyond national borders and interests to conceptualise new forms of belonging, solidarity and cultural identification in a world characterised by streams of migration and the lingering impact of traumatic and entangled pasts.
ISSN:1062-7987
1474-0575
DOI:10.1017/S1062798714000337