... to envision the digital afterlife as it could be, but perpetually reenacting the trials of life here on earth. collective memory COVID 19 pandemic death Facebook technology company hospitals death in transcendence videos digital crowdfunding sites digital self the Internet digital technology...

... issues of gender at the very heart of the project of creating an American Yiddish newspaper. However, they also reveal the complex intersections and divergences between the history and historical memory of the Yiddish press, as Hobson’s recounting of her parents’ lives was often filtered through biased...

...Memory researchers often use the terms veridical (true) memory and false memory to contrast situations where a memory report is consistent with, versus different from, the original experienced event. In this chapter, what it means for a memory to be false...

...Chapter 4 examines the memory projects that have emerged in response to the so called global war on terror and attempts to memorialize those who have died and been injured in those post-9/11 wars over the last two decades. It argues that the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have largely been...

...Chapter 5 analyzes the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, which opened in 2018, an indication of a shift in national memorial culture, effectively making them a bookend of the post-9/11 era in ways that signal a new era to follow. The lynching...

... the army's coercive mechanisms ensured that at least some of them fought in battle, other men rarely acknowledged them as comrades. The remainder of the chapter deals with the how the historical memory of the Civil War has evolved in the decades after the conflict. 3rd Ohio Cavalry and attack on officer...

... Nostalgia offers not only a means for reveling in nostalgic memories of a pre-Castro Cuba but also a nostalgia for nostalgia—a longing for a feeling that could be counted on to rally a community historically fractured across class and political lines. The event is a kind of monument in motion...

... meant taking the child’s standpoint, something often undertaken in women’s writing, which invoked memories of their own experiences of punishment when a child. A new sensibility arose whereby seeking to please and reward the child in place of punishing began to gain favor, privileging the presumed wants...

...This chapter argues that using memory as a primary source in child-centered research on the recent past explicates the interconnection between the child and the adult in yet another distinct way. In particular, the story of the “hidden children” of World War II offers keen insights into how...

... then considers how viewers regard (or disregard) perpetrators' pictures, particularly in memorial spaces commemorating victims, and in particular pictures of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building taken shortly after the bombing as well as McVeigh's perp walk footage. She also examines the reactions of family...

...This chapter examines the trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols as well as the McVeigh jury's visit to Oklahoma City that illustrated the courtroom's role as an essential but incomplete site for memory work. It first considers Nichols' federal trial, the jury issues surrounding his trial...

..., involuntary relationships that chained them to the perpetrators. It also describes McVeigh's execution as a modern spectacle and a site of memory work, his gaze prior to his execution which was interpreted by witnesses as confrontational or defiant, and images of his execution. omission in Oklahoma City...

... of both modernity and late modernity. In its analysis of the Emerging Church movement, the book highlights a variety of themes ranging from sense of place and urbanism to dialogue, improvisation, irony, embodiment, narrative, textuality, community, ecclesiology, social memory, denominationalism...

... and new historical occasion to reflect upon the Vietnam War. It then offers a theorization of Vietnamization as a heuristic device to elaborate why cultural memory and discourse surrounding the Vietnam War remain conflicted as tied to the collapse of South Vietnam and its inability to protect and save...

...This chapter explores the emergence of critical trauma studies and locates the current volume in historical, intellectual context. Covering Holocaust studies, trauma theory, memory, and more, the chapter describes what “critical” brings to the study of trauma. The authors preview each of the book’s...

... critical psychoanalytic studies critical race theory gender studies identity narrative Stevens Maurice storytelling visual culture critical trauma theory subjectivity trauma intersectionality memory recovery therapy violence body social justice biopolitics critical trauma studies family...

...Bahareh: Signing Without Words in An Iranian Prison is a meditation on language, memory, and imagination, as well as an attempt to shed light on the intricacies of a wide range of events and experiences often encompassed under a simplified notion of traumatic. It tells the story of an encounter...

... between academic writing and personal narrative. affect Allison Dorothy childhood silence narrative agency trauma feminism recovery sexuality social justice disability rape Writing Trauma Pain Memory Almost twenty years ago, I started writing an essay called “A Cure for Bitterness.” I...

...This chapter brings together an array of Korean War novels, authored by US writers of color, to engage in a counterhegemonic project of cultural memory that explores the conflict’s significance for African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Asian Americans: Toni Morrison’s Home...